Informational Text Questions Standard 8-5.5

Directions: Using your Informational Text, answer the following questions using complete sentences on a separate piece of paper. 1. Why did industry throughout the U.S. expand rapidly? 2. What led to a growth in the steel and oil industries? 3. Why were meat packing and grain processing plants built? 4. Who provided the labor for expanding factories? 5. What did S.C. NOT attract during the immediate postwar period? 6. How did the planter elite feel about the development of industry? 7. What did Conservatives do to support the South? 8. What were Conservatives more interested in? 9. What did major cities grow as a result of? 10. What was Columbia? 11. What did the transcontinental trains promote? 12. What became very important to S.C. due to the railroad boom? 13. What did local investors provide? 14. Who was attracted to mill villages? 15. What were most African Americans not considered for? 16. Where were the first mills started? 17. How were the textile mills modeled after New England mills? 18. S.C. was the second largest what? 19. What was life like for workers in the mill villages? 20. What happened to mill workers when depression struck? 21. What made children good for working in the mills? 22. What nickname was given to workers in the mill villages? 23. What did workers in S.C. mills earn? 24. When did workers work and how many hours a week did they work? 25. What disease did workers get and how did they get it? 26. What increased after Reconstruction in S.C.? 27. Where was phosphate rock found? 28. What did phosphate mining bring in the late nineteenth century? 29. What happened to phosphate mining in the Beaufort area? 30. When did the S.C. companies for phosphates go out of business?