Antebellum period

Which classes could NOT send their children to school? 

• Freed African American and Elite Class
• Middle Class and Elite Class
• Elite Class and Enslaved African Americans
• Independent Farmers and Lower Class

How were the Lower Class and the Enslaved African- Americans similar?

• Both classes were uneducated.
• Both classes were free.
• Both classes went to private school.
• Both classes had political influence. 

Which class of people worked from sun up to sun down in the fields without pay?

• Elite Class
• Enslaved African Americans
• Free African Americans
• Lower Class

The Elite Class had more political power than any other class during the antebellum period. What laws did they work to protect? 

• laws on growing crops.
• laws on protecting slavery
• laws on cultivating cotton and rice
• laws on ending slavery

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Jefferson Davis
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

How did the cotton gin affect slavery?

• It increased the number of slaves.
• The slaves did not have to work that much.
• It ended the institution of slavery
• Fewer slaves were brought onto the plantations. 

Although many slaves did not own slaves, why did almost all South Carolinians accept slavery?

• It was not accepted.
• The governor said to have slaves
• It did not make any money.
• It was a way of life.

When he was first elected, Abraham Lincoln wanted to______________________.

• free all slaves
• stop the spread of slavery to the new territories
• end slavery in only South Carolina
• divide the United States

Who were two famous abolitionists (people who were working to end slavery in the US), they also ran newspapers that helped spread the word about slavery being unlawful and wrong?

• George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
• Drake and Donald Trump
• William L. Garrison and Frederick Douglass

Which act/compromise called for the admission of California as a free state, among other things?

• California Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Act of LA