Modern South Carolina (22-23)

Which group has taken the place of South Carolinians who left farming for other opportunities?

• Jewish refugees
• African Americans
• Hispanic migrant workers
• Midwesterns

South Carolina's economy shifted from one based on agriculture, to one based on what two things? (Choose 2 answers.)

• manufacturing/industry
• timber harvesting
• tourism
• oil production

Which of the following raised taxes to pay for remedial and advanced classes, higher teachers' salaries, early-childhood programs, and new state tests in order to improve public education?

• South Carolina Ready
• South Carolina Act 388
• Education Improvement Act
• Education Accountability Act

Which reform required each academic subject to have specific standards that would be tested for each grade level?

• South Carolina Ready
• South Carolina Act 388
• Education Improvement Act
• Education Accountability Act

What created a controversy because it changed school funding laws from home property taxes to businesses and increased the sales tax?

• South Carolina Ready
• South Carolina Act 388
• Education Improvement Act
• Education Accountability Act

Which of the following is NOT an incentive used by the South Carolina to recruit businesses from other states and countries?

• Tax breaks for companies.
• Low wages for workers.
• Opposition to labor unions.
• Laissez-faire business policies.

What does it mean to be a "right to work" state?

• Workers in that state have the right to work in any profession no matter their race.
• Workers in that state have the right to join a union in order to guarantee rights.
• Workers in that state have the right to receive equal pay no matter what their race.
• Workers in that state have the right to work in a factory without joining a union.

What was one of the leading seaports in the United States by the 1950s but needed to be deepened due to larger container ships coming in?

• Columbia
• Myrtle Beach
• Georgetown
• Charleston

South Carolina's demographics as the strong economy encouraged migration to the state, including which group of refugees from World War II?

• French Huguenots
• German expatriates
• Russian loyalists
• Jewish refugees

Inequity in the funding of rural and urban public-school districts in South Carolina was addressed in which court case?

• Loving v Virginia
• Abbeville v South Carolina
• Roe v Wade
• Brown v Board of Education