Charleston Tour Guide Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Name years that hurricane hit. - Correct Answers ✅1698, 1699, twice in 1752 (2 weeks apart), 1813, 1822, 1886, 1893, 1911, 1940, 1959 (Gracie), 1989 (Hugo) Name thwarted 1822 slave revolt. - Correct Answers ✅Denmark Vesey Date that Reformed Society of Israelites was formed. - Correct Answers ✅November 21, 1824.First US VP to resign. - Correct Answers ✅John C. Calhoun under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun also VP under John Adams in 1824.Largest sea island cotton crop and second largest rice crop both in what year? - Correct Answers ✅1828 Nullification Controversey was in response to what? - Correct Answers ✅1828 and 1832 tariffs.Longest railway in the world (at time) was completed in what year? - Correct Answers ✅1832.How long was railway and where did it go? - Correct Answers ✅136 miles from Charleston to Hamburg. 1 / 4
Charleston Tour Guide Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) What happend to St. Philip's in 1835? - Correct Answers ✅Destroyed by fire.how many acres did 1838 fire cover and how many building damaged? - Correct Answers ✅144 acres. almost 1,000 buildings easteward from King St. to Ansonborough.First municipal college and year city funded it. - Correct Answers ✅College of Charleston. 1839.What was built as result of Denmark Vesey revolt? - Correct Answers ✅SC Arsensal.What year was Citadel established and where? - Correct Answers ✅1842. On grounds of SC Arsenal.Date that Ordinance of Secession was signed? - Correct Answers ✅December 20, 1860.Where was Ordinance of Secesssion signed? - Correct Answers ✅Insitute Hall.what and when started Civil War? - Correct Answers ✅Firing on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861. 2 / 4
Charleston Tour Guide Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) When was worst fire? Where? - Correct Answers ✅December 11, 1861. Diagnoal path from Cooper to Ashley rivers.Who founded first Reformed Jewish congregations? - Correct Answers ✅Members of K.K. Beth Elohim What Did Robert Smalls do? What was the date? - Correct Answers ✅On May 13, 1862, he seized Confederate ship Planter and along with 12 other slaves delivered it to Union quadron blockading the harbor.Who led 54th Mass? - Correct Answers ✅Col. Robert Gould.What did 54th Mass do, and what was date? - Correct Answers ✅Led assault on Battery Wagner in 1863.When did Union bombardment of Charleston begin? - Correct Answers ✅August 1863.How long did Ubion bombardment last? - Correct Answers ✅18 months 3 / 4
Charleston Tour Guide Test Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Year that Jeff Davis visited Charleston. Where did he stay? - Correct Answers ✅1863. Stayed at Gov. William Aiken Jr's house at 48 Elizabeth St.What did Hunley do and when? - Correct Answers ✅Sank Houstatonic on February 17, 1864.How many days did union seige last? - Correct Answers ✅545 days Month and year that Union occupation started? - Correct Answers ✅February 1865 What booming industry started in 1867? - Correct Answers ✅Phosphate what mayor expands parks and other public services and when? - Correct Answers ✅William Ashmead Courenay in 1879 When did big earthquake happen? - Correct Answers
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How many died in earthquake? - Correct Answers ✅almost
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