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SC History Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was one of the reasons that people were at unrest after the war? | War veterans were only paid $60 dollars for serving. |
| Who was president right after the war? | Harding |
| Who took over Harding's place as president? | Cooliage |
| In 1919 what happened? | Prohibition |
| 2 ways moral standards changed? | women smoked in publicwomen wore skirts to their knees |
| 2 famous authors | HemingwayFaulkner |
| What month did the Stock Market crash? | October |
| How many banks closed and took all the money for loans? | 5000 |
| by 1940 there were _______ textile mills with ______ workers. | 24095000 |
| Farm prices had already dropped but then ______ __________ hit destroying more than 50% of cotton crops. | boll weivle |
| ___________ did shady things to get elected governor. | Blease |
| ____________ defeats Blease for the senate seat. | Byrnes |
| _________ won a putlizer prize and wrote Scarlet Sister Mary | Peterkin |
| They sold ___________ ___________ to fund for highway departments | license plates |
| ____________ __________ passed a 26 million dollar bond to pay for roads. | General Assembly |
| _____________ is elected govenor | Johnston |
| _____________ was the biggest and fastest growing beach. | Myrtle |
| 1918 SC Ag is ______________ | 450 million dollars |
| 1932 SC Ag is _______________ | 60 million dollars |
| 2 businesses that did fine through the depression | Sonoco International Paper |
| _____________ is the new pres and comes up with the new deal | Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) |
| Minimum wage= | .30c/hour |
| No working labor under the age of ____ | 16 |
| The attacking of ________ ________ was what put us into WW1 | Pearl Harbor |
| When FDR died who became pres? | Truman |
| How did Truman end the war? | by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan |
| ________ built 14 state parks | CCC |
| ________ was the first park built | Cheraw |
| _______ ___________ _________ was the leader of the new deal | Mary Mecloud Bethune |
| Mary Mecloud Bethune opened a school called __________ | Bethune Cookman College |
| During the war SC sent _________ people to fight | 170000 |