Question: What was the British hoping to inspire by their attack on Charles Town?
Answer: a simultaneous Loyalist uprising

Question: Fort Sullivan was renamed  what after the battle?
Answer: Fort Moultrie

Question: What was the greatest American defeat of the American Revolution?
Answer: Siege of Charles Towne

Question: How many soldiers did General Clinton return with?
Answer: 14,000

Question: In what year did General Clinton return to Charles Towne?
Answer: 1780

Question: Who was the leader of the American forces defending Charles Towne?
Answer: General Benjamin Lincoln

Question: How many soldiers did General Lincoln lead?
Answer: 5,400

Question: What city became the state capital of South Carolina?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Charleston was the state capital of South Carolina until what year?
Answer: 1786

Question: In what year was the cotton gin invented?
Answer: 1793

Question: What became South Carolina's major export commodity after 1793?
Answer: cotton

Question: Who made up most of the primary labor force of cotton plantations? 
Answer: Slaves

Question: How many free people of color lived in Charleston in 1860?
Answer: 3,785

Question: What percentage of Charleston's population were free people of color?
Answer: 8%

Question: What percentage of Charleston's black population were free people of color?
Answer: 18%

Question: In what year was the Brown Fellowship Society created?
Answer: 1790

Question: In what year did the Brown Fellowship Society end?
Answer: 1945

Question: What was planned by Denmark Vesey?
Answer: slave revolt

Question: When was Vesey's plan for a slave revolt revealed?
Answer: May 1822

Question: How was Vesey executed in 1822?
Answer: hanged

Question: How many slaves were executed with Vesey? 
Answer: five slaves

Question: What revolution made whites fearful of retribution of slaves?
Answer: Haitian Revolution

Question: Black left which religious denomination is great numbers after slavery?
Answer: Southern Baptist Church

Question: How many African Americans lived in Charleston in 1860?
Answer: 17,000

Question: What  barred product ,along with dogs and guns ,  did the Freemen want after slavery ended?
Answer: liquor

Question: How many African American lived in Charleston in 1880?
Answer: 27,000

Question: AME Zion Churches were first established in what part of America?
Answer: the North

Question: What association founded the Avery Normal Institute?
Answer: the American Missionary Association

Question: What type of school was the Avery Normal Institute?
Answer: free secondary school

Question: Who attended the Avery Normal Institute?
Answer: Charleston's African American population

Question: What general supported the conversion of a US Arsenal into Porter Military Academy?
Answer: William T. Sherman

Question: Soldiers and boys helped by Porter Military Academy were affected by what?
Answer: war

Question: What percentage of Charleston's population was black in 1875?
Answer: 57%

Question: What percentage of Charleston County's was black in 1875?
Answer: 73%

Question: In 1876, Charleston's Black Republicans fought against whom?
Answer: white Democrats

Question: The second riot of 1876 happened when?
Answer: the day after the election in November

Question: How many major riots between blacks and whites occurred in Charleston in 1876?
Answer: two

Question: What were white Democratic paramilitary groups in Charleston known as?
Answer: the Red Shirts

Question: What granted Freeman were American citizenship?
Answer: federal constitutional amendments.

Question: The Cainhoy Incident occurred on what day?
Answer: October 15

Question: The violent 1876 incident that took place on King's street happened on what day?
Answer: September 6

Question: Who won the 1876 election as a result of voter intimidation?
Answer: Wade Hampton

Question: What nearly destroyed Charleston in 1886?
Answer: an earthquake

Question: What date was the Charleston earthquake of 1886?
Answer: August 31, 1886

Question: How many buildings were damaged by the 1886 earthquake in Charleston?
Answer: 2,000 buildings

Question: What was the cost of the damage of the 1886 earthquake to the city of Charleston?
Answer: $6 million

Question: What was the total value of all of Charleston's city buildings before the earthquake?
Answer: $24 million

Question: Which party dominated South Carolina's state legislature?
Answer: Democrat

Question: What year was a new constitution passed that discriminated against blacks were passed?
Answer: 1896

Question: The William Enston Home was built in what year?
Answer: 1889.

Question: Blacks were the majority in South Carolina until what year?
Answer: 1930

Question: A large post office and courthouse was built in what year?
Answer: 1896

Question: On what day were nine people killed in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?
Answer: June 17, 2015

Question: What was the name of 21 year old that killed nine church members in Charleston, South Carolina?
Answer: Dylann Roof

Question: Clementa Pinckney served what public office for the state of South Carolina?
Answer: state senator

Question: A memorial service for the nine victims was held on which college's campus?
Answer: College of Charleston

Question: On what day was the Confederate flag removed from South Carolina State House?
Answer: July 10, 2015

Question: What season is Spoleto Festival USA held?
Answer: spring

Question: Spoleto Festival USA is a counterpart to what Italian festival?
Answer: Festival dei Due Mondi

Question: What year was Spoleto Festival USA founded?
Answer: 1977

Question: What  the profession of Gian Carlo Menotti?
Answer: composer

Question: What major award did Gian Carlo Menotti win?
Answer: Pulitzer Prize

Question: What is Charleston's oldest community theater group?
Answer: the Footlight Players

Question: Where is the  annual Charleston Fashion week held?
Answer: Marion Square

Question: The Footlight Players  started creating theatrical productions in what year?
Answer: 1931

Question: Charleston is known for what type of food?
Answer: seafood

Question: Charleston cuisine is influenced by what two cultures?
Answer: British and French

Question: "Charleston's Provincialisms" was published in what year?
Answer: 1887

Question: To which two early cultures are the unique characteristics of Charleston's accent attributed to?
Answer: French Huguenots and Sephardic Jews

Question: To which college did Sylvester Primer belong?
Answer: College of Charleston

Question: Who was the author of the work entitled, "The Huguenot Element in Charleston's Provincialisms"?
Answer: Sylvester Primer

Question: What type of journal were Primer's work on Charleston's accent published?
Answer: German journal

Question: How many days does the Spoleto Festival USA run each year?
Answer: 17

Question: What kind of festival is Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: art festival

Question: The Holiday Festival of Lights are held where?
Answer: James Island County Park

Question: About how many performances are there in the Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: over 100 performances

Question: Who founded the Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: Gian Carlo Menotti

Question: Who wrote the "Charleston"?
Answer: Chris Smith

Question: What decade was the Charleston dance popular nationally?
Answer: 1920s

Question: Who created the song "Charleston Rag"?
Answer: Eubie Blake

Question: Which Charleston community had a large influence on jazz music?
Answer: the Gullah community

Question: Geechee dances are associated with the music of what type of worker?
Answer: dock workers

Question: What year was the Jenkins Orphanage created?
Answer: 1891

Question: What type of donations did the Jerkins Orphanage accept?
Answer: donations of musical instruments

Question: What Charleston Reverend established the Jenkins Orphanage?
Answer: Daniel J. Jenkins

Question: Whose graduates tutored many boys from the Jenkins Orphanage?
Answer: Avery Institute Graduates