Show:
Questions
Responses
Print
People
World War I
Roaring Twenties
Thirties
This and That
100
This South Carolinian opened a school for girls and helped to write the United Nations Charter.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
100
WWI in Europe began with this act.
What is assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
100
Another name for the Roaring Twenties.
What is the Jazz Age?
100
The day that the stock market crashed was called this.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
The name used to describe the large numbers of African Americans who left the state.
What is the Great Migration?
200
Julia Peterkin won this prize for her novel, Scarlet Sister Mary.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
200
The US entered the war in part because of attacks by these on ships.
What are U-boats? Unterseeboots
200
The popular dance that originated in South Carolina
What is the Charleston?
200
FDR gave these talks on the radio to explain his programs to the American people
What are fireside chats?
200
The construction of these brought tourists to the beach.
What are highways?
300
George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward collaborated to write this American opera.
What is Porgy and Bess?
300
This large army base in Columbia opened during WWI.
What is Fort Jackson?
300
Speakeasies and bootleggers made money illegally due to this law.
What is prohibition (or 18th amendment)?
300
This is the collective name for FDR's programs.
What is the New Deal?
300
The Social Security Act provides these for retired persons.
What are pensions?
400
During WWI this South Carolinian ran the War Industries Board.
Who is Bernard Baruch?
400
African Americans fought in these types of units
What is segregated?
400
This was a flourishing of Southern art and literature.
What is the Southern Literary Renaissance?
400
This project produced electric power by constructing large dams.
What is Santee Cooper?
400
This word beginning with "over" describes a cause of the Great Depression.
What is overproduction (or overspeculation)?
500
William Henry Johnson from Florence was famous for his paintings during this artistic movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
500
The reason why many returning GIs never came back to SC
What is more opportunities up north?
500
This nasty creature destroyed South Carolina's cotton crop.
What is the boll weevil?
500
This program built state parks in SC.
What is the CCC?
500
This New Deal program helps protect bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?