Antebellum Period

Which cash crop helped improve South Carolina's Economy during the Antebellum period?

• Cotton

• Corn

• Rice

Independent Farmers lived on these

• Plantations

• Small Farms

• Cities

This group of people were unpaid for their labor and worked from sunrise to sunset.

• Free African Americans

• Elite Class

• Slaves

• Lower Class

What invention by Eli Whitney helped to clean the seeds out of cotton?

• Cotton Gin

• Cotton Cleaner

• Tractor

• Cotton Harvestor

How would you describe the Elite class?

• Wealthy

• Influential

• Politically Powerful

• All of the above

What was the term that described the large farms that the elite lived on?

• Islands

• Farms

• Plantations

The middle class mostly lived in these places...

• Cities and Towns

• Coastal Zone

• Plantations

• Beaches

A term for the job held by the middle class who are like salesman.

• Blacksmith

• Merchants

• Lawyers

• Tradesmen

Th Lower Class could be described as this because they had no trade or schooling.

• Uneducated and unskilled

• Store Owners

• Very influential on society

What does the term antebellum mean?

• The Civil War

• Social Classes

• A word describing South Carolina

• Period of time before the Civil War