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Compromises
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People
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This compromise gave more political power to the back country of South Carolina
What is the Compromise of 1808
100
This amendment freed the slaves
What is the 13th Amendment
100
This supreme court case declared that Jim Crow laws were constitutional as long as all facilities were "separate but equal"
What is Plessey V. Ferguson
100
This southern partisan band leader was known as the "Swamp Fox"
Who is Francis Marion
100
this New Deal program provided jobs to young men building state parks and national forests
What is the CCC
200
This Compromise put an end to fighting between those who wanted the Virginia plan and those who wanted the New Jersey plan
What is the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise
200
This amendment gave freed African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment
200
This supreme court case over turned the Missouri Compromise when it declared that slaves were property NOT people
What is the Dred Scott Decision
200
This South Carolina politician and war hawk argued for states rites to nullify national laws during the Nullification crisis of 1832
Who is John C. Calhoun
200
This new deal program helped single mothers, children, the handicapped and the elderly.
What is the SSA
300
This compromise promised South Carolinians that the federal government would not put a tax on imports or exports or put limitations on the international slave trade for at least 20 years.
What is the Commerce Compromise
300
This Amendment granted citizenship to freed African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment
300
This court case put an end to all white primaries
What is Elmore V. Rice
300
This South Carolinian was a supreme court justice, senator, and secretary of state under FDR.
Who is James F. Byrnes
300
This New Deal program provided electricity to rural farms in South Carolina.
What is Rural Electrification Act (REA)
400
This compromise put an end to fighting between those who wanted to count slaves as part of the population and those who did not.
What is the 3/5 compromise
400
This progressive amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment
400
This court case was over the inequality of schools in Clarenden County SC and lead to the success of the Brown V Board of Education supreme court case.
What is Briggs V Elliot
400
This South Carolina politician ran for president on the Dixiecrat ticket, wrote the Southern Manifesto in response to the Brown V Board decision, and eventually became a Republican.
Who is Strom Thurmond
400
This New Deal program created lake Marion and Moultrie when hydro-electric dams were built on the Santee and Cooper rivers to provide electricity to South Carolina.
What is the Santee Cooper Electrification Project (SCEP)
500
This compromise admitted California into the union as a free state, allowed those states ceded to the United States after the Mexican American war to vote on slavery using popular sovereignty, and created a new fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850
500
This progressive amendment made the creation and distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment
500
This supreme court case put an end to segregated schools in the United States
What is Brown V Board of Education
500
This enlightenment thinker was responsible for writing the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. His ideas were also used in the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke
500
This New Deal organization reformed working conditions by making a minimum wage and limiting working hours.
What is the NRA