Antebellum South and North

This image best shows the location of....

• states producing cotton (tan)

• states producing cotton (green)

• states producing tobacco (tan)

• states producing tobacco (green)

What does the term "antebellum" mean?

• industrialized North

• the time before the American Revolution

• the time before the Civil War

• the agrarian South

Southern cash crop of the antebellum period

• tobacco

• rice

• indigo

• cotton

Who is credited with inventing the cotton gin and the idea of interchangeable parts?

• Eli Davis

• John Rolfe

• Eli Whitney

• Nat Turner

Which of the following best explains the significance of the invention of the cotton gin?

• It increased the need for slave labor due to a decrease in cotton production

• It decreased the need for slave labor due to an increase in cotton production

• It decreased the need for slave labor due to a decrease in cotton production

• It increased the need for slave labor due to an increase in cotton production

Which of the following choices best reflect the definition of the word "textile"?

• the time before the Civil War

• how you answer a text message #chatsnap

• cloth woven from cotton

• the factories in the north

Which of the following best reflects why Memphis, Tennessee became a cotton center in the antebellum period?

• Its location in the Appalachian Mountains prevented it from growing cotton

• Its location on the Mississippi River allowed it to have multiple plantations and use the river as a way to trade goods, including slaves and cotton

• All answers are correct

• no answers are correct

Which of the following choices best reflects the social pyramid of Southern society? (first one listed being most powerful)

• slaves, poor whites, yeoman farmers, plantation owners

• plantation owners, slaves, poor whites, yeoman farmers

• yeoman farmers, plantation owners, slaves, poor whites

• plantation owners, yeoman farmers, poor whites, slaves

Who is described by the list below?

- owned a large number of slaves

- owned large farms (1000 acres+)

- overseers tended the slaves

- wife managed household

• slaves

• poor whites

• yeoman farmers

• plantation owners

Which group is best describe by the list below?

- owned few slaves

- family owned/worked farm

- smaller farms

• plantation owners

• slaves

• poor whites

• yeoman farmers