5.4 - 5.8 Quiz

1.

1 point

Clemson University was started by Ben Tillman to help educate white farmers. Due to the clause "separate but equal" a college for African Americans needed to be opened also. What college was created to meet this need?

University of South Carolina

College of Charleston

Claflin College

South Carolina State

2.

1 point

What was responsible for ending the production of rice in SC, which was the end for "Carolina Gold?"

Tobacco took over

Cotton was too valuable not to plant

Earthquake near Charleston

Hurricanes

3.

1 point

What term means to take away a person's right to vote?

Disenfranchise

Corruption

Dispensary

Suffrage

4.

1 point

Children were used in many textile mills in South Carolina. Why were children so valuable to textile mill owners?

They could pay them little and had small hands to fix broken threads.

They could easily replace them if they were hurt or sick.

They could make them work faster with threats, intimidation and violence.

They could keep them out of school and would not have to hire teachers.

5.

1 point

What was the main reason immigrants did not come to SC?

Jim Crow laws were in effect.

Strict immigration laws in the state prevented them from moving here.

Army worm and boll weevil had attacked all crops.

No jobs available.

6.

1 point

How did the Homestead Act impact the West?

Reduced the price of land to those individuals who moved west.

Provided free transportation on the transcontinental railroad to those moving out west.

Allowed immigrants direct access to farm land in the west.

Gave free land to those individuals who moved out west.

7.

1 point

How were Robert Cooper and Richard Manning similar?

Both were active in the women's suffrage movement.

Both were philanthropists who made important contributions to South Carolina.

Both were Governors who made improvements in South Carolina.

Both were Progressive presidents of the United States.

8.

1 point

South Carolina was still producing a lot of cotton during the late 1800s. Since there was too much cotton and not enough demand for it, what happened to prices?

Prices for cotton were falling.

Prices for cotton remained the same.

Prices for cotton were rising.

Prices for cotton fell and rose.

9.

1 point

Clemson University was founded to help out which group of South Carolinians?

Politicians

Textile workers

Plantation owners

Farmers

10.

1 point

Who was elected Governor of South Carolina because he supported small farmers, preached white supremacy and was a member of the Populist Party?

Lewis Hine

Wade Hampton

Ben Tillman

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

1 point

What is the term for a person who moves from one country to another?

Nomad

Suffragist

Immigrant

Migrant

12.

1 point

To challenge a Louisiana law, a man who was 1/8th black was purposely told to ride in an all white train car. He sued the state and the case made it all way up to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that this was legal which set up "separate but equal" as well as Jim Crow Laws. What was the name of this court case?

Dred Scott Case

Plessy v. Ferguson

Elmore v. Rice

Brown v. Board of Education

13.

1 point

Many textile mill worker children came down with lung problems. What is the name for this deadly disease?

Tuberculosis

Lung cancer

Asthma

Scoliosis

14.

1 point

SC passed many laws to keep African Americans from voting. Some of these laws kept poor whites from voting as well. What was passed that stated people had to read and interpret the U.S. Constitution?

Gerrymandering

Literacy test

Poll tax

Eight box law

15.

1 point

How were poor and illiterate whites able to get around the literacy test and the poll tax?

The grandfather clause protected them and gave them the right to vote.

The KKK ensured this group would be able to vote.

Ben Tillman and the Populists did not need them to vote.

The 15th Amendment protected all people's right to vote.

16.

1 point

Lewis Hine took photos of children working in unsafe conditions. His photos were used to make changes to child labor laws. Lewis Hine was considered a ____________________________ due to his work as a journalist.

progressive

reformer

muckraker

lint head

17.

1 point

In 1915, South Carolina made it illegal to produce, buy, sell, or consume alcohol. What is the term for this?

Suffrage

Prohibition

Temperance

Dispensary

18.

1 point

Farmers often lived lonely lives. In the late 1800s a social organization was started for these farmers. What was the name for the social organization?

Grange

Populists

Democrats

Dispensary

19.

1 point

Textile mills provided a much needed economic boost to SC. What were three other products SC produced during the late 1800s?

Phosphates for fertilizers, indigo and rice

Cottonseed oil, lumber, and indigo

Lumber, phosphate for fertilizers, and rice

Cottonseed oil, lumber, and phosphate for fertilizers

20.

1 point

Why did textile mills need to be built alongside rivers?

Mills needed to quickly send textiles by boat to their distributors.

Mills needed fresh water for their workers to drink during the day.

Mills needed them to transport their workers to and from home by boat.

Mills needed water power to run their machines.

21.

1 point

Why did textile mills NOT provide jobs for African Americans?

Due to Exodusters

Due to Slave Codes

Due to Jim Crow Laws

Due to Homestead Act

22.

1 point

How did immigrants impact politics?

Immigrants voted for those people who found them a job.

Immigrants had no impact since they could not vote due to strict literacy tests.

Immigrants voted for those people who gave them money.

Immigrants voted for those people who spoke their native language.

23.

1 point

Suffrage means

to suffer.

the right to vote.

limiting alcohol.

educating young people.

24.

1 point

Who was elected Governor of SC, ending Reconstruction and putting the Redeemers back in power?

Ben Tillman

Wade Hampton

Daniel Chamberlain

Theodore Roosevelt

25.

1 point

What was the nickname given to African Americans who left the South and moved to towns in Kansas and in the West?

Lint heads

Immigrants

Homesteaders

Exodusters