Question | Answer |
What did the Conservative Democrats do to unite white South Carolinians? | Used ideas of the "old glory" of South Carolina |
Why were Wade Hampton's supporters called Redeemers? | They saved SC from the Republicans |
What was the purpose of laws such as the Eight Box Law, Poll Tax, and Grandfather Clause? | To disfranchise African Americans |
What were the purpose of Jim Crow Laws? | To discriminate against African Americans |
How did the industries of coal, steel, and oil aid the development of the North and West? | Provided needed items for the railroad industry |
What were three industries that developed in SC? | Cottonseed oil, phosphates, and lumber |
What did the majority of mills in SC produce? | Textiles |
How did SC mills help the economy of the state? | Provided jobs for South Carolinians |
What did SC mill owners do to attract workers? | Provided mill villages |
Why did mills develop in the Upcountry? | Due to its rivers and inexpensive labor |
How did overproduction affect farmers? | Prices decreased |
What political party emerged from the farmers' organizations? | Populist |
What group of South Carolinians did Ben Tillman support through his politics? | Poor white farmers |
How did Tillman work to provide better education for teachers and farmers? | Through land grant colleges of Winthrop and Clemson |
What natural disaster affected the cotton crop in SC? | Boll weevil |
What natural disaster wiped out rice fields and made the Low Country turn to tobacco as a cash crop? | Hurricane |
To what did the Homestead Act lead? | Increased settlement of the West |
Why did South Carolinians not move out west? | Lack of money |
Why did African Americans migrate to the North? | Discrimination, violence, and mill jobs not available to them in the South |
What effect did the European immigrants have on SC? | None because they did not immigrate to SC |
Due to European immigration in large northern cities, what group became politically powerful? | Political bosses |
Against whom did the concept of nativism discriminate? | Southern and Eastern Europeans |
What party arose from social problems due to the growth of cities and industrial working conditions? | Progressive |
What is a major issue that SC tried to address with the Child Labor Law? | Establish a minimum age |
What affect did the more conservative view in SC have on the Progressive Movement? | Little support for Progressive reforms |
Why did SC institute a compulsory attendance law? | To improve education in the state |
With what political party was Governor Richard Manning affliated? | Progressive |
Who was a national figure associated with the Progressives? | Teddy Roosevelt |
What amendment gave women the right to vote? | 19th Amendment |
What amendment satisfied the Temperance Movement? | 18th Amendment |
What amendment made former slaves citizens? | 14th Amendment |
What amendment established the federal income tax? | 16th Amendment |
What amendment abolished slavery? | 13th Amendment |
What amendment gave African American males the right to vote? | 15th Amendment |