Antebellum Review Game

Antebellum
Review Game

Questions

What is the meaning of the term
Antebellum?

A. Against a war
B. The time after the Civil War
C. The time before the Civil War
D. Before bed time

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Study the graphic organizer to answer the question.

Which title best completes this graphic organizer? Go Home
A Elite Class
B Independent Farmers
C Lower Class
D Skilled Workers

Which cash crop became important to South
Carolina’s economy during the Antebellum period?

A indigo
B tobacco
C cotton
D rice

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Which statement best explains why slaves were
important to planters?

A Slaves could grow many kinds of crops
B Slaves could work in the fields and their houses.
C Having slaves made them feel powerful.
D Slaves knew how to read and write.

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of
the independent farmers?

A owned small farms
B worked alongside their slaves
C lived in one room cabins with dirt floors
D sometimes were able to join the elite class with their
success

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Who invented the cotton gin?

A Eli Whitney
B George Washington
C Thomas Sumter
D Abraham Lincoln

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Who carried freedom papers?

A Independent farmers
B Enslaved African Americans
C Free African Americans
D Lower Class

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9. Which title best completes the chart below?

A Lower Class Go Home
B Middle Class
C Independent Farmers
D Elite Class

Green Triangle

Which statement best describes the middle class during the
Antebellum period?

A They usually did not own land, had few skills, and

sometimes hired slaves.

B They owned small farms, worked the land, and sometimes

owned a few slaves.

C They were large land owners, owned 20 or more slaves,

and often sent their children to private school.

D They usually lived in cities and towns, may have owned few

slaves, and were merchants, tradesmen, and

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Use the following chart to answer the question. Green Square

Which statement is TRUE about the chart?
A The slave population decreased as cotton production increased.
B Cotton production decreased as the slave population increased.
C The slave population and cotton production both increased over time.
D Cotton production increased while the slave population decreased.

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Green Rectangle

Which of the following is NOT a job that a middle
class person would have?

A plantation owner
B merchant
C tradesmen
D doctor

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Green Circle

The invention of the cotton gin led to what?

A the expansion of slavery
B the end of slavery
C the lower class acquiring more slaves
D the middle class moving out of state

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Purple Triangle

Which of the following is an effect of the invention
of the cotton gin?

A less slaves were needed to pick cotton
B more people realized slavery was wrong
C nothing changed due to the invention
D more slaves were needed to harvest cotton

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Which social class probably lived in this type ofPurple Square
home?

A Lower Class Go Home
B Elite Class
C Free African Americans
D Enslaved African Americans

Purple Rectangle

Which was NOT effect of the invention of the
cotton gin?

A slavery expanded west
B cotton production increased
C slaves were freed by their masters
D plantation owners became more wealthy

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Purple Circle

What does merchant mean?
A. Doctor
B. Plantation owner
C. Salesman
D. Slave

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