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Vocabulary
School
Midlands
Plantation Life
This and That
100
What are historians?
Historians are people who study history.
100
Explain a one-room schoolhouse.
A one-room schoolhouse is where students of all ages learn together in the same room.
100
These two regions make up the Midlands of SC:
Sandhills and Inner Coastal Plain
100
Where is the kitchen located in a plantation home?
The kitchen was a small separate building next to the home.
100
How was the cotton plant harmful?
Cotton took important nutrients from the soil that plants needed to grow.
200
What is penmanship?
Penmanship is handwriting.
200
Who could go to school during Antebellum times?
Only wealthy white children were allowed to attend.
200
Where are temperatures typically higher, Columbia or Charleston?
Columbia
200
When visitors came to the plantation, how long would they stay and WHY?
Visitors often stayed for weeks at a time because it took so long for them to travel.
200
To protect yourself from mosquitoes, you should...
wear light-colored clothing and long pants. Also, you should avoid good smelling lotions and perfumes.
300
Define drought.
Drought is a period of time with little or no rain.
300
What are 3 ways school was different during Antebellum times from school today?
Antebellum times- slate tablets, quills, no cafeteria, one-room schoolhouses, very strict teachers Today- computers,pencils, cafeteria, grade levels, WONDERFUL teachers
300
What is a big business of the Midlands?
Farming
300
Why did plantation owners go on summer vacations?
They did not want their family to get sick from diseases and sicknesses on the plantation during the hot, sticky summer.
300
During Antebellum times, people of SC often caught diseases such as __________ and ____________ from mosquitoes.
yellow fever and malaria
400
When you feel sorry for someone and want to help them, you feel __________ for him.
compassion
400
Why do you think it was illegal (against the law) for slaved to know how to read?
Slaves who knew how to read may try to escape.
400
This is a place you may go to purchase fruits or vegetables from local farmers. It is...
State Farmers Market
400
How did the wealthy men of Charleston spend their time?
They would go to parties and dances. Also, they enjoyed hunting and fishing.
400
What choices did farmers have to make regarding their cotton crops?
They could fertilize the soil which required time and slave labor or they could plant the cotton in another field and leave the old field behind. This would cost more land.
500
What does it mean to fertilize the soil?
Fertilize means to put nutrients back into the soil.
500
Why did the children choose to behave during school in Antebellum times?
Students who did not behave would be sent home to work and do chores for their parents all day.
500
How can drought affect the people of the Midlands?
Farmers- fewer crops to sell Consumers- higher prices because their is less supply and higher demand
500
How did the wealthy women of Charleston spend their time?
They would attend parties and dances. They also spent a lot of time helping the poor and needy (doing charity work).
500
Explain why Sarah Grimke is such an important part of SC history.
Sarah Grimke believed slavery was wrong, even though she was a wealthy girl. She disagreed with slavery and even moved North to live. She wrote articles and gave speeches against slavery.