A | B |
Social Darwinism | Belief that only those who adapt to change will prosper |
scrip | Paper money that is only good at a mill or plantation store |
phosphate | Fertilizer ingredient that was mined in SC after the Civil War |
Reform Darwinism | Belief that real progress comes through cooperation not competition. |
Social Gospel | Belief that the church is responsibile for society as well as individuals |
Tenant Farming | Where a farmer lives on the land of others and works for wages or for shares |
lien | Mortgage on the next crop |
Columbia Mill | First mill in the world to be powered by hydroelecteric power |
Sharecropping | The land owner furnishes land and supplies and the laborer receives a portion of the crops as payment |
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson | Mill league baseball player that went on to play for Chicago White Sox |
Mark Twain | Writer of "Huckleberry Finn" |
Textile Mills | Major industry in the Piedmont starting in the late 1800's |
"Electeric City" | Nickname for Anderson, SC |
Mill worker | Person who worker in a buliding that made textiles |
Jane Addams | Founded Hull House, a community center |