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Life in the South

Authored by Tracy Schuster

History

8th - 9th Grade

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Life in the South
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Southern economy depended most heavily on:

Manufacturing
Farming
Cattle Herding
Ship building

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The most important cash crop in the South (by 1860) was:

Cotton
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Half of all slave owners had about how many slaves?

More than ten
Fewer than five
Between 20-30

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When people didn't want to do "slave work," they rented out their land to white farmers known as:

Tenant Farmers
Yoemen
Slave Drivers
Plantation Farmers

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A person who owned farmland, but didn't own slaves was called:

a Tenant Farmer
a Yoeman
a Plantation owner
a sharecropper

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to followers of State's Rights, who or what should determine the fate of slavery in the South?

The US government
The people of the US (through a vote)
The governments of the states that practiced slavery.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What were some Southern leaders threatening to do if the North and South couldn't agree on things such as slavery and state's rights?

To go to war
To stop trading with the North
To leave the US and become independent
To stop growing cotton

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