WorksheetsUnit 9 Test Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What condition for voting was eliminated by the 15th Amendment?
Ability to read and interpret the Constitution
A tax to be paid upon voting
The skin color of the voter
These maps show the railroad lines in two different years.
How did the railroad industry change between 1860 and 1880?
More tracks were laid in the West/Midwest
More tracks connected the US to Canada
Fewer tracks were laid in the South
This graph compares the African American population of four cities in 1910 and 1920.
What conclusion can be drawn from this graph?
African Americans moved away from Detroit.
The African American population of northern cities grew.
Many African Americans migrated to the south.
Why did Lewis Hine publish this photograph?
to encourage people to support laws that would end child labor
to end segregated working conditions
to encourage people to buy clothing from the mills
This is an ad for an item that was popular in South Carolina in the 1920s and 1930s.
How did the popularity of this item impact South Carolina?
By improving the state’s economy since the majority of factories creating the product were located in South Carolina.
It led to greater isolation since most South Carolinians stopped traveling and stayed home.
It contributed to the nationalization of the culture by giving South Carolinians a way to learn about events outside the state.
What factor caused Columbia, South Carolina, to be considered an important industrial center in the late 19th century?
Columbia received grants from the government to expand.
Columbia was a regional railroad hub that served hundreds of trains each day.
Columbia did not adopt Jim Crow Laws, which led to an increase in the population of African Americans
Why did very few immigrants settle in South Carolina during the Industrial Age?
Immigrants were looking to work in factories, which South Carolina did not have many of.
Immigrants wanted to buy land and farm, but surplus land in South Carolina was purchased by former slaves.
Jim Crow Laws specifically targeted immigrants .
Who typically worked in South Carolina's 19th century textile mills?
European Immigrants from northern cities
Young girls from nearby farms
Poor whites who were no longer earning money farming
After Reconstruction, how did industrial growth in South Carolina compare to the industrial growth in northern states?
South Carolina experienced more industrial growth than most northern states.
South Carolina experienced some industrial growth but lagged behind northern states.
South Carolina industrialized at the same rate as northern states.
This photograph was taken by progressive reformer Lewis Hine in 1910.
Why did Lewis Hine publish photographs like this one?
to encourage people to buy the cloth made in textile mills
to promote the end of segregated working conditions
to encourage people to support laws ending child labor
This photo and its accompanying notes were recorded by Lewis Hine at the Olympia Mill in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1909.
Based on the notes, why did Furman Owens not receive an education?
He was a better worker than student
Owens dropped out of school
Owens had to work in the mill
This article outlines a new law passed as a result of the work of progressive reformers in South Carolina.
Why were laws such as this one difficult to enact in South Carolina?
Northern states refused to pass similar laws, and South Carolina did not want to be the first.
Many families opposed the laws because they relied on the income earned by children.
Mill owners supported the laws, and legislators opposed ideas supported by industrialists.
This photograph was taken in South Carolina during the Industrial Age.
Which statement is an accurate reflection of life for children like the one in this photograph?
They had difficult lives since they earned very low wages, worked long hours, and did not attend school.
They were apprentices who advanced to high-paying management positions when they got older.
They were paid higher wages and had safer working conditions than if they worked on farms.
How did South Carolina's industrial development after the Civil War compare to the rest of the nation?
South Carolina was on pace with the rest of the nation in terms of economic and manufacturing development.
South Carolina was far more advanced in its mining, textile, and meat-packing industries.
South Carolina lagged behind the rest of the nation in industrial development but saw growth in the textile industry.
In the late 1800s, how did the expansion of railroads impact South Carolina?
It brought high paying, prestigious jobs to African Americans in the state.
It promoted the growth of textile mills by making it easier to ship finished products.
It caused Lowcountry farmers to switch from farming cotton to rice.
What factor spurred the growth of the textile industry in South Carolina’s Upcountry?
Many poor farmers were no longer able to make a living off the land and took jobs in mills.
Many African Americans wanted to escape sharecropping contracts and took jobs in mills.
Large numbers of European immigrants coming to the state provided a cheap labor force.
Which post-Civil War industry had the greatest impact on the economy of South Carolina?
Coal Mining
Meat Packing
Railroad Construction
What new technology helped boost the tourism industry in South Carolina during the 1920s?
The telegraph
The automobile
The vacuum cleaner
