Social Classes
This group owned at least 500 acres of land and 20 slaves.
Who were the elite?
Most African Americans were _________, which means they were considered to be the property of others.
What is slaves or enslaved?
Cotton is used to make this.
What is fabric or textiles?
In what region is SC's capital located?
What is the Midlands?
This word means "before a war".
What is antebellum?
This group did manual work such as building canals and railroads.
Who was the lower class?
Free African Americans had to pay this to remain free.
What is a tax?
Eli Whitney invented this machine to help make it easier to clean cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This class owned slaves to help with household chores.
What is the middle class?
What is "Cotton is King"?
This group planted crops to feed their families and sold part of their crops to buy other things. The whole family worked the farm.
Who were independent farmers?
Most enslaved African Americans lived here.
What is on plantations?
A strong man or woman could pick this much cotton in a day.
What is 300-400 pounds?
This group had little to no education and little to no political or social power.
What is the lower class?
Slaves were not allowed to do this without a pass.
What is leave the plantation?
Teachers, nurses, and merchants were usually members of this class.
What is the middle class?
Most free African Americans lived here.
What is in cities (Charleston/Columbia)?
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What is near the plantations where their families were still enslaved?
What is cotton?
This group made up more than 55% of the population during the antebellum period.
What is enslaved African Americans?
These people looked for runaway slaves and others breaking the law.
What were "slave patrols"?
This group was the smallest, but the most powerful.
What is the elite?
It was illegal for people to teach enslaved Africans to do this.
What is read and write?
Cotton is a difficult crop because of this problem.
What is it is hard to clean/remove the seeds?
This caused a greater demand for slavery.
What is the invention of the cotton gin?
Near the end of the Antebellum period, these two locations had many disagreements over slavery.
What is the North and the South?