Antebellum Period
Vocabulary
Civil War
People
Misc.
100
What is the class that owned large plantations, upper class, and many slaves
Elite Class
100
person who buys or sells goods
What is a merchant?
100
What did the Southern's believe about slaves?
they were property owned by a master
100
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the president of the Union?
100
What is the name of the submarine that sank a Union ship?
H.L. Hunley
200
What is the class that lived in cities and towns, had a few slaves, and were merchants, shopkeepers, ect.
Middle Class
200
When ships and goods can't be brought in or sent out
What is a blockade?
200
How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
More slaves were needed
200
Jefferson Davis
What is the name of the president of the Confederate States of America?
200
What is the name of the former slave that delivered important information to the North when he escaped?
Robert Smalls
300
How were the lives of the lower class children similar to slaves?
They did not go to school and worked in the fields
300
Person that wants to end slavery
What is an abolitionists?
300
What is the purpose of the underground railroad?
to help slaves get to freedom
300
Eli Whitney
What is the name of the man who invented the cotton gin?
300
What was the goal of reconstruction?
to rebuild the South to rebuild cotton plantations and railroads
400
What is the social class that worked as farmers or in Charleston as skilled workers to earn money to buy freedom for their families?
Free African Americans
400
to leave/ break away
What is secede/secession?
400
What is the reason SC seceded from the Union?wanted to
keep slavery wanted states' rights
400
for speaking out against slavery
What is the reason the Grimke sisters were forced to leave SC?
400
What is the affect of education as a result of Reconstruction?
all kids could go to school- public education
500
What is the class that did most of the farming in the state?
Independent farmers
500
the southern states
What is the confederacy?
500
What is the event that started the Civil War?
firing on Fort Sumter
500
Harriet Tubman
What is the name of the conductor of the Underground Railroad?
500
What is one way the elite stayed the same and one way they were different?
they kept their social status/influence but no longer had money or slaves.
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