S.C. History - Historic People

Test Description: Historic People from S.C. History

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Which crop did Eliza Lucas Pinckney make extremely valuable to S.C.?

2) Who was elected as S.C.'s governor, which ended Reconstruction because he redeemed the government from the Republican party?

3) How were Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch Jr., Thomas Heyward Jr. and Edward Rutledge all related?

4) Who led the Union army through the South and SC, using the method of total war to force the South to surrender during the Civil War?

5) Who tried to lead an unsuccessful slave revolt in Charleston after buying his own freedom from slavery?

6) The people who favored passing the U.S. Constitution were known as

7) Who was a long standing senator in SC that joined the Dixiecrat party, wrote the Southern Manifesto and eventually switched to the Republican Party?

8) Who helped get the New Deal passed through Congress and helped guide the Lend Lease Plan?

9) How were William Harden, Andrew Pickens, Francis Marion, and Thomas Sumter all related?

10) What impact did the 54th Massachusetts Unit have on SC during the Civil War?

11) Who was elected Governor of SC with the support of small farmers and blaming Conservatives for their problems?

12) How are John Brown and the Grimke sisters similar?

13) Who was the first graduate of the new law school at SC State to pass the bar exam, became a civil rights lawyer and then served as SC's first African American federal judge?

14) Who trained bomber pilots in SC that eventually launched air attacks on Tokyo during World War II?

15) Who was an African American educator, Civil Rights leader and a member of FDR's unofficial Black Cabinet?

16) Who was a part of the Southern Literary Renaissance and wrote Porgy?

17) Who was an artist from SC that splashed their canvases with vibrant color that captured the dance halls, jazz bands and the emotions of the Harlem Renaissance?

18) How did John C. Calhoun show his displeasure with the protective tariffs?

19) During Reconstruction, who decided to split up the South into 5 military districts?

20) After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, the book Uncle Tom's Cabin was released detailing the lives of slaves. Who wrote this book?


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