Industrialism and Progressive Movement S C - co-opted 2020

1915 – South Carolina approved a motion to prohibit the sale of all alcoholic beverages

1915 – The General Assembly passed the state's first compulsory education legislation

1916 – The General Assembly passed a child labor law that raised the minimum age for employment to fourteen

1918- The General Assembly passed legislation allowing women to practice law

All of these were highlights of the tenure of Governor Richard Irvine Manning III from 1915 to 1919. Based on these events, Manning was MOST likely

• a Populist governor.

• a one-term governor.

• a Republican politician.

• a Progressive politician.

Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

This amendment significantly increased the power of American voters by

• allowing citizens to vote every six years.

• allowing citizens to directly elect their Senators.

• preventing poll taxes from being levied against black voters.

• granting women the right to vote in federal and state elections.

Which progressive cause would have been MOST likely to have been supported by a member of the the Equal Suffrage League of South Carolina?

• women's voting rights

• prohibition of alcohol

• limitations on child labor

• restrictions on immigration

Which of these was a characteristic of the Progressive movement?

• constant pressure to reduce government regulation and control of business

• efforts to increase the control held by the nation's elite, upper class citizens

• passage of Civil Rights legislation to end segregation and discrimination in the south

• work towards the removal of corrupt influences on local, state, and national government

Which one of the following was the most significant source of urban population growth from 1890-1920?

• the elevator

• immigration

• elimination of small pox

• the establishment of suburbs

Which factor would have had the LEAST impact in causing the so-called "Great Migration" of African Americans in much of the 20th century?

• the South's relatively poor economy

• fewer agricultural jobs in the South

• more industrial and manufacturing jobs in the North than in the South

• Jim Crow laws banning African-Americans from most types of employment in the South

Which of these statements BEST describes a population trend of South Carolina during the late 19th Century?

• immigrants from Ireland flooded into the state

• African Americans moved to states in the north

• people around the Southeast moved into South Carolina for farming job

• textile industries failed to make profits and keep workers in South Carolina

"The Great Migration" of the 20th century could best be described as

• a mass movement of political refugees from Asia.

• the political refugees from Cuba and Latin America.

• the waves of immigrant from eastern and central Europe.

• a movement of southern African Americans to the West and North.

The National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909. Given the year, with which of these movements would it be MOST associated?

• Populist Movement

• Free Soil Movement

• Gilded Age Movement

• Progressive Movement

Resisted radical Reconstruction in South Carolina

· His supporters were called Red Shirts

· Became the first Democrat elected as governor after Reconstruction (1876)

· Was known as the "Savior of South Carolina"

These statements are describing

• Wade Hampton.

• John C. Calhoun.

• William Simpson.

• Daniel H. Chamberlain.