Units 1 & 2
Unit 1: This is how many geographic regions South Carolina has.
What is 6?
This person began writing the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Southern region of the U.S. had an economy based on this.
What is agriculture and cash crops?
This was a system where former slaves would work on farms in exchange for a "share" of a crop.
What was sharecropping?
This thing would connect the western territories the the U.S., helping the west grow.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Unit 1: Rivers in coastal South Carolina consists of this.
What is mud, salt marshes, and marsh grass?
These two countries fought in the French and Indian War.
What is France and England?
This person invented the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was when the government tried to repair the South and assist former slaves.
What was the reconstruction era?
These are people that moved to the U.S. from other countries.
What are immigrants?
Unit 2: People came to South Carolina because of this.
What is religious freedom?
After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Presidents of states would now be called this.
What is a governor?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This group attacked blacks and killed them.
What is the KKK?
South Carolina passed this law that made a voter put a ballot in the proper box in order to be counted.
What is the eight box law?
Unit 2: King Charles II granted eight Englishmen to be apart of this.
What is Lord Proprietors.
This was the name of South Carolina's new government.
What is the Committee of 99?
In 1850, the U.S. passed this law requiring all slaves to be returned to their masters if they were caught escaping.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
White farmers that supported efforts to help former slaves.
What is a scalawag?
This law required that blacks and whites go to different schools and for them to be segregated.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Unit 2: This person wrote the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.
Who is John Locke?
This person was the first president of South Carolina.
Who is John Rutledge?
These sisters worked to end slavery in the state of South Carolina.
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
This person led the Northern Army.
Who is William Sherman?
These people were called this because cotton fibers from mills got stuck in their hair.
What are lint heads?