Week 21 - The Antebellum Period

From Auntie Bellum? Who's That?: What does the word antebellum mean?

• After a war

• During a war

• Before a war

From Life in the Antebellum Period - North vs. South: Was the south full of major cities or was it mostly rural?

• Major cities

• Mostly rural

From Life in the Antebellum Period - North vs. South: Did people in the South work mostly on farms or mostly in factories?

• Mostly on farms

• Mostly in factories

From The Antebellum South: Did people living on rural farms mostly buy the tools they needed or did they mostly make the tools themselves?

• Bought them from a store

• Made the tools themselves

From The Antebellum South: The three groups (or classes) in the South in order from richest to poorest were what?

• American Indians, planters, white farmers

• White farmers, slaves, planters

• Slaves, American Indians, white farmers

• Planters, white farmers, and then slaves

From The Antebellum South: The economy of the South was all about cotton, so it was known by the nickname ________

• Cotton Monarchy

• Cotton Kingdom

• Cotton Land

• Cotton Palace

From The Antebellum South: Before machines were invented to harvest cotton, it had to be picked by hand. In the South, slaves sometimes did this work.

Were these slaves paid for their work or not?

• They were paid

• They were not paid

From The Antebellum South: There were a large amount of plantation owners in the South and most white farmers were rich.

• True

• False

From The Antebellum South: In the South, goods were mostly moved by trains instead of steamboats

• True

• False

From The Life of a Slave: As much as ______ of the population of the South was made up of enslaved African Americans

• 2/3

• 1/4

• 3/4

• 1/3