Charleston Tour Guide
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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1. Name the 5 epidemics - Correct Answer: Yellow fever (1858), smallpox,
typhoid, malaria, diphtheria
2. Give dates of all hurricanes? - Correct Answer: 1752, 1885, 1893, 1911,
1959, 1979, 1989
3. Hurricane of 1893 facts? - Correct Answer: Great storm south of
city/killed 3000 in Beaufort and Edisto Island
4. Hurricane of 1911 facts? - Correct Answer: Hit at high tide/pushed salt
water back into rice fields and ruined crops forever
5. Hurricane of 1959 - Correct Answer: Gracie
6. Hurricane of 1979 - Correct Answer: David
7. Hurricane of September 21, 1989 - Correct Answer: Hugo
,8. Name all CHS exports - Correct Answer: Rice, cotton, tobacco, indigo,
lumber, marine stores, hides and furs
9. Two crops that weren't successful in CHS? - Correct Answer: Tea and
oranges
10.Facts about Rice export? - Correct Answer: Madagascar rice seed given
by Thomas Woodruff. Rice was an important crop until the Civil War. No
Slave labor after Civil War. Hurricane of 1911 hit at high tide and pushed salt
water back in rice fields ruining them forever.
11.Facts about Cotton export? - Correct Answer: Sea Island Cotton. First
Exported in 1748, but not a major crop until cotton gin was invented in
1792. Boil Weevil swept through area in 1920 and destroyed cotton as the
major crop.
12.Facts about Tobacco export? - Correct Answer: Not extensively grown in
area, but CHS Harbor was used to send tobacco to other areas.
13.Facts about Indigo export? - Correct Answer: blue-black dye derived
from the leaves of a bush. Purest indigo in the world grown in CHS before
the Revolution. It sold for $1 a pound. Chief trade was with England. After
Revolution, England stopped buying and bottom dropped out. Synthetic dye
was developed. Eliza Lucas Pinckney grew the first indigo crop in CHS after
four attempts.
,14.Who grew the first indigo crop in CHS after four attempts? - Correct
Answer: Eliza Lucas Pinckney
15.Facts about Lumber export? - Correct Answer: black cypress used for
building
16.Facts about Marine Stores export? - Correct Answer: tar, turpentine
used for ship building
17.Facts about Hides and Furs export? - Correct Answer: brought in and
purchased from Indians in the western part of Carolina
18.Name the three Rice mills? - Correct Answer: Bennett's, Chisolm's, West
Point
19.Bennett's location? - Correct Answer: On Concord St, east end of
Wentworth St. (behind Harris Teeter on East Bay St.) Facade still standing
20.Chisolm's location? - Correct Answer: West end of Tradd St, present day
Coast Guard Station
21.West Point location? - Correct Answer: Present day Municipal Marina.
Built in 1860.
, 22.Name the signers of the Declaration of Independence? - Correct
Answer: Thomas Heyward, Thomas Lynch, Edward Rutledge, Arthur
Middleton
23.Name the signers of the US Constitution? - Correct Answer: John
Rutledge, Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
24.Name 3 important ministers and their denominations and important facts? -
Correct Answer: John Bachman- minister at St. John's Lutheran. Friend
of James Audubon
Samuel Gilman- Unitarian. Involved in Revolutionary War. Wrote "Fair
Harvard" for his alma mater.
Richard Furman- First Baptist. Established Furman University.
25.Name the 7 Harbor Forts? - Correct Answer: Ft. Sumter, Ft. Johnson, Ft.
Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, Ft. Mechanic, Ft. Brouten, Ft. Wilkerson
26.Ft. Sumter important facts? - Correct Answer: Center of CHS harbor.
Named for Thomas Sumter, Revolutionary War hero. Construction began in
1829 as part of a federal project. Man-made island on a sand-bar. First shot
of Civil War was fired from Ft. Johnson to Ft. Sumter. Edmund Ruffin alleged
to have fired first shot. Maj. Robert Anderson was Federal commander at Ft.
Sumter. Gen. Beaureguard was the Commander Gen of Confederate forces.
Beaureguard had been a student of Anderson's at West Point. Abner
Doubleday is said to have fired first return shot for the North. Federal siege
of CHS longest in modern warfare from April 1863 to Feb 17, 1865 (501
days).
Comprehensive Resource To Help You Ace 2026-2027 Exams
Includes Frequently Tested Questions With ELABORATED
100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. Name the 5 epidemics - Correct Answer: Yellow fever (1858), smallpox,
typhoid, malaria, diphtheria
2. Give dates of all hurricanes? - Correct Answer: 1752, 1885, 1893, 1911,
1959, 1979, 1989
3. Hurricane of 1893 facts? - Correct Answer: Great storm south of
city/killed 3000 in Beaufort and Edisto Island
4. Hurricane of 1911 facts? - Correct Answer: Hit at high tide/pushed salt
water back into rice fields and ruined crops forever
5. Hurricane of 1959 - Correct Answer: Gracie
6. Hurricane of 1979 - Correct Answer: David
7. Hurricane of September 21, 1989 - Correct Answer: Hugo
,8. Name all CHS exports - Correct Answer: Rice, cotton, tobacco, indigo,
lumber, marine stores, hides and furs
9. Two crops that weren't successful in CHS? - Correct Answer: Tea and
oranges
10.Facts about Rice export? - Correct Answer: Madagascar rice seed given
by Thomas Woodruff. Rice was an important crop until the Civil War. No
Slave labor after Civil War. Hurricane of 1911 hit at high tide and pushed salt
water back in rice fields ruining them forever.
11.Facts about Cotton export? - Correct Answer: Sea Island Cotton. First
Exported in 1748, but not a major crop until cotton gin was invented in
1792. Boil Weevil swept through area in 1920 and destroyed cotton as the
major crop.
12.Facts about Tobacco export? - Correct Answer: Not extensively grown in
area, but CHS Harbor was used to send tobacco to other areas.
13.Facts about Indigo export? - Correct Answer: blue-black dye derived
from the leaves of a bush. Purest indigo in the world grown in CHS before
the Revolution. It sold for $1 a pound. Chief trade was with England. After
Revolution, England stopped buying and bottom dropped out. Synthetic dye
was developed. Eliza Lucas Pinckney grew the first indigo crop in CHS after
four attempts.
,14.Who grew the first indigo crop in CHS after four attempts? - Correct
Answer: Eliza Lucas Pinckney
15.Facts about Lumber export? - Correct Answer: black cypress used for
building
16.Facts about Marine Stores export? - Correct Answer: tar, turpentine
used for ship building
17.Facts about Hides and Furs export? - Correct Answer: brought in and
purchased from Indians in the western part of Carolina
18.Name the three Rice mills? - Correct Answer: Bennett's, Chisolm's, West
Point
19.Bennett's location? - Correct Answer: On Concord St, east end of
Wentworth St. (behind Harris Teeter on East Bay St.) Facade still standing
20.Chisolm's location? - Correct Answer: West end of Tradd St, present day
Coast Guard Station
21.West Point location? - Correct Answer: Present day Municipal Marina.
Built in 1860.
, 22.Name the signers of the Declaration of Independence? - Correct
Answer: Thomas Heyward, Thomas Lynch, Edward Rutledge, Arthur
Middleton
23.Name the signers of the US Constitution? - Correct Answer: John
Rutledge, Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
24.Name 3 important ministers and their denominations and important facts? -
Correct Answer: John Bachman- minister at St. John's Lutheran. Friend
of James Audubon
Samuel Gilman- Unitarian. Involved in Revolutionary War. Wrote "Fair
Harvard" for his alma mater.
Richard Furman- First Baptist. Established Furman University.
25.Name the 7 Harbor Forts? - Correct Answer: Ft. Sumter, Ft. Johnson, Ft.
Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, Ft. Mechanic, Ft. Brouten, Ft. Wilkerson
26.Ft. Sumter important facts? - Correct Answer: Center of CHS harbor.
Named for Thomas Sumter, Revolutionary War hero. Construction began in
1829 as part of a federal project. Man-made island on a sand-bar. First shot
of Civil War was fired from Ft. Johnson to Ft. Sumter. Edmund Ruffin alleged
to have fired first shot. Maj. Robert Anderson was Federal commander at Ft.
Sumter. Gen. Beaureguard was the Commander Gen of Confederate forces.
Beaureguard had been a student of Anderson's at West Point. Abner
Doubleday is said to have fired first return shot for the North. Federal siege
of CHS longest in modern warfare from April 1863 to Feb 17, 1865 (501
days).
