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Chapter 16
South Carolina History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What major change occurred in South Carolina politics after Wade Hampton III left the state to serve in Washington, D.C., as a senator? | Blacks lost the right to vote. |
| What U.S. Supreme Court case supported the idea of “separate but equal”? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Why did the popularity of the Grange decline? | It did not address the farmers’ economic needs. |
| What political party favored free and unlimited use of silver, a federal income tax, and government ownership of railroads and telephone and telegraph companies? | People’s |
| What did Benjamin Tillman believe would most benefit the farmers? | more agricultural education |
| What issue caused a break between Benjamin Tillman and Francis W. Dawson, the editor of the Charleston News and Courier? | the establishment of a separate agricultural school |
| Why was the provision of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 that required new voters to read (or have read) and interpret the U.S. Constitution unfair? | Evaluating interpretations was subjective, allowing for differences of opinion. |
| What caused the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898? | The battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor. |
| What was the first mail-order business in the United States? | Montgomery Ward |
| What was the main cause of the growth in South Carolina’s cities in the late 1800s? | the number of people looking for work |
| the number of people looking for work | Columbia |
| Columbia | Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam |
| Blacks attended separate schools in the South. This separation of the races is known as ____________________. | segregation |
| A national association of farmers, called the ____________________, was founded in 1867. | Grange |
| ____________________ occurs when the money supply increases rapidly and there are not enough goods and services on which to spend it. | Inflation |
| Many industrial workers joined organizations called ____________________ to bring about better wages and working conditions. | unions |
| Conservative South Carolinian who opposed political advancement for blacks | Martin Gray |
| Governor of South Carolina who organized volunteers to fight in the Spanish-American War | William H. Ellerbe |
| First Democrat to be elected president in forty years | Grover Cleveland |
| A governor of South Carolina as well as a U.S. senator who also established Clemson University | Benjamin Tillman |
| Developed a plan to redraw congressional districts to create one black district so that no more than one black could be elected to Congress | Samuel Dibble |
| Invented the phonograph, motion pictures, and the incandescent light | Invented the phonograph, motion pictures, and the incandescent light |
| Worked to improve the South Carolina state mental hospital | James W. Babcock |
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