CHARLESTON TOUR GUIDE
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 years that hurricane hit. - Correct Answer: 1698, 1699, twice in
1752 (2 weeks apart), 1813, 1822, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1940, 1959 (Gracie),
1989 (Hugo)
2. Name thwarted 1822 slave revolt. - Correct Answer: Denmark Vesey
3. Date that Reformed Society of Israelites was formed. - Correct Answer:
November 21, 1824.
4. First US VP to resign. - Correct Answer: John C. Calhoun under Andrew
Jackson. Calhoun also VP under John Adams in 1824.
5. Largest sea island cotton crop and second largest rice crop both in what
year? - Correct Answer: 1828
6. Nullification Controversey was in response to what? - Correct Answer:
1828 and 1832 tariffs.
,7. Longest railway in the world (at time) was completed in what year? -
Correct Answer: 1832.
8. How long was railway and where did it go? - Correct Answer: 136 miles
from Charleston to Hamburg.
9. What happend to St. Philip's in 1835? - Correct Answer: Destroyed by
fire.
10.how many acres did 1838 fire cover and how many building damaged? -
Correct Answer: 144 acres. almost 1,000 buildings easteward from King St.
to Ansonborough.
11.First municipal college and year city funded it. - Correct Answer: College
of Charleston. 1839.
12.What was built as result of Denmark Vesey revolt? - Correct Answer: SC
Arsensal.
13.What year was Citadel established and where? - Correct Answer: 1842.
On grounds of SC Arsenal.
14.Date that Ordinance of Secession was signed? - Correct Answer:
December 20, 1860.
,15.Where was Ordinance of Secesssion signed? - Correct Answer: Insitute
Hall.
16.what and when started Civil War? - Correct Answer: Firing on Fort
Sumter April 12, 1861.
17.When was worst fire? Where? - Correct Answer: December 11, 1861.
Diagnoal path from Cooper to Ashley rivers.
18.Who founded first Reformed Jewish congregations? - Correct Answer:
Members of K.K. Beth Elohim
19.What Did Robert Smalls do? What was the date? - Correct Answer: On
May 13, 1862, he seized Confederate ship Planter and along with 12 other
slaves delivered it to Union quadron blockading the harbor.
20.Who led 54th Mass? - Correct Answer: Col. Robert Gould.
21.What did 54th Mass do, and what was date? - Correct Answer: Led
assault on Battery Wagner in 1863.
22.When did Union bombardment of Charleston begin? - Correct Answer:
August 1863.
23.How long did Ubion bombardment last? - Correct Answer: 18 months
, 24.Year that Jeff Davis visited Charleston. Where did he stay? - Correct
Answer: 1863. Stayed at Gov. William Aiken Jr's house at 48 Elizabeth St.
25.What did Hunley do and when? - Correct Answer: Sank Houstatonic on
February 17, 1864.
26.How many days did union seige last? - Correct Answer: 545 days
27.Month and year that Union occupation started? - Correct Answer:
February 1865
28.What booming industry started in 1867? - Correct Answer: Phosphate
29.what mayor expands parks and other public services and when? -
Correct Answer: William Ashmead Courenay in 1879
30.When did big earthquake happen? - Correct Answer: 1886.
31.How many died in earthquake? - Correct Answer: almost 100.
32.What happened in Hamton Park in 1902? - Correct Answer: Interstate
and West Indian Expo.
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 years that hurricane hit. - Correct Answer: 1698, 1699, twice in
1752 (2 weeks apart), 1813, 1822, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1940, 1959 (Gracie),
1989 (Hugo)
2. Name thwarted 1822 slave revolt. - Correct Answer: Denmark Vesey
3. Date that Reformed Society of Israelites was formed. - Correct Answer:
November 21, 1824.
4. First US VP to resign. - Correct Answer: John C. Calhoun under Andrew
Jackson. Calhoun also VP under John Adams in 1824.
5. Largest sea island cotton crop and second largest rice crop both in what
year? - Correct Answer: 1828
6. Nullification Controversey was in response to what? - Correct Answer:
1828 and 1832 tariffs.
,7. Longest railway in the world (at time) was completed in what year? -
Correct Answer: 1832.
8. How long was railway and where did it go? - Correct Answer: 136 miles
from Charleston to Hamburg.
9. What happend to St. Philip's in 1835? - Correct Answer: Destroyed by
fire.
10.how many acres did 1838 fire cover and how many building damaged? -
Correct Answer: 144 acres. almost 1,000 buildings easteward from King St.
to Ansonborough.
11.First municipal college and year city funded it. - Correct Answer: College
of Charleston. 1839.
12.What was built as result of Denmark Vesey revolt? - Correct Answer: SC
Arsensal.
13.What year was Citadel established and where? - Correct Answer: 1842.
On grounds of SC Arsenal.
14.Date that Ordinance of Secession was signed? - Correct Answer:
December 20, 1860.
,15.Where was Ordinance of Secesssion signed? - Correct Answer: Insitute
Hall.
16.what and when started Civil War? - Correct Answer: Firing on Fort
Sumter April 12, 1861.
17.When was worst fire? Where? - Correct Answer: December 11, 1861.
Diagnoal path from Cooper to Ashley rivers.
18.Who founded first Reformed Jewish congregations? - Correct Answer:
Members of K.K. Beth Elohim
19.What Did Robert Smalls do? What was the date? - Correct Answer: On
May 13, 1862, he seized Confederate ship Planter and along with 12 other
slaves delivered it to Union quadron blockading the harbor.
20.Who led 54th Mass? - Correct Answer: Col. Robert Gould.
21.What did 54th Mass do, and what was date? - Correct Answer: Led
assault on Battery Wagner in 1863.
22.When did Union bombardment of Charleston begin? - Correct Answer:
August 1863.
23.How long did Ubion bombardment last? - Correct Answer: 18 months
, 24.Year that Jeff Davis visited Charleston. Where did he stay? - Correct
Answer: 1863. Stayed at Gov. William Aiken Jr's house at 48 Elizabeth St.
25.What did Hunley do and when? - Correct Answer: Sank Houstatonic on
February 17, 1864.
26.How many days did union seige last? - Correct Answer: 545 days
27.Month and year that Union occupation started? - Correct Answer:
February 1865
28.What booming industry started in 1867? - Correct Answer: Phosphate
29.what mayor expands parks and other public services and when? -
Correct Answer: William Ashmead Courenay in 1879
30.When did big earthquake happen? - Correct Answer: 1886.
31.How many died in earthquake? - Correct Answer: almost 100.
32.What happened in Hamton Park in 1902? - Correct Answer: Interstate
and West Indian Expo.
