This class is made up of the most powerful and rich people in South Carolina
Elite Class
100
These people spoke out against slavery
Abolitionists
100
What was the new cash crop being grown in South Carolina after the Revolutionary War?
Cotton
100
What is a fight between two parts of the same country?
Civil War
100
This president was an abolitionist. When he was elected, Southerners were afraid that he would end slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
200
Whole families worked on the farm. Few owned a couple slaves to help.
Some children educated at home. Most were in the upstate of SC
Independent Farmers
200
What did the South's economy depend on?
Slavery
200
This machine cleans seeds from cotton.
Cotton Gin
200
Because South Carolina feared the growth of the abolitionists' movement and the concept of state’s rights, South Carolina _________ from the Union.
seceded
200
This guerilla fighter was known as the Swamp Fox
Francis Marion
300
This group worked with no pay, hard labor, cramped living conditions, few freedoms, were seen as property
Enslaved Africans
300
These sisters were not allowed back into South Carolina because of they were against slavery
Grimke Sisters
300
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
300
This means to break away from a country.
Secede
300
This tribe in the Piedmont was known for their pottery
Catawba
400
This group owned no land, but sometimes used others’ land to grow food for their family. Children not educated, hard to find jobs.
Lower Class
400
An organized system to assist and hide runaway slaves
Underground Railroad
400
Which group benefited the most from the cotton gin?
Elite, Middle Class, Lower Class, Independent Farmers, Slaves
Elite: planters and slave owners
400
South Carolina was the ______ state to secede from the Union
First
400
This region is located farther North and West than any other region
What is the Blue Ridge?
500
This group works in skilled labor, and is paid. They mostly were found in Charleston, but few farmed elsewhere in SC. Some educated at home, kept papers proving their freedom.
Freed African Americans
500
What did the Southern way of life support?
Slavery
500
What kind of climate is good for growing cotton?
Warm climate
500
The idea that states have the right to decide whether or not to obey national laws was called_______?