Class of People
These people were land rich.
Who are the elite?
These people competed with slaves for jobs.
Who is the lower class?
Crops that are grown to be sold.
What are cash crops?
These people defended slavery because they aspired to one day achieve the status of elite.
Who are the middle class?
South Carolinians who spoke against slavery were not accepted by____.
What is society?
These people paid special taxes and carried freedom papers everywhere they went.
Who are the Free African Americans?
This class owned 20 or more slaves.
Who are the elite?
The cotton gin led to an expansion of this.
What is slavery?
S.C. chose to secede from this.
What is the Union?
Abolitionists also provided resting places for escaping slaves along this.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This class was tradesmen, shopkeepers, merchants, and attorneys.
Who are the middle class?
These people carried a pass issued by their master to travel from one plantation to another.
Who are Enslaved African Americans?
This became increasingly important to the economy of South Carolina.
What is cotton?
He proposed to halt the spread of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This became a topic of national discussion during the antebellum period.
What is slavery?
These people weren't paid, but they were given clothes and food.
Who are Enslaved African Americans?
Who is the lower class?
This man invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
A movement to do this in the United States began to grow.
What is abolish slavery?
Abraham Lincoln did not advocate this.
What is ending slavery?
These people worked their land with the the slaves (if they had any).
Who are Independent Farmers?
These people were freed by their master or bought their freedom.
Who are Free African Americans?
The cotton gin made it easier to pick this from the cotton.
What are seeds?
The states' rights was an idea that each state had the right to decide whether or not to obey this.
What is National Laws?
These sisters were forced to leave S.C.
Who are the Grimke sisters?