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WorksheetsAntebellum Period
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which cash crop helped improve South Carolina's Economy during the Antebellum period?
Cotton
Corn
Rice
Independent Farmers lived on these
Plantations
Small Farms
Cities
This group of people were unpaid for their labor and worked from sunrise to sunset.
Free African Americans
Elite Class
Slaves
Lower Class
What invention by Eli Whitney helped to clean the seeds out of cotton?
Cotton Gin
Cotton Cleaner
Tractor
Cotton Harvestor
How would you describe the Elite class?
Wealthy
Influential
Politically Powerful
All of the above
What was the term that described the large farms that the elite lived on?
Islands
Farms
Plantations
The middle class mostly lived in these places...
Cities and Towns
Coastal Zone
Plantations
Beaches
A term for the job held by the middle class who are like salesman.
Blacksmith
Merchants
Lawyers
Tradesmen
Th Lower Class could be described as this because they had no trade or schooling.
Uneducated and unskilled
Store Owners
Very influential on society
What does the term antebellum mean?
The Civil War
Social Classes
A word describing South Carolina
Period of time before the Civil War
Free African Americans had to carry these to prove they were free.
Birth Certificate
Freedom Papers
a South Carolina ID
Papers proving they paid their taxes
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
George Washington
Andrew Pickens
Miss. Leck
Eli Whitney
A crop sold for profit. Rice, Cotton, and Indigo are examples of this.
Cash Crop
Money Maker
Golden Crop
Which social class owned 20 or more slaves to work on their plantations?
Elite Class
Middle Class
Lower Class
This class of people were not rich, but they were not poor either. They owned a few slaves.
Elite Class
Lower Class
Independent Farmers
Middle Class
This class of people had small farms and worked alongside their slaves if they owned any.
Elite Class
Independent Farmers
Free African Americans
Lower Class
Which was an effect of the cotton gin?
More slaves were bought due to the increase in cotton production.
Slavery was not allowed in any states
Farmers began to stop buying slaves
