WorksheetsCivil War and Antebellum Test Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who made up the elite social class in South Carolina during the antebellum time period?
Doctors and Lawyers
Planters and Traders
Merchants and Yeoman Farmers
What type of communities made up most of South Carolina during the antebellum time period?
Rural farms
Urban cities
None of the above
What do you call a skilled worker such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter, or blacksmith?
Yeoman
Artist
Merchant
What group of people made up the largest part of South Carolina’s population before the Civil War?
Artisans
Planters
Slaves
The _____________was several secret routes enslaved people used to escape to the North and Canada.
Slave Railroad
Secret Railroad
Underground Railroad
Underground System
What was the most important cash crop before the Civil War in South Carolina?
Cotton
Tobacco
Rice
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in South Carolina?
More slaves were needed on the plantations because they began growing more cotton.
Planters began to pay the slaves to work in the fields.
Slaves began to move to the cities where they could find better paying jobs.
Who invented the cotton gin?
John C. Calhoun
Eli Whitney
Robert E. Lee
Why were leaders of South Carolina against the election of Abraham Lincoln?
They were afraid that he would try to start a new country in the North.
They were afraid that he would end slavery in the western territories.
They feared that he would end slavery throughout the United States.
Why were many South Carolinians concerned about the abolitionist movement?
Abolitionists had helped many enslaved people to escape to freedom.
Abolitionists had ended slavery in the South.
None of the above
South Carolina was the _______________ state to secede from the Union.
Second
Tenth
First
What did the Southern states call themselves after they seceded?
The Southern States of America
The Confederate States of America
The Divided States of America
Who was the leader of the southern states after the secession?
John C. Calhoun
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Cowpens
Bull Run
Who was the Union general that marched his army through the South, leaving behind burned buildings and ruined land? His troops were also responsible for the destruction in Columbia to our State House.
General Thomas Sumter
General William Sherman
General Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the general of the Confederate Army?
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
General William Sherman
