BEGIN EXERCISE AT BYRNES MONUMENT FOUND AT CORNER OF GERVAIS & SUMTER STREETS, THEN MOVE SOUTH 1. The citizens of South Carolina elected James F. Byrnes to which three offices? –––––––––––––––––––––– , –––––––––––––––––––––––– , ––––––––––––––––––––––––– What three federal offices was he appointed to? ––––––––––––––––––––––– , –––––––––––––––––––––––– , ––––––––––––––––––––––––– What was the title of Byrnes’ autobiography? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

2. What three native South Carolinians served as generals in the American Revolution? –––––––––––––––––––––– , –––––––––––––––––––––––– , –––––––––––––––––––––––––

3. In what war did Wade Hampton serve as a general? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Fill in the names of the following three battles that Wade Hampton took part in: Cold –––––––––––––––––––––, –––––––––––––––burg, First –––––––––––––––––––––– After the war, Wade Hampton was elected to what two political offices? –––––––––––––––––––––– and –––––––––––––––––––––––

4. What war did Richard Richardson serve in as a general of militia? ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Richardson Street in Columbia is now known by what name? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

5. Strom Thurmond served in what political office longer than any other person in American history except two? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– What was unusual about the way in which he was elected to this office?–––––––––––––––––––––– What WWII battle did Thurmond take part in? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– What other statewide office did Thurmond hold? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

6. Name the only war that a monument specifically commemorates the contributions of South Carolina’s women? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

7. The Palmetto Tree monument commemorates what group of South Carolinians and what event? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– , –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 8. Who is the only person buried on the State House grounds? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In what war did he serve? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 9. What science did J. Marion Sims found? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– What specific group of people does this science concern itself with? ––––––––––––––––

10. What two elected offices did Ben Tillman hold? –––––––––––––––, –––––––––––––––– Which two South Carolina universities did he found? –––––––––––––, ––––––––––––– Which political party considered him a hero? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

11. What group of South Carolinians was responsible for erecting the Confederate monument? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– During what years did the Civil War take place? –––––––––––––––––––––––

12. The statue of a soldier holding a rifle across his legs commemorates which war and which two U.S. military involvements? –––––––––––––––––––––––– , ––––––––––––––––––––– and ––––––––––––––––––––– This monument also honors three South Carolinians who volunteered to find a cure for what disease? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

13. An artillery gun on the grounds commemorates the sinking of what battleship during what war? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––– during the ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

14. What is broken on George Washington’s statue on the State House steps? ––––––––––––––––––– What caused this defect? ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

15. Arrange the following events relating to African American History into the correct chronological order: Brown vs. Board of Education, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, Jim Crow Law, Equal Rights Marches, Freedmen’s Bureau 1. ––––––––––––––––––––– 2. –––––––––––––––––––––– 3._ –––––––––––––––––––––– 4. ––––––––––––––––––––– 5._ –––––––––––––––––––––– 6. –––––––––––––––––––––

16. African-Americans brought as enslaved persons through Charleston came mainly from what four countries? 1. ––––––––––––––– 2. ––––––––––––––––– 3. ––––––––––––––– 4. –––––––––––––– ANSWERS 1. U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator, Governor U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Secretary of State, “Assistant President” All in One Lifetime 2. Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, Andrew Pickens

3. Civil War Harbor, Gettys, Manassas Governor and U.S. Senator 4. Revolutionary War Main 5. U.S. Senator Won by a Write-In Vote D-Day Invasion Governor 6. Civil War 7. Palmetto Regiment, Mexican War 8. Swanson Lunsford Revolutionary War 9. Gynecology Women 10. Governor, U.S. Senator Clemson, Winthrop Democratic 11. Women of South Carolina 1861-1865 12. Spanish American War Philippine Insurrection and China Relief Expedition Yellow Fever 13. U.S.S. Maine, Spanish American War 14. Walking Cane Sherman’s Soldiers Brick Batted It

15. Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, Freedmen’s Bureau, Jim Crow Laws, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Marches 16. Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and the Congo