Antebellum Period

The Antebellum period particularly refers to the South in the late 1700s to 1865.

• True

• False

What does the Antebellum period pertain to?

• WWI

• WWII

• The institution of slavery

• The Civil War

Slaves in the Middle & New England Colonies were treated just as badly as the slaves in the South.

• True

• False

Select all of the jobs that black people had during the Antebellum period.

• Masonry/Shipbuilding

• Goldsmiths

• Glaziers/Nannies

• Farmers

Cash crops during this period were tobacco, ____, cotton, and indigo.

Rice and Indigo were essential to which state's economy?

• Florida

• New York

• Maryland

• South Carolina

The planation system became the ______ of the southern economy.

Eli Whitney was credited with the invention of the Cotton Gin in 1793.

• True

• False

Cotton was the leading American export form 1803 to 1937.

• False

• True

Farmers began to move westward, and expand slavery into which states?

• Alabama

• Missouri

• Arkansas

• Texas