19th Century Progressives

Who was known as the Redeemer because he brought the Democrats back into power in SC after Reconstruction?

• John C. Calhoun

• Wade Hampton

• Pierce Butler

• Francis Marion

Taking away someone's legal rights is called

• desegregate

• disenfranchise

• segregate

• enfranchise

Which of the following is NOT an example of how African-American voters were disenfranchised?

• literacy tests

• gerrymandering

• 15th Amendment

• poll taxes

Before the Civil War, the economy of the Old South was based on what economic activity?

• finance

• industry

• agriculture

• education

After the Civil War, the economy of the New South became based on a mix of which of the following economic activities?

• health care and research

• transportation and construction

• marketing and manufacturing

• agriculture and industry

The requirement to pay a fee in order to vote is known as which of the following?

• import tariff

• sales tax

• income tax

• poll tax

Creating zones of voters by mapping unfair Congressional district lines is a process called...

• gerrymandering

• campaigning

• surveying

• registration

What political party was Benjamin Tillman a part of?

• Democrat

• Populist

• Republican

• Dixiecrat

Who did Ben Tillman promise to protect?

• farmers

• politicians

• industrialists

• immigrants

The coalition of farmers that was founded to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the US after the Civil War was known as which of the following?

• The Grange

• Scalawags

• Freedmen

• Carpetbaggers