Investment in the city continued. The William Enston Home, a planned community for the city's aged and infirm, was built in 1889. An elaborate public building, the United States Post Office and Courthouse, was completed by the federal government in 1896 in the heart of the city. The Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a new constitution in 1895 that disfranchised blacks, effectively excluding them entirely from the political process, a second-class status that was maintained for more than six decades in a state that was majority black until about 1930. COUNT 5
QSN1 Which party dominated South Carolina's state legislature? ANS1 Democrat QSN2 What year was a new constitution passed that discriminated against blacks were passed? ANS2 1896 QSN3 The William Enston Home was built in what year? ANS3 1889. QSN4 Blacks were the majority in South Carolina until what year? ANS4 1930 QSN5 A large post office and courthouse was built in what year? ANS5 1896