Post WWI

South Carolina benefitted from World War I for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: (8-6.1)

• New training facilities came to SC, bringing money and jobs.

• The birth rate went up as the war began, creating a new generation of workers.

• Farmers experienced increased prices and demand for cotton to supply the war effort.

• A renewed sense of nationalism spurred people to purchase bonds and sign up for the draft.

In addition to the Harlem Renaissance, there was also a Southern Literary Renaissance. Authors and poets like ______________ and _______________ celebrated South Carolina’s traditions and heritage. (8-6.2)

• Julia Peterkin and DuBose Heyward

• Louis Armstrong and J.R.R. Tolk

• Margaret Atwood and J. K. Rowling

• Dorothea Benton and Zora Neale Hurston

When South Carolina built dams throughout the state, the results were: (8-6.2)

• Electricity spreading to rural areas but not to cities, since cities were not built near water.

• Towns flooded and millions of people lost their homes, causing them to rebel and destroy the dams.

• Electricity became available in towns and cities, but did not stretch to rural areas.

• Farmers were able to use electricity to make their farms more profitable.

After the war, African Americans in South Carolina returned to: (8-6.1)

• A state that maintained the same racist views it held before the war.

• A community that held race riots against them, and the reemergence of the KKK

• A state that had changed its views on race relations.

• A community that ended Jim Crow segregation, and the emergence of a truly equal society.

Tourism surged in South Carolina due to all of the following EXCEPT: (8-6.2)

• The opening of hotels in Charleston.

• Northerners were still fighting against slavery in the south.

• The National Historic Preservation Movement.

• Travel being easier by the increased number of automobiles and desirable climate in the south.

Prohibition failed in part because it led to an increase in crime and corruption as ‘bootleggers’ and

‘moonshiners’ violated the law. (8-6.2)

• True

• False

Because of automobiles and the________________________, some people moved to the suburbs on the

outskirts of cities such as Columbia. (8-6.2)

• Trolley System

• Trains

• Boats

• Airplanes

Following World War I, South Carolina farmers suffered as demand for their crops plunged and so did

prices. The agricultural economy sagged further when, an insect pest, attacked the cotton crop. In some years, it

destroyed as much as one half of the crop. What insect was this? (8-6.3)

• the cotton mite

• the burrowing beetle

• the cotton worm

• the boll weevil

With plunging prices for their increasingly lower crop yields, farmers were unable to pay their debts.

Banks were failing in South Carolina even before the stock market crash of 1929 marked the beginning of

the_________________________. (8-6.3)

• Great Depression

• Great War

• Great Prosperity

• Great Cities

What method was used by mill owners to increase profits? (8-6.3)

• "sit down and start working"

• "stand up and deliver"

• “speed-up” and “stretch-out”

• ”step quick and stay long"