Following the Civil War, what was the primary reason many South Carolinians moved from working on farms to working in textile mills?

Falling crop prices and the failure of the sharecropping system

A desire to move to large northern cities like New York

The discovery of gold in the Upcountry region

A state law that banned farming for former sharecroppers

Before the 1920s, what were the primary reasons why many textile mills moved from the New England states to the South Carolina Upcountry?

A desire to escape the high taxes and strict labor regulations found in Northern states.

The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney which made harvesting faster in the 1920s.

The discovery of large gold deposits in the Piedmont region that funded factory construction.

The total shift of the state's economy from agriculture to high-tech manufacturing by 1900.

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The expansion of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The expansion of the war into Cambodia, Laos and North Vietnam, 1969-1972

The expansion of the war

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