Shifting Political Views in SC

Multiple Choice

Following Reconstruction, what was the South referred to due strictly voting Democrat until the 1960s?

• Solid South

• Democratic Deep South

• The Dixiecrats

• The Confederates

Multiple Choice

What led South Carolinians to become suspicious of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal policies?

• Roosevelt's policies would give all New Deal jobs to African Americans.

• Roosevelt's policies would end farming in the South.

• Roosevelt's policies would attract African American voters.

• Roosevelt's policies would move industry out of the South.

Multiple Choice

What actions by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led many southern Democrats to abandon the Democratic Party?

• Their decision to drop the nuclear bomb on Japan, killing hundreds of thousands.

• Their policy of decreased spending on social and economic activities in order to end the Great Depression.

• Their support of civil rights legislation that attracted African American voters.

• Their plan to change America from an agriculture based economy to an industrial nation.

Multiple Choice

What caused many of the delegates from the South to walk out of the National Democratic Convention in 1948?

• Democratic support of women's rights.

• Democratic support of disfranchisement of African Americans.

• Democratic support of anti-poll tax legislation and federal protection against lynching.

• Democratic support of industrializing the South.

Multiple Choice

Why was the Dixiecrat Party created?

• The Democratic Party had fallen apart and split into several different political parties

• The Democratic Party began to push for immigration reform which southern states did not support.

• The Democratic Party began supporting gun control which angered the southern states.

• The Democratic Party began supporting African American civil rights as well as voting rights.

Multiple Choice

What impact did President Kennedy and President Johnson, both Democrats, actions in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 have on the political party?

• Thurmond and other southern Democrats began to be leaders in the Democrat Party.

• Thurmond and other southern Democrats began to change to the Republican Party.

• Thurmond and other southern Democrats continued to support the Democrat Party.

• Thurmond and other southern Democrats began to change to the Green Party

Multiple Choice

What did Richard Nixon promise that appealed to conservative Southerners who feared the backlash of the black power movement?

• Expansion of the right to vote to all American citizens

• Restricting the rights of immigrants

• Restore law and order

• Gerrymandering of Republican held states