S.C. History Standard 8-4 Review

used as a way to attract new settlers; New settlers  received 50 acres of land.

• headright system
• indentured servants
• manumission
• assimilation

The Southern economy during the colonial and Antebellum ears was based on:

• shipbuilding
• iron works
• agriculture
• mining

This lead to increased cotton production across South Carolina.  It also lead to an increase in slavery.

• drought
• cotton gin
• boll weevil
• The Great Depression

By 1860, South Carolina had the highest percentage of _____ in the nation.

• indentured servants
• slaves
• headright beneficiaries
• subsistence farmers

 A _____ is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit.

• culled crop
• cash crop
• truck crop
• subsistence crop

In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and South Carolina farmers had a new cash crop.  As a result they planted more cotton and became more dependent on _____.

• indentured servants
• the Regulator Movement
• subsistence farming
• slave labor

In 1810, South Carolina became the first state to give the vote to all _____.

• white males over the age of 21
• women over the age of 18
• white males over the age of 18
• freedmen over the age of 21

• cotton farming spread 
• Native American tribes grew rapidly in the South

Which of the following had the greatest effect on the institution of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s?

• Demands of Southern textile manufacturers for cotton
•  Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers
• Use of more stringent techniques of slave control
•  Invention of the cotton gin

to send (goods or services) to another country for sale

• import
• export
• migrate
• immigrate