Answer:
The Progressive Movement came to the state with Governor Richard Irvine Manning III in 1914. The expansion of bright-leaf tobacco around 1900 from North Carolina brought an agricultural boom. This was broken by the Great Depression starting in 1929, but the tobacco industry recovered and prospered until near the end of the 20th century. Cotton remained by far the dominant crop, despite low prices. The arrival of boll weevil infestation sharply reduced acreage, and especially yields. Farmers shifted to other crops.
Step-by-step explanation:
Tobacco was huge in South Carolina at that moment in time so many people went to make money off of it, then the great depression rolled along and ruined everything but once it ended the tobacco industry made a come back.