Instructions: Type the correct word or words in the blanks to complete the facts about South Carolina.   If you type a space after your answer, it will look like it is correct, but it will be marked wrong.  Use the tab key to move from space to space.

1. The capital of South Carolina is ⁽¹⁾.
   
   
2. Three months and ten days before the ⁽²⁾ was signed, South Carolina declared itself sovereign from Britain and set up its own government with its own president.
   
3. South Carolina's ⁽³⁾ tradition runs deep.  Dizzy Gillespie, James Brown, and Chubby Checker all grew up in South Carolina.
   
   
4. In the 1920s, a jazz ensemble from the Jenkin's Orphanage traveled to New York City where they unveiled the ⁽⁴⁾, a dance that came to symbolize the Roaring Twenties.
   
   
5. The city of Charleston has been described as a living ⁽⁵⁾.  Its historic district is meticulously preserved and features some of the most beautiful homes in America.
   
   
6. The first ⁽⁶⁾ course was opened in the United States in Charleston in 1786.  It was named Harleston Green, and that's where the term "green fees" came from.
   
   
7. During the American Revolution, rebel forces constructed a ⁽⁷⁾ log fort and drove off an entire British fleet and sank two of the ships.  Its spongy wood was a perfect material for Fort Sullivan because it would absorb the shock of the British shot and shale.
   
   
8. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first southern state to succeed from the Union.  When federal troops refused to leave Charleston's Fort Sumpter in April 1861, the South Carolina militia unleashed an artillery barrage that lasted thirty-four hours, the first shots fired in the ⁽¹²⁾.
   
   
9. During this war, the South Carolinians developed a secret weapon that some thought could have changed the entire outcome of the war.  The Confederacy didn't have the ships that the Union had, so a man named Hunley and his team set out to build a ⁽⁹⁾ torpedo boat that could slip into Charleston Harbor and deliver its payload.
   
   
10. The Hunley rammed its bomb-loaded spar into the USS Housatonic.  The Union ship exploded and sank.  The Hunley had launched the first successful ⁽¹⁰⁾, attack in military history.  The little sub surfaced and signaled victory; then disappeared.
    
    
11. In 1995, the Hunley was located about four miles offshore.  A variety of artifacts were recovered from inside the vessel, including the skeletal ⁽¹¹⁾ of all eight crew members.
    
    
12. The Hunley's crew members were buried with full military ⁽¹²⁾ in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the Hunley itself still lives in a specially designed tank in Charleston.
    
    
13. Another remarkable historical treasure can be found on the isolated sea islands off the state's southern coast where you'll find the direct descendants of slaves who once labored on the islands' rice plantations.  The distinct culture of these native islanders is called ⁽¹³⁾, a combination of creole and West African languages and customs.
    
    
14. These sea island people retained many ⁽¹⁴⁾ traditions, which are evident in their cooking, woodcarving, and basket weaving.
    
    
15. Efforts to preserve the distinct dialect have resulted in a Gullah version of The ⁽¹⁵⁾ Testament.