South Carolina History: Civil War Reconstruction and Progressive Era

How did the expansion of railroads during the Second Industrial Revolution impact South Carolina?

• The railroad industry only expanded across the West and the South was unaffected

• The Union Pacific railroads met in SC to create a transcontinental railroad

• Business moved out of the state because of opportunity in the West

• Townes and cities in the state were linked together by nearly 2,800 miles of tracks.

What problem in mill work was addressed by Progressives in South Carolina?

• Progressives pushed for the integration of textile mills in SC

• Progressives helped textile mill operators lobby got a longer work day for laborers(workers) at the mill

• Progressives successfullynshut down all textile mills in SC

• Progressives were successful in passing a law that set a minimum age for children to work in the mills

The leader of the Bourbons or the Redeemers was

• Wade Hamptom

• Richard Manning

• Leonard Galloway

• Ben Tillman

Scalawags were

• representatives of the US congress who supported reconstruction

• Northerners who supported Reconstruction

• members of the military

• Southerners who supported Reconstruction

European immigration in the 19th century was lower in South Carolina than it was in other areas because the state

• was still going through the Reconstruction Era

• Lacked major and widespread Industrial opportunities

• steam ships were not able to reach ports in SC

• foreign-born people were not allowed to live there

name given by southerners to

northerners who

moved to the South during Reconstruction

Southern writers who supported reconstruction

after the Civil War

this is the year that

the Civil War began

• 1865

• 1862

• 1860

• 1861

The period of recovery and rebuilding of

the U.S.

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

Document signed by Abraham Lincoln

freeing the slaves in the “rebellious states”

 in 1863