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15 Cards in this Set
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Rice Indigo cotton |
Since colonial days SC made money by farming these products |
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Cotton |
This was king in the antebellum era |
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Tobacco |
In the mid 1950's this replace cotton as the main crop in SC |
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Manufacturing and tourism |
1970's these replaced agriculture as the main economy in SC |
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Reasons for change in SC economic activity away from farming |
Depopulation led to reliance on machines SC migration-rural to urban by 1970 more SC lived in cities than in rural areas AA moved north
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Increased yields and lowered price of farm goods making farmers unable to pay loans and move to cities |
New farming methods and use of fertilizers |
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Decline of SC Textiles |
Where once the Textile industry benefited from the lack of unions and low wages in SC in the 1990's international competition such as NAFTA and GATT caused |
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NAFTA GATT |
North American Free Trade Agreement General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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Briggs v Elliot |
Supreme court case brought because parents said black schools were inferior to white schools in SC. (buses, curricula, facilities) Later became part of Brown v Board of Education suit. SC schools were segregated (Plessy v Ferguson but were supposed to be equal) |
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Ways SC has attracted new businesses |
1. Modernized ports 2. Expanded highways (transportation) 3. built airports (GSP) 4. Built technical colleges 5. Continued right to work status 6. Offered tax incentives |
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Jim Crow laws |
restrictions on voting through poll taxes and literary tests and discrimination in the workplace |
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NAACP |
took legal approach and brought cases of discrimination to courts |
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Elmore v Rice |
supreme court case ruled that "white" primary elections were unconstitutional. (In SC blacks could only vote in general election not primary election) |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
supreme court decision that said separate facilities for blacks and whites was OK as long as they were equal (separate but equal) |
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Brown v Board of Education |
overturned Plessy v Ferguson and said that segregation was illegal |
