Bell Work
1. All of the following were conflicts between the Royal and
Proprietary governments except?
A. Lack of adequate supplies
B. Lack of adequate protection
C. Use of slave labor
D. Trade restrictions
Answer: C
2. Which statement best describes SC as it was being settled in the 17 th
century?
A. It was a proprietary colony under the rule of the Lord’s Proprietors
B. It was a military colony under the control of a large military unit
C. It was primarily a religious colony for people escaping persecution
D. It was a colony for Native Americans displace from their land
Answer: A
Agenda
Notes/Discussion: Explain the causes and effects of changes in
South Carolina and the nation as a whole in the 1920s,
Key Focus:
• Prohibition
• The destruction caused by the boll weevil
• The rise of mass media
• Improvements in daily life
• Increases in tourism and recreation
• The revival of the Ku Klux Klan
Student Group Activity: Using informational text to explain the
cause and effects of changes in SC and the nation as a whole in
the 1920s
Closure:
Independent Practice: Storyboard
Quick Review
List some reasons for the US involvement
in World War I
Relevance
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
• Economy
• Society & Culture
• Invention of New Home
Appliances
• Mass Media
• Improvements in urban
life
• Installment Plan
• In the United States and in South Carolina, the 1920s seemed to be
a prosperous time.
• Economic change resulted from the prosperity brought by the war
years.
• During the war, farmers’ economic conditions improved because
of increased demand for their products.
• This had a ripple effect on the rest of the agriculturally based South
Carolina economy.
• Bankers and merchants as well as landowners, sharecroppers, and
tenant farmers shared in the good times and went on a spending
spree.
• Prosperity did not last and soon cotton and tobacco prices fell as a
result of overproduction and the loss of overseas markets (8-6.3).
The Boll Weevil
• In the early 1920s South Carolina cotton
farms were infested by the Mexican Boll
Weevil. Boll Weevils are small beetles that eat
the cotton boll. There was no treatment for
Boll Weevils.
• As a result of Boll Weevils invasion, cotton
farms failed. People left the farms and moved
to cities in the North and the West in search
of new opportunities.
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction caused by
the boll weevil, the rise of mass media, improvements in daily life, increases in
tourism and recreation, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and the contributions of
South Carolinians to the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Literary
Renaissance.
• Students will complete chart explaining the cause and effects of
changes in SC and the nation as a whole in the 1920s
• I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find
relevant information about the changes in SC and the nation as
whole in the nation.
• We Do: Work together finding relevant information about the
changes in SC and the nation as a whole in the nation using
informational text and graphic organizer
• You Do: The students will complete the graphic organizer
• Students will then share responses
Guided Practice
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the nation as a
whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction caused by the boll weevil,
the rise of mass media, improvements in daily life, increases in tourism and
recreation, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and the contributions of South Carolinians
to the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance.
Issues
I Do: Prohibition
Causes
Effects
Prohibition was a failure in South Carolina, just as it was in the rest of
the country, but it created a social phenomenon. It led to an increase in
crime and corruption as ‘bootleggers’ and ‘moonshiners’ violated the
law. This prompted a backlash of conservatives who abhorred the
moral decline that such flagrant violation of the law exemplified. Blue
laws were strictly enforced and the Ku Klux Klan found a new target in
the immoral bootleggers and immigrant groups who continued to
drink.
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the nation as a
whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction caused by the boll weevil,
the rise of mass media, improvements in daily life, increases in tourism and
recreation, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, and the contributions of South Carolinians
to the Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance.
Issues
We Do: Boll
Weevil
Causes
Effects
In the early 1920s South Carolina cotton farms were
infested by the Mexican Boll Weevil. Boll Weevils are
small beetles that eat the cotton boll. There was no
treatment for Boll Weevils.
As a result of Boll Weevils invasion, cotton farms failed.
People left the farms and moved to cities in the North
and the West in search of new opportunities.
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
Issues
Causes
Effects
Prohibition
Failure in SC and rest of the country, it
created a social phenomenon
It led to increase crime and corruption as
bootleggers and moonshiners continued to
drink and sell alcohol
Boll Weevil
Cotton farms were infested by Boll Weevils
and there was no treatment for them
Cotton farms failed and People left the farms
and moved to the cities in the North and the
West in search of new opportunities
Rise of Mass Media
First radio station in SC went on the air in
Charleston and provided entertainment and
news
This led to the growth of communications
across SC which nationalize the states’
culture
Tourism/Recreation
The increase in the number of automobiles
in SC
SC attempted to boost tourism by opening
hotels in Charleston, promoting development
along the coast, visitors from the north were
attracted to the climate in the south which
attracted them to SC beaches
Revival of Ku Klux Klan
The Movie The Birth depicted the origins of
the Klan positively as the Redeemers of the
Reconstruction Era, and Saviors of white
womanhood, employing traditional racist
stereotypes
The power and influence of the Ku Klux Klan
grew in SC
Unlike the earlier group, they targeted
immigrants
They used a variety of tactics to terrorize and
intimidate their targets
They also gained political power
Improvements in Daily Life
Because of new technologies
Because of trolley systems and the
automobiles
Water and sanitization systems were built in
towns and cities of SC
Some people moved to the suburbs on the
outskirts of cities such as Columbia
Closure
Explain one cause and effect of changes in
South Carolina and the nation as a whole in
the 1920s
Improvements In Daily Life
• In the 1920s, some social change came as the result of improvements in urban
life because of new technologies.
• However, there was little change for South Carolina’s farmers.
• Water and sanitation systems were built in towns and cities of South Carolina.
• Because of trolley systems and the automobile, some people moved to
suburbs on the outskirts of cities such as Columbia.
• Electricity became more available to people in towns and cities as the result
of the harnessing of water power through the building of dams along South
Carolina’s rivers, including the dam that formed Lake Murray, but electricity
did not reach rural areas.
• Improvements in daily life were the result of greater availability of electricity
and the new appliances that used it.
• Some South Carolinians bought automobiles, vacuum cleaners, and washing
machines on the installment plan, just as people did throughout the United
States.
• Although, appliances eased the workload of housewives, few South Carolina
women joined the ranks of the flappers.
• South Carolina society continued to be stratified, sexist and segregated.
Glenwood Stove and Washing Machine
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
The Flappers
• These women challenged
traditional American values.
– Characteristics of a Flapper:
• Short, bobbed hair
• Short hems on their skirts
• Listened to Jazz music
• Wore makeup
• Drank hard liquor
• Smoked cigarettes
• Treating sex in a more
casual manner
• Were opposed to the
conventional social and
sexual norms
Increases in Tourism and Recreation
• In response to the decline of the agricultural
and industrial sectors of the economy (8-6.3),
South Carolinians attempted to boost tourism
by opening hotels in Charleston, promoting
development along the coast and beginning
the national historic preservation movement.
The increased number of automobiles made travel possible and
visitors from the North were attracted to the climate and culture
of the Old South, preserved in the stately homes and buildings of
a bygone era.
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
Goal: was to reduce crime and poverty and improve the quality of life
by making it impossible for people to get their hands on alcohol.
• Prohibition was a failure in South Carolina, just as it
was in the rest of the country, but it created a social
phenomenon.
• It led to an increase in crime and corruption as
‘bootleggers’ and ‘moonshiners’ violated the law.
• This prompted a backlash of conservatives who
abhorred the moral decline that such flagrant
violation of the law exemplified.
• Blue laws were strictly enforced and the Ku Klux Klan
found a new target in the immoral bootleggers and
immigrant groups who continued to drink.
Rise of the KKK was due to the ever
changing of a traditional America.
1925: Membership of 5 million
1926: Marched on Washington.
Attack on urban culture and defends
Christian/Protestant and rural values
Against immigrants from Southern
Europe, European Jews, Catholics and
American Blacks
Sought to win U.S. by persuasion and
gaining control in local/state government.
Violence, internal corruption result in
Klan’s virtual disappearance by 1930 but
will reappear in the 1950s and 1960s.
Mass Media
• Mass media had a significant impact on South Carolina as
it did on the rest of the country.
• In 1930, the first radio station in South Carolina went on
the air in Charleston and provided entertainment and
news to those who could afford it.
• South Carolinians listened to their radios and went to the
movies with a resulting nationalization of culture.
• South Carolinians learned about flappers and the latest
music and dance crazes.
• Night spots, such as the Big Apple, named after the
African-American nightclub where the steps originated
opened.
•Radio sets, parts and
accessories brought in $60
million in 1922…
• $136 million in 1923
•$852 million in 1929
•Radio reached into every
third home in its first
decade.
•Listening audience was 50,000,000 by 1925 (VERY IMP. FOR GREAT
DEPRESSION & WWII)
Reflection
• Create a storyboard of the events that occurred
during the Roaring Twenties
• Design drawings of these events
• Write a brief description for each event
Your information will include:
The causes and effects of changes in
South Carolina and the nation as a whole in the
1920s.
Bell Work
1. One of the most costly earthquakes in SC history took place in?
A. Columbia
B. Charleston
C. Greenville
D. Florence
Answer: B
2. Most of the people who left SC during the 19 th century moved?
A. north
B. south
C. west
D. east
Answer: A
Agenda
Notes/Discussion: Explain the causes and effects of
changes in South Carolina and the nation as a whole in the
1920s, including the contributions of SC to the Harlem
Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance
Key Focus:
• Harlem Renaissance
• Southern Literary Renaissance
Student Group Activity: Using informational text to explain
the cause and effects of changes in SC and the nation as a
whole in the 1920s due to the contributions of the Harlem
Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance
Closure:
Independent Practice:
Reminders
• Study notes nightly
• Notecards due Friday
• Movie Fundraiser-Friday March 28
• Economy
• Society & Culture
• Invention of New Home
Appliances
• Mass Media
• Improvements in urban
life
• Installment Plan
RELEVANCE
How many of you love
music, art, or writing?
Focus Statement
8-6.2
Explain the causes and effects of changes in
South Carolina and the nation as a whole in
the 1920s, including the contributions of
South Carolinians to the Harlem Renaissance
and the Southern Literary Renaissance.
Renaissance-”Re-birth”
Examples
• Age of
Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Italian Renaissance
Non-Examples
• Industrial Revolution
• Progressive Era
• American Revolution
Southern Literary Renaissance
• This period was a very important period in
American Literature
• Responding to criticisms of South Carolina as a
cultural wasteland, the Southern Literary
Renaissance furthered the celebration of South
Carolina’s heritage.
• The Poetry Society of South Carolina led this
revival and contributors included Julia Peterkin,
who won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, and
DuBose Heyward, who wrote Porgy, which later
became the opera Porgy and Bess.
The Harlem Renaissance
Causes
What events and movements do you think may have helped lead
to the Renaissance?
Great Migration:
the movement of
hundreds of
thousands of
African
Americans from
rural areas in the
South to urban
areas in both the
North and South.
Every family has that
one member that they
don’t want to admit to!
Don’t let it be you!!!
What push factors led to the migration? What pull factors led to the migration?
Causes
Growing African American Middle Class: developed
as a result of improved educational and employment
opportunities for African Americans.
The Harlem section of New York became the center of this
new African American class.
Impact
The Harlem section of New York City was transformed from a
deteriorating area into a thriving middle class community.
Before
After
Modernism & the Harlem Renaissance
• Blacks view surge in art, music and literature as the
creation of a new cultural identity.
• Whites see it as another new, exotic, and trendy form of
entertainment.
The Harlem Renaissance
• South Carolinians contributed to the arts through the
Harlem Renaissance.
• This cultural renaissance was the result of the Great
Migration that brought African Americans to the cities of
the Northeast and the Midwest and furthered the
development of a growing black middle class. African
Americans left the South in response to push factors such
as Jim Crow discrimination, violence and poverty, and pull
factors such as job opportunities in the Northern cites.
• The Harlem Renaissance exalted the unique culture of
African Americans and brought recognition and pride to
black artists in a variety of genres, particularly musicians.
The Harlem Renaissance
William H. Johnson- of Florence,
South Carolina,
He used Canvases with vibrant color
that captured the dance halls, jazz bands,
and the emotion of the era. Johnson
traveled to Paris in 1926, where he
settled, painted, and studied the works of
modern European masters.
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s, including the contributions of the Harlem
Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance
• Students will complete chart explaining the cause and effects of
changes in SC and the nation as a whole in the 1920s
• I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find
relevant information about the changes in SC and the nation as
whole in the nation including the contributions of the Harlem
Renaissance and the Southern Literary Renaissance
• We Do: Work together finding relevant information about the
changes in SC and the nation as a whole in the nation using
informational text and graphic organizer
• You Do: The students will complete the graphic organizer
• Students will then share responses
Guided Practice
The Harlem Renaissance
Changes in South
Carolina and the Nation
Southern Literary
Renaissance -A
reinvigoration of
Southern Literature after
WWI
Harlem Renaissance- An
African American cultural
movement in 1920s
America during which
black art, literature and
music experienced
renewal and growth,
originating in New York
City’s Harlem district.
Cause
Effect
Contributions of South
Carolinians
The Harlem Renaissance
Changes in South
Carolina and the
Nation
Southern Literary
Renaissance -A
reinvigoration of
Southern Literature
after WWI
Cause
Effect
Contributions of
South Carolinians
The Harlem Renaissance
Changes in South
Carolina and the Nation
Harlem Renaissance- An
African American
cultural movement in
1920s America during
which black art, literature
and music experienced
renewal and growth,
originating in New York
City’s Harlem district.
Cause
Effect
Contributions of South
Carolinians
The Harlem Renaissance
Changes in South Carolina and the Nation
Cause
Effect(s)
Contributions of South Carolinians


Southern Literary Renaissance – A
reinvigoration of Southern Literature
after WWI

The opening up of the predominantly 
rural south to outside influences due
to industrial expansion that took place
in the region after World War I.
Came about in response to criticism
of South Carolina as a cultural
wasteland.



Harlem Renaissance- An African
Result of the Great Migration that brought
American cultural movement in 1920s
African Americans to the cities of the
America during which black art, literature Northeast and Midwest.
and music experienced renewal and
growth, originating in New York City’s
Harlem district.


Changed the focus of Southern
writers from focus on historical

romances about the lost casue of
the Confederate States of
America, which glorified the
heroism of the Confederate army.
Instead the focus became :
1. The burden of history in a
place where many still
remembered slavery,
Reconstruction, and a
devastating military defeat.
2. Conservative culture
3. The South’s trouble history
in regards to racial issues.
Many future Southern writers
were inspired by the writers of
the Southern Renaissance.
Exalted the unique culture of

African Americans and brought
recognition and pride to black
artist in a variety of genres,
particularly musicians.
The radio helped spread
appreciation for new trends in

music such as jazz to white
audiences and promoted a shared
national culture.
Also further pointed out the
Julia Perkins won a Pulitzer Prize
for Literature
Dubose Heyward wrote Porgy
which later became the opera
Porgy and Bess
William H. Johnson- A major
American
Artist
(Visual
artist/Painter). Johnson traveled to
Paris where he settled, painted
and studied the works of modern
European masters.
He created hundreds of works.
The Harlem Renaissance
Changes in South Carolina and the
Nation
Southern Literary Renaissance – A
reinvigoration of Southern Literature
after WWI
Harlem Renaissance- An African
American cultural movement in 1920s
America during which black art,
literature and music experienced
renewal and growth, originating in New
York City’s Harlem district.
Cause
Effect(s)
Contributions of South Carolinians
Reflection
• Students will create a time capsule of the Harlem
Renaissance.
• Make a poster showing the items you would
include in your capsule.
• Items should include things that represent art,
literature, or entertainment.
• Write a brief essay on why you chose the items
you did for your time capsule.
Bell Work
1. What effect did Reconstruction have on education in SC?
A. Established public schools for all children
B. Integrated all schools so that all races were educated together
C. Banned African Americans from all educational institutions
D. Required students to pass a statewide test before beginning school
Answer: A
2. What benefit the republican government accomplish for African
Americans during Reconstruction?
A. Widespread landownership for most African Americans
B. Economic independence through high paying industrial job
C. Political participation and citizenship to African Americans
D. Abolishment of all racial barriers
Answer: C
Bell Work
1. All of the following were methods used for bringing laborers to the
SC colony except what?
A. Slaves from Asia
B. Indentured servants
C. Slaves from Africa
D. Slaves from Barbados
Answer: A
2. What was true of the final battles in SC during the Civil War?
A. They were the result of a major slave revolt led by Denmark Vesey
B. They were attacks on SC civilians by Sherman’s troops
C. They were the result of an unsuccessful attempt to retake Savannah
D. They were disorganized attacks on the slave quarters
Answer: B
Agenda
Notes/Discussion: Explain the New Deal programs and its
impact on South Carolina
Key Focus:
• The Great Depression
• New Deal Programs
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• James F. Byrnes
Student Group Activity: Using informational text and graphic
Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the lasting
impact of the New Deal on people and programs in South
Carolina
Closure: Q & A using whiteboards
Reflection: Brief essay on the importance of the New Deal
and how it effected SC and the US
Reminders
•
•
•
•
Study notes nightly
Notecards due Friday
Movie Fundraiser- March 28th
Early Dismissal- March 28th (1:30)
Quick Review
Discuss with your partner/group, then list
some of the issues that brought about change
in the 1920s.
8-6.2 Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the
nation as a whole in the 1920s
Issues
Causes
Effects
Prohibition
Failure in SC and rest of the country, it
created a social phenomenon
It led to increase crime and corruption as
bootleggers and moonshiners continued to
drink and sell alcohol
Boll Weevil
Cotton farms were infested by Boll Weevils
and there was no treatment for them
Cotton farms failed and People left the farms
and moved to the cities in the North and the
West in search of new opportunities
Rise of Mass Media
First radio station in SC went on the air in
Charleston and provided entertainment and
news
This led to the growth of communications
across SC which nationalize the states’
culture
Tourism/Recreation
The increase in the number of automobiles
in SC
SC attempted to boost tourism by opening
hotels in Charleston, promoting development
along the coast, visitors from the north were
attracted to the climate in the south which
attracted them to SC beaches
Revival of Ku Klux Klan
The Movie The Birth depicted the origins of
the Klan positively as the Redeemers of the
Reconstruction Era, and Saviors of white
womanhood, employing traditional racist
stereotypes
The power and influence of the Ku Klux Klan
grew in SC
Unlike the earlier group, they targeted
immigrants
They used a variety of tactics to terrorize and
intimidate their targets
They also gained political power
Improvements in Daily Life
Because of new technologies
Because of trolley systems and the
automobiles
Water and sanitization systems were built in
towns and cities of SC
Some people moved to the suburbs on the
outskirts of cities such as Columbia
RELEVANCE
How would you feel if you
lost a large sum of money
that you had been saving to
purchase a new car?
Focus Statement
8-6.4
Explain the New Deal Programs and their impact
on SC
Depression Defined
A severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity.
In economics, a depression is commonly defined as an
extreme recession that lasts two or more years. A
depression is characterized by economic factors such as
substantial increases in unemployment, a drop in
available credit, diminishing output, bankruptcies and
sovereign debt defaults, reduced trade and commerce,
and sustained volatility in currency values. In times of
depression, consumer confidence and investments
decrease, causing the economy to shut down.
Example
Non-Example
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
The Dawn of the Depression
• Before the stock market crash, there had been warning
signs of financial troubles to come.
• Despite the general prosperity of the 1920s, industries
such as lumber, mining, and agriculture had never recover
from the financial setbacks brought by the end of WWI.
• After the stock market crash, conditions continued to
deteriorate in South Carolina.
• More banks failed and some textile mills closed their doors.
• More farmers lost their land to foreclosure and a railroad
went bankrupt.
The Dawn of the Depression
• A quarter of the people in South Carolina were
unemployed and people had no money to spend in their
local stores.
• Marriage and birth rates dropped dramatically as people
postponed starting families because they could not afford
them.
• Young men wandered from town to town or rode the rails
searching for work or a handout.
• Charitable organizations, such as churches and
community groups, could not keep up with the need for
food, clothing, and shelter.
• People looked to the government for help.
What do you Remember?
• What warning signs showed that the
economy was in trouble in the
1920s?
• What events contributed to the Great
Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President
of the United States in November 1932 on the
promise that he would bring a New Deal to the
American people.
• By the time he was inaugurated in March of
1933, conditions were even worse
• Roosevelt sought advice from South Carolinians,
most notably James F. Byrnes and Mary McLeod
Bethune.
James F. Byrnes
• Byrnes was elected to the United States Senate in
1930 where he helped Roosevelt pass the New
Deal through Congress and served as an
important domestic policy adviser.
• Byrnes was South Carolina’s Senator until 1941
when he accepted an appointment to the Supreme
Court.
• He later served as head of the Office of War
Mobilization, Secretary of State and Governor of
South Carolina
Mary McLeod Bethune
• Mary McLeod Bethune was an African
American educator and civil rights leader
who founded a college and organized the
National Council of Negro Women.
• She served as the Director of Negro Affairs for
the National Youth Administration and was
an influential member of the unofficial “Black
Cabinet,” a group of African American leaders
President Roosevelt consulted.
What do you Remember?
• What president was elected in 1932 ?
• Which two notable South Carolinians
did the president consult with?
Focus Statement
8-6.4
Explain the New Deal Programs and their impact
on SC
FDR’s "New Deal”
• During his first “hundred days” in office,
President Roosevelt started an aggressive
program to bring relief, recovery, and reform to
the country.
• He used the radio for “fireside chats” to reassure
the American people that they had “nothing to
fear but fear itself.”
• New Deal programs were not specifically
designed for South Carolina, however, certain
programs had significant and long-term impact
on the people of South Carolina.
8-6.4 Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the lasting impact of the
New Deal on people and programs in South Carolina, including James F. Byrnes
and Mary McLeod Bethune, the Rural Electrification Act, the general textile
strike of 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress
Administration, the Public Works Administration, the Social Security Act, and the
Santee Cooper Electricity Project.
• Students will complete chart explaining the effects of the Great Depression
and the lasting impact of the New Deal on people and programs in SC
• I Do: The teacher will model using informational text to find relevant
information explaining the effects of the Great Depression and the lasting
impact of the New Deal on people and programs in SC
• We Do: Work together finding relevant information using informational
text and graphic organizer to explain the effects of the Great Depression
and the lasting impact of the New Deal on people and programs in SC
• You Do: The students will complete the graphic organizer
• Students will then share responses
Guided Practice
The New Deal Programs
Name
Explanation of Program
Significance to South
Carolina
I Do
Rural Electrification Act
The Rural Electrification Act brought power to many of the farms and
rural regions of South Carolina. By creating power cooperatives,
citizens were able to get government loans and work together to
provide electricity to less populated areas where commercial power
companies were unwilling to string power lines. By 1940, twenty five
percent of farms had electricity. Although dispossessed land owners
were offered meager compensation, other farmers were able to install
milking machines and water pumps that made farming more
profitable.
Name
The New Deal Programs
Explanation of Program
Significance to South
Carolina
We Do: The General Strike
Textile Strike of 1934
Other New Deal programs were designed to address the problems of overproduction and declining prices for
farmers and industry (8-6.3). The National Recovery Act set up codes for industries that would regulate
prices for consumers and hours and wages for workers. The code for textile mills did not affect the “speed
up” or the “stretch out” that mill owners used to get more productivity out of their workers, nor did it
guarantee workers a forty hour week. As a result of the workers dissatisfaction with wages and working
conditions, mill workers in South Carolina joined a labor union and called a general strike in 1934. The strike
affected mills along the eastern seaboard. Soon violence broke out between union members and strike
breakers (scabs). In South Carolina, deputies fired on a crowd in Honea Path killing seven workers and
injuring others. President Roosevelt urged the workers to end the strike and allow arbitration to find a
settlement. Strikers agreed, but many South Carolina mill owners did not, keeping their mills closed even
when the workers were ready to return. The strike led to the collapse of the union in South Carolina. The
New Deal later passed laws that established a minimum wage and maximum hours for industrial workers
and recognized their right to form a union and bargain collectively. In South Carolina the general textile strike
intensified anti-union sentiment which continues today.
Name
The New Deal Programs
Explanation of Program
Significance to South
Carolina
By 1940, 25% of the state’s farms
had electricity
Santee Cooper developed an electric
cooperative in SC and provided
electricity to millions of people
in rural areas
•
Rural Electrification Act
The General Strike Textile
Strike of 1934
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress
Administration
Create electric cooperatives
Created to improve the wages
and working conditions of
mill workers in SC
Established camps to give
young men jobs
Created to provide jobs for the
unemployed
Public Works Administration
Gave money to state & local
governments to build roads, bridges,
dams etc.
Social Security Act
Established to provide money
for the aged
Santee Cooper Electricity
Project
Created to provide electrical
power
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New Deal later passed laws that established a
minimum wage and maximum hours for industrial
workers and the right to form a union and bargain
collectively
• In SC, the strike intensified anti-union sentiment
Which continues to the present
• The CCC established 30 camps across the state
• Young men worked on reforestation and soil
conservation projects
• Many of the state parks in SC were developed
• Through the CCC program
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The WPA provided jobs for youth in SC so they
could continue their education
SC artists were paid by WPA to paint, write or
perform works of arts
Built many public building, including the Wade
Hampton State Office Building, the Carolina Stadium
Libraries, court houses, etc.
The program was designed to take money from
workers to help the elderly, as well as set up a trust
fund for workers once they retire, when older
people no longer work, they receive monthly payment
Provided large recreation areas that allowed people
To vacation, fish, and camp
Focus Statement
8-6.4
Explain the New Deal Programs and their impact
on SC
Closure
Using your whiteboard list and explain
2 New Deal Programs and their impact
on SC
Reflection
Critical Thinking:
• In a brief paragraph complete the following
discussion questions:
• Why did some people oppose the New Deal?
(provide evidence to support your answer)
• What was the overall effect of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s the New Deal? (provide evidence
to support your answer)
Bell Work
1. Which of the following best describes the outcome of the Union
blockade of Charleston?
A. Tied up Union ships which needed in the North
B. Reduced the need for Southern blockade runners
C. Created more civilian jobs
D. Disrupted trade and reduced the morale of Charleston residents
Answer: D
2. What was true of African American involvement in the Civil War
following the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. African Americans were allowed to fight as soldiers but experienced
discrimination from peer Union soldiers
B. They were not allowed to fight for either the Confederate or Union
armies
C. African American soldiers were treated with honor
D. Most Africans left the South and returned to Africa
Answer: A
Standard 8-6: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the role of South Carolina in the nation
in the early twentieth century.
Bell Work: Take Out Notes for Standard 8-6
• The students will demonstrate an understanding of
the role of South Carolina in the nation in the early
twentieth century.
• I Do: The teacher will model the first question of the
study guide
• We Do: Work together to complete question #2 of the
study guide
• You Do: The students will complete the study guide
Standard 8-6: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the role of South Carolina in the nation
in the early twentieth century.
Bell Work: Take Out Notes for test Standard 8-6
• The students will demonstrate an understanding of
the role of South Carolina in the nation in the early
twentieth century.
• I Do: The teacher will model the first question of the
test
• We Do: Work together to complete question #2 of test
• You Do: The students will complete the test
• Students will then complete reflection about the test
Standard 8-7: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the impact on South Carolina of
significant events of the late twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries.
Bell Work: Take Out Notes for test Standard 8-7
• Standard 8-7: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of the impact on South Carolina of
significant events of the late twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries.
• I Do: The teacher will model the first question of the
test
• We Do: Work together to complete question #2 of test
• You Do: The students will complete the test
• Students will then complete reflection about the test
Materials Needed
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SC Standards
Text book
Informational Text
Document Camera/Promethean Board
PowerPoint
Teacher Created Notes
Teacher Created Graphic Organizers
Video/Mill Life
Primary Source Documents
Study Guides/Test