Working on the Railroad
Immigrant soup
"Tillman" the fields
farmers' demand
textile industry
100
Railroad that stretched from coast to coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
Where immigrants of a same race lived so they wouldn't be judged.
What is ethnic neighborhoods?
100
Man who became SC governor in 1890.
What is Ben Tillman?
100
A social organization designed to alleviate isolation of farm life.
What is the Grange?
100
Village where mill families lived.
What is a mill village?
200
SC regional railroad hub served by over 100 trains daily.
What is Columbia?
200
The founder and editor of The State newspaper came from here.
What is Cuba?
200
Interracial marriages were made illegal because of this SC document.
What is the Constitution of 1895?
200
Political party who represented the farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
200
nickname for mill workers.
What is lint heads?
300
Country in Asia from which immigrants who laid railroad tracks came from.
What is China?
300
Immigrants were attracted by this act which offered free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
This forbid alchohol in the United States.
What is prohibition?
300
System of agriculture that was also called tenant farming.
What is sharecropping?
300
Woven fabric.
What is textile?
400
Man who created a trust to supply oil for trains.
What/who is John Rockefeller?
400
Neighborhood of the country who created pizza.
What is Little Italy?
400
When some land was left to Tillman in a man's will, Tillman created this college there in his honor.
What is Clemson University?
400
Main source of profit that helped both the textile industry and farmers.
What is cotton?
400
Most of the textile industry in SC was in this area.
What is the Up Country?
500
Act that Congress passed to help the building of the railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
500
Where Polish immigrants lived.
What is Polonia?
500
Tillman reduced time worked in mills to this weekly amount.
What is 66 hours per week?
500
Hurricanes that ended production of 'Carolina Gold.'
What are the Hurricanes of 1893?
500
Large supply of cotton + ________ +huge supply of labor = Growth of SC textile industry.
What is rivers and streams for water power?
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