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Antebellum Period

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which cash crop helped improve South Carolina's Economy during the Antebellum period?

a)

Cotton

b)

Corn

c)

Rice

2.

Independent Farmers lived on these

a)

Plantations

b)

Small Farms

c)

Cities

3.

This group of people were unpaid for their labor and worked from sunrise to sunset.

a)

Free African Americans

b)

Elite Class

c)

Slaves

d)

Lower Class

4.

What invention by Eli Whitney helped to clean the seeds out of cotton?

a)

Cotton Gin

b)

Cotton Cleaner

c)

Tractor

d)

Cotton Harvestor

5.

How would you describe the Elite class?

a)

Wealthy

b)

Influential

c)

Politically Powerful

d)

All of the above

6.

What was the term that described the large farms that the elite lived on?

a)

Islands

b)

Farms

c)

Plantations

7.

The middle class mostly lived in these places...

a)

Cities and Towns

b)

Coastal Zone

c)

Plantations

d)

Beaches

8.

A term for the job held by the middle class who are like salesman.

a)

Blacksmith

b)

Merchants

c)

Lawyers

d)

Tradesmen

9.

Th Lower Class could be described as this because they had no trade or schooling.

a)

Uneducated and unskilled

b)

Store Owners

c)

Very influential on society

10.

What does the term antebellum mean?

a)

The Civil War

b)

Social Classes

c)

A word describing South Carolina

d)

Period of time before the Civil War

11.

Free African Americans had to carry these to prove they were free.

a)

Birth Certificate

b)

Freedom Papers

c)

a South Carolina ID

d)

Papers proving they paid their taxes

12.

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

a)

George Washington

b)

Andrew Pickens

c)

Miss. Leck

d)

Eli Whitney

13.

A crop sold for profit. Rice, Cotton, and Indigo are examples of this.

a)

Cash Crop

b)

Money Maker

c)

Golden Crop

14.

Which social class owned 20 or more slaves to work on their plantations?

a)

Elite Class

b)

Middle Class

c)

Lower Class

15.

This class of people were not rich, but they were not poor either. They owned a few slaves.

a)

Elite Class

b)

Lower Class

c)

Independent Farmers

d)

Middle Class

16.

This class of people had small farms and worked alongside their slaves if they owned any.

a)

Elite Class

b)

Independent Farmers

c)

Free African Americans

d)

Lower Class

17.

Which was an effect of the cotton gin?

a)

More slaves were bought due to the increase in cotton production.

b)

Slavery was not allowed in any states

c)

Farmers began to stop buying slaves