People
Court Cases
Civil Rights
Early 20th Century
Voting
100
Fought to protect Slavery by arguing for States' Rights
Who is John C. Calhoun?
100
Sued for his freedom as a Slave but lost his case when the Supreme Court said that Slaves were property and not US Citizens
Who is Dred Scott?
100
Ran for President as a Dixiecrat when President Truman ended segregation in the US Army
Who is Harry Truman?
100
CCC, WPA, PWA, Social Security Act, Santee Cooper
What are New Deal programs?
100
made it difficult for Freedmen to vote due their illiteracy and being unable to figure out where to correctly place the ballot
What is the 8 Box Law?
200
Thomas Lynch, Thomas Heyward, Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton
Who are the SC signers of the Declaration of Independence
200
Sued over no buses provided to the Black students of Clarendon County while the county provided buses to the White students
What is Briggs v. Elliott?
200
Used a strategy of Jail, No Bail in a lunch counter sit-in
What is the Friendship 9?
200
Cars and better roads made this become a huge industry especially along SC's coast
What is Tourism?
200
Allowed the Democratic party to dominate politics for decades
What is the White Primary?
300
Donated land to SC for the purpose of creating Land Grant college to teach Agriculture and Engineering
Who is Thomas Green Clemson?
300
Ended Separate but Equal or Segregation in a case about public schools (not a SC case)
What is Brown v. Education?
300
Led to the deaths of 3 students in a protest over a bowling alley near SC State University
What is the Orangeburg Massacre?
300
Workers killed at Chiquola Mills in Honea Path in 1934
What is the General Textile strike of 1934?
300
Used intimidation and murder to win the election of 1876 for Wade Hampton to become Governor
Who are the Red Shirts?
400
Politician who fought to defend Segregation
What is Strom Thurmond?
400
Ended the White Primary
What is Elmore v. Rice?
400
Political party that SC White citizens were loyal to for decades since they controlled the state's politics in what was known as the White Primary
What is the Democratic Party?
400
SC politician who aided Franklin Roosevelt during both the Great Depression and World War 2
Who is James F. Byrnes?
400
had the SC Constitution written to use poll taxes and literacy tests to eliminate Black voters and Republican voters
Who is Ben Tillman?
500
Executed for planning a Slave rebellion in the 1800s
Who is Denmark Vesey?
500
Allowed Segregation or Jim Crow laws to be legal for decades
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Matthew Perry, Modjeska Simpkins, Septima Clark
Who are Civil Rights leaders?
500
Member of FDR's Black Cabinet
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
Allowed Poor and Illiterate White voters to be able to vote
What is the Grandfather clause?
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