Moving Into a New Century
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  • Question 1
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    Q. What was the effect of the boll weevil in South Carolina?
    answer choices
    It ate up many of the wooden textile mill buildings.
    It bit many children and caused an outbreak of disease.
    It invaded markets and shipping trains and destroyed food supplies.
    It invaded the cotton field and hurt the cotton economy. 
  • Question 2
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    Q. What effect did South Carolina's railroads have on agriculture?
    answer choices
    they helped farmers ship their goods
    people liked to ride trains for fun
    they provided a way for people to get to beaches
    people were tired of riding horse everywhere
  • Question 3
    30 seconds
    Q. Which group of people had fewer rights under segregation laws in the South following Reconstruction?
    answer choices
    Asian Americans
    African Americans
    Mexican Americans
    White Americans
  • Question 4
    30 seconds
    Q. What laws separated blacks from white after Reconstruction?
    answer choices
    Equality Code
    Fugitive Slave
    Jim Crow
    Slave Codes
  • Question 5
    30 seconds
    Q. What industry grew rapidly in South Carolina after the Civil War?
    answer choices
    textile 
    weapon
    food 
    cotton
  • Question 6
    30 seconds
    Q. How was the right to vote taken away from African Americans in the late 1800s?
    answer choices
    They had to own property.
    They had to pass a literacy test.
    They had to have a picture ID card, 
    They had to have been born in the county. 
  • Question 7
    30 seconds
    Q. Why were white men who could not read allowed to vote?
    answer choices
    They owned property.
    Their grandfathers had voted.
    They were veterans of the Civil War.
    They were granted the right by the 19th amendment.
  • Question 8
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    Q. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, what type of transportation helped the textile industry to grow by carrying fabric and thread to places across the country?
    answer choices
    automobile 
    buggy 
    railroad
    ships
  • Question 9
    30 seconds
    Q. What even caused the growth of the textile mills in South Carolina?
    answer choices
    Great Depression
    Roaring Twenties
    Jim Crow laws
    World War I
  • Question 10
    30 seconds
    Q. Why were the textile mills built around fast flowing rivers?
    answer choices
    The rivers were used to ship the textiles to other cities. 
    Cotton was washed in the rivers before it en.tered the mills
    Rivers provided hydroelectric power to the mills.
    Mill workers used rivers to bathe in and drink.
  • Question 11
    30 seconds
    Q. The boll weevil destroyed cotton crops. Did this cause the textile industry to rise or fall?
    answer choices
    Rise
    Fall
  • Question 12
    30 seconds
    Q. Why did many forms of technology and  inventions not have  a big impact on  SC?
    answer choices
    Many people in SC could not afford them or could not get service where they lived.
    The state government passed laws that did not allow people to use new inventions.
    Most people did not want the new inventions or feel they weere necessary. 
    There was no electricity in SC.
  • Question 13
    30 seconds
    Q. Soldiers needed uniforms during World War 1.  Did this cause the textile industry to rise or fall?  
    answer choices
    Rise
    Fall
  • Question 14
    30 seconds
    Q. More people started buying man-made textiles.  Did this cause the textile industry to rise or fall?  
    answer choices
    Rise
    Fall
  • Question 15
    30 seconds
    Q. Many people lost money and were out of work during the Great Depression.    Did this cause the textile industry to rise or fall?  
    answer choices
    Rise
    Fall
  • Question 16
    30 seconds
    Q. Soldiers needed uniforms during World War 2.  Did this cause the textile industry to rise or fall?  
    answer choices
    Rise
    Fall
  • Question 17
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    Q. What places were segregated in SC in the early 20th century?
    answer choices
    restaurants
    movie theaters
    trains
    all of these places
  • Question 18
    30 seconds
    Q. What is this invention?
    answer choices
    telephone
    streetcar
    automobile 
  • Question 19
    30 seconds
    Q. What is this invention?
    answer choices
    telephone
    streetcar
    automobile
  • Question 20
    30 seconds
    Q. What is this invention?
    answer choices
    telephone
    streetcar
    automobile
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