8-4 to 8-7 quiz

How did the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 affect the slave population in South Carolina?

• The population stayed around the same, but more slaves were sold in the West.

• Less work was needed to remove seeds from cotton, the slave population 

  decreased.

• The slave population declined in the upstate, but increased in Lowcountry rice 

  plantations.

• As short-staple cotton became a viable cash crop, the slave population grew all 

  over the state.

What did the plantation economy of South Carolina depend on?

• manufacturing

• agriculture and slavery

• factories and agriculture

• industry and textile mills

Slavery increased greatly in South Carolina with the invention of the cotton gin. Who invented the cotton gin?

• Henry Clay

• Eli Whitney

• John C. Calhoun

• Alexander Graham Bell

The word “antebellum” refers to which time period in the United States?

• after the Civil War

• before the Civil War

• before the Revolutionary War

• immediately after the Revolutionary War

Which of the following statements is true about slave owners in South Carolina in 1860?

• South Carolina had the lowest percentage of slave-holders in the nation.

• Most people owned one or two slaves, but planters owned more than fifty.

• Most people did not own slaves, but the majority of slave-owners owned only

   one or two.

• Nearly half of the men in the state were defined as planters, who owned fifty or 

  more slaves.

The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and the Fugitive Slave law were favorable to whom?

• slaves

• abolitionist

• northerners

• slave owners

What idea involves the local interests of one group or region over the country as a whole?

• tyranny

• socialism

• succession

• sectionalism

What population shifts led to racial tension in the South?

• Men outnumbered women.

• Africans outnumbered whites.

• Whites outnumbered Africans.

• Whites and Africans were about equal in number.

How did the Denmark Vesey Plot, the Stono Rebellion and Nat Turner’s Rebellion influence South Carolinians?

• Slaves began to receive more freedom.

• Whites became even more afraid of their slaves

• Free black men were able to gain more political power.

• White southerners began to think about possibly abolishing slavery.

Why did the southern states have such a fear and hatred for the Abolitionist Movement?

• White southerners were unable to pick cotton themselves.

• All southerners were slave-owners, and they loved the power it gave them.

• The end of slavery would mean that the southern economy would have to

   completely change.

• Southerners knew if the Abolitionist Movement was successful, slaves would 

  lose their families.