Social Classes
Events before Civil War
Civil War
Civil War
Civil War
100
Which class owned few slaves, but worked side by side wit them?
What is the independent farmers?
100
This is now the leading cash crop in South Carolina
What is cotton?
100
Someone who fights against slavery is called this.
What is an abolitionist?
100
In 1860, this person was elected as President of the United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The Confederate States of America elected this person as president.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
This class had to carry papers with them when they went out in public?
What is Free African Americans?
200
In 1793, this was invented to make the process of picking the seeds out of cotton easier.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This was illegal for slaves to do.
What is read and write?
200
South Carolina was this number to secede from the Union
What is first?
200
SouthCarolina depended on the export of cotton in exchange for imports of much needed war supplies from Europe. This is what the Union did to prevent this?
What is put a blockade along the port of Charleston?
300
This class a lot of political power and their children went to private schools or had a tutor
What is the elite class?
300
This is the inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
These two sisters fought for slaves and helped them escaped.
Who are the Grimke sisters?
300
True or False. Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist.
What is false?
300
This is the name of the submarine the Confederates built to get by the blockade.
What is the Hunley?
400
Trademen, merchants and shopkeepers were in this class.
What is the middle class?
400
The cotton gin led to this.
What is the expansion of slavery?
400
True or False. Most northerners were abolitionists.
What is false?
400
The idea that the state had the right to decide whether or not to obey national laws is called this.
What is states' rights?
400
Sherman’s “March to the Sea” from Atlanta to Savannah,Georgia and continued the march through South Carolina from Savannah to Columbia left behind a trail of destruction including these two things.
What are farms and plantations?
500
The elite class owned ____ or more slaves
What is 20?
500
Cotton made South Carolina a wealthy southern state because of this.
What is cotton can be grown all around SC?
500
Slaves traveled all the way to this place when wanting to escape.
What is Canada?
500
Confederate troops fired here which started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
This is the number of years the Civil War lasted and who won?
What is 4 years and the Union won?
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