Reconstruction
This was the federal government’s attempt to rebuild and reform social and political systems in the south.
What is Reconstruction?
This plan split the former Confederacy into Military Districts. South Carolina was in District 2.
What are the Radical Republicans?
The conservative planter elite looked (up, or down) on the development of industry as less noble than their antebellum agricultural plantation society
What is down?
This movement became established in South Carolina, as in other parts of the South and in the Midwest because of poor economic conditions.
What is the Populist Movement?
These two presidents were known as Progressive Presidents.
Who are Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson?
The spark of the war was the assassination of him.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
An insect pest, did further damage to farmers as they destroyed cotton crops.
What is The boll weevil?
This group was under the control of the US Army and provided medical care, food, clothing, education, and protection from hostile whites who were angry about the results of the war. One of their biggest achievement was in Education
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This means to take away the right to vote.
What is Disenfranchise?
South Carolina had a ready supply of raw materials and changing attitudes about the development of industry led to the growth of this industry in the Upcountry
What is the Textile Industry?
The Conservatives Democrats, who were the political party in power, passed this that allowed creditors (banks) to take a farmer’s crop, which kept farmers in a continuous cycle of debt.
What is the Crop Lien Law?
Progressivism reached a large audience through the work of these type of journalists (journalists who expose the wrongs of society)
What is ‘muckraking’ journalists?
What were the MAIN reasons for World War 1?
M-Militarism
A-Alliances
I-Imperialism
N-Nationalism
Electricity from newly constructed dams such as the one at this lake would change home life as new appliances such as the washing machine and vacuum cleaner became available.
What is Lake Murray?
This was an agreement where the landowner provided seed, tools, and housing while the freedmen worked in the fields.
What is Sharecropping?
Gov. Wade Hampton of South Carolina was supported by a group known as this.
What are the Redshirts?
To further attract farmers to mill work, mill owners created these that provided homes, schools, churches, and stores in addition to jobs
What are Mill Villages?
Tillman supported the building of this University as an agricultural college and his opposition to the elitism of the University of South Carolina.
What is Clemson University?
He wrote the book the Jungle and brought out the problems in the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
These were two of the reason the United States joined the war.
What are the Zimmerman Telegram, and the sinking of the Lusitania (Unrestricted Submarine Warfare)?
Building hotels, developing the coastal areas, and preserving historic places became important to boost this industry.
What is Tourism?
His plan only required 10% of a state’s population to swear allegiance to the United States before they could write a new constitution and send representatives to Congress. By creating such an easy plan, he hoped to persuade the Confederate states to surrender and end the war. He also required states to recognize the end of slavery.
Who is Lincoln?
The Compromise of _______________ resulted in the recognition of the election of the Republican candidate___________ as president in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
What is 1877/Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
South Carolina’s stance as a ___________________state further supported the interests of management over workers.
what is Right to Work?
In the 1890s, alliances around the country united and formed the Populist Party, which supported these things (name one)
What are the control of railroads and banking, coinage of silver, and a system of federal farm loans.
Populists also wanted a popular election of Senators (17th Amendment), a secret ballot, and a fair income tax.
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Wilson's peace plan following World War 1 was known as this, however many of his ideas didn't go into the official treaty of Versailles. The one that did was the League of Nations that the US didn't join.
What are the 14 Points?
This renaissance was a renewed celebration of music (such as jazz), works of fiction, poetry, dance, and art created by African Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
These were the Reconstruction Amendments and they said the following.
The 13th Amendment freed all slaves in the United States and changed the social standing of African Americans.
The 14th Amendment was created and passed to protect the political and social rights of freedmen.
The 15th Amendment was passed to guarantee that all men regardless of race or previous condition of servitude could vote.
In this case, the Court ruled that “separate-but-equal” facilities satisfied the 14th Amendment’s requirement for equal protection under the law
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The Transcontinental Railroad was created by two different companies they were.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
South Carolina experienced a large earthquake in this year that was centered in Summerville, but destroyed much of Charleston. The city’s response to this natural disaster updated practices in construction, disaster preparedness, and scientific study.
What is 1886?
This amendment illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol
This Amendment ended Prohibition.
What is the 18th?
What is the 21st?
It was extremely controversial, and it was argued that it directly violated the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
What is The Sedition Act?
This (Charleston) Renaissance was the revival of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s, in response to those who said South Carolina had no culture.
What is the Southern Renaissance?