POPULIST, PROGRESSIVE, &WWI

POPULIST

• Ben Tillman became a leader of the populist party in S.C.
• Populist party=Peoples party
• He understood the values and needs if the common people was against the Conversation elite
• was against the Conversation elite

BEN TILLMAN

• He represented the poor whites in S.C.
• He helped established Clemson as a common mans school for agriculture

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Campaigned on white superiority
• Led the movement to remove African Americans
• Reemergence of the terrorism of the reconstruction era

PROGRESSIVES

• Progressive wanted to cure societities problem
• Child labor
• Temperance
• Women suffrage
• Education

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CHILD LABOR

• Child labor-children were a source of cheap labor
• SC was slow to adopt children labor laws because mill owners were against child labor

TEMPRANCE

• The movement wanted to rid alcohol
• Governor Tillman crested dispensary to control the sell of alcohol
• Prohibition of alcohol began in 1915 in South Carolina

WOMEN SUFFRAGE

• White women in S.C. Promoted social reforms
• Progressive Movement most weren't very active
• The National movement for women suffrage for more success

WWI

• Factors to US entering the war:
• Trade and Historical ties to Britian
• Unrestricted submarine warfare
• Zimmerman Telegraph

SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE WAR

• Industrial and agriculture production
• South Carolina farmers profited from extra profit
• Food products cotton doubled

RACE RELATIONS DURING THE WAR

• African American continued to move north to work in factories
• Making supplies leaving Jim Crow laws behind
• Black soldiers fought for there country
• Returned home to Jim Crow laws
• Segregation