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Charleston Tour Guide Test| Actual Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Where and when was Interstate and West Indian Expo?-correct-answer-1901-02.
Wagener farm and Washington Race Course.
What is only remaining structure - and where - of Interstate and West Indian
Expo?-correct-answer-Bandstand at Hampton Park
Which President attended Interstate Expo?-correct-answer-Theodore Roosevelt
What did 1911 hurricane do?-correct-answer-destroyed last of rice industry.
Two reasons cotton industry died by 1920.-correct-answer-Boll weevil and mass
emigration of blacks to northeast and midwest urban centers
What was happening 1915-1945?-correct-answer-Charleston Renaissance.
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Which mayor expanded Charleston size from 5 to 18 square miles starting in
1959?-correct-answer-Gaillard
What year did Defense Dept call for closure of Navy Base?-correct-answer-1992
How many annual visitors do we have?-correct-answer-more than 4-million
When and why was Mayor's Walled City Task Force created?-correct-answer-
2005. to conduct digs to learn boundaries and features of fortifications.
Name some of the buildings where HCF-grant funded research was conducted.-
correct-answer-Powder Mag, Heyward-Washington House, Aiken-Rhett House,
Nat Russell house, Old Exchange, City Hall, site of Market Pavillion Hotel.
Where can you find artifacts and photos of HCF digs?-correct-answer-City Hall,
Old Exchange, Powder Mag, Market Pavillion Hotel, Chas Co Judicial Center, MUSC
INstitute of Psychiatry, Chas Museum
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Why were cisterns used to collect rainwater by 1850s?-correct-answer-urban
density and proximity of wells to privies contaminated groundwater.
HCH has protective easements on how many properties?-correct-answer-nearly
300
What is the Topper site?-correct-answer-in Allendale, SC. Evidence of human
occupation 50,000 years ago.
What is Stallings Island pottery?-correct-answer-earliest pottery in North America.
it is tempered with plant fiber.
By what date were local populations living in permanent settlements? What did
this represent?-correct-answer-by 800 AD. Subsisted on bean and maize
agricultural. represented height of cultural complexity before Europeans.
Who recorded chiefdoms in Carolinas was westward?-correct-answer-Hernando
de Soto in the 1540s.
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Where did Kiawah live?-correct-answer-along lower Ashley River... today's West
Ashley area.
What did the Kiawah give colonists?-correct-answer-Their primary village at
Albemarle Point.
Where did Coosaw live?-correct-answer-upper Ashley near Summerville
What was Cooper River originally called?-correct-answer-Etiwan
Where did Etiwan live?-correct-answer-Daniel Island and up Cooper River to
Moncks Corner
Where did Sewee live?-correct-answer-North of Etiwan to Santee River.
Other Native American groups in area?-correct-answer-Wando, Edisto, Sampa,
Stono.
Charleston Tour Guide Test| Actual Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Where and when was Interstate and West Indian Expo?-correct-answer-1901-02.
Wagener farm and Washington Race Course.
What is only remaining structure - and where - of Interstate and West Indian
Expo?-correct-answer-Bandstand at Hampton Park
Which President attended Interstate Expo?-correct-answer-Theodore Roosevelt
What did 1911 hurricane do?-correct-answer-destroyed last of rice industry.
Two reasons cotton industry died by 1920.-correct-answer-Boll weevil and mass
emigration of blacks to northeast and midwest urban centers
What was happening 1915-1945?-correct-answer-Charleston Renaissance.
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Which mayor expanded Charleston size from 5 to 18 square miles starting in
1959?-correct-answer-Gaillard
What year did Defense Dept call for closure of Navy Base?-correct-answer-1992
How many annual visitors do we have?-correct-answer-more than 4-million
When and why was Mayor's Walled City Task Force created?-correct-answer-
2005. to conduct digs to learn boundaries and features of fortifications.
Name some of the buildings where HCF-grant funded research was conducted.-
correct-answer-Powder Mag, Heyward-Washington House, Aiken-Rhett House,
Nat Russell house, Old Exchange, City Hall, site of Market Pavillion Hotel.
Where can you find artifacts and photos of HCF digs?-correct-answer-City Hall,
Old Exchange, Powder Mag, Market Pavillion Hotel, Chas Co Judicial Center, MUSC
INstitute of Psychiatry, Chas Museum
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Why were cisterns used to collect rainwater by 1850s?-correct-answer-urban
density and proximity of wells to privies contaminated groundwater.
HCH has protective easements on how many properties?-correct-answer-nearly
300
What is the Topper site?-correct-answer-in Allendale, SC. Evidence of human
occupation 50,000 years ago.
What is Stallings Island pottery?-correct-answer-earliest pottery in North America.
it is tempered with plant fiber.
By what date were local populations living in permanent settlements? What did
this represent?-correct-answer-by 800 AD. Subsisted on bean and maize
agricultural. represented height of cultural complexity before Europeans.
Who recorded chiefdoms in Carolinas was westward?-correct-answer-Hernando
de Soto in the 1540s.
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Where did Kiawah live?-correct-answer-along lower Ashley River... today's West
Ashley area.
What did the Kiawah give colonists?-correct-answer-Their primary village at
Albemarle Point.
Where did Coosaw live?-correct-answer-upper Ashley near Summerville
What was Cooper River originally called?-correct-answer-Etiwan
Where did Etiwan live?-correct-answer-Daniel Island and up Cooper River to
Moncks Corner
Where did Sewee live?-correct-answer-North of Etiwan to Santee River.
Other Native American groups in area?-correct-answer-Wando, Edisto, Sampa,
Stono.
