Antebellum Period

Choose all of the social classes that owned slaves.

• Elite Class

• Middle Class

• Enslaved African Americans

• Independent Farmers

Choose all of the options that would describe the elite class.

• owned large plantations

• were very poor

• were very wealthy

• owned 20 or more slaves

Which class usually lived in cities and towns and were merchants, tradesmen, and doctors.

• lower class

• middle class

• enslaved African Americans

• independent farmers

What is the meaning of the word antebellum?

• the time when everyone fought

• the time after the civil war

• the time before the civil war

• before bedtime

Which cash crop became important to SC's economy during the Antebellum Period?

• tobacco

• rice

• indigo

• cotton

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Sumter

• Eli Whitney

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

Who carried freedom papers?

• Lower Class

• Free African Americans

• Independent Farmers

• Elite Class

The invention of the cotton gin led to what?

• the middle class moving out of the state

• the expansion of slavery

• the end of slavery

• the lower class getting rich

Select the choices that would describe the lower class.

• very poor

• uneducated and unskilled

• lived on plantations

• did not own their own land

Which social class lived in one room cabins with dirt floors?

• enslaved African Americans

• elite class

• middle class

• independent farmers