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STRIKES Question 1: What type of communities made up most of South Carolina during the antebellum time period? Answer: Rural Farms

STRIKES Question 2: What group of people made up the largest part of South Carolina’s population before the Civil War? Answer: Slaves

STRIKES X Question 2: What group of people made up the largest part of South Carolina’s population before the Civil War? Answer: Slaves

STRIKES Question 3: How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in South Carolina? Answer: More slaves were needed on the plantations because they began growing more cotton.

STRIKES X Question 3: How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in South Carolina? Answer: More slaves were needed on the plantations because they began growing more cotton.

STRIKES XX Question 3: How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in South Carolina? Answer: More slaves were needed on the plantations because they began growing more cotton.

STRIKES Question 4: Why were leaders of South Carolina against the election of Abraham Lincoln? Answer: They feared that he would end slavery throughout the United States.

STRIKES X Question 4: Why were leaders of South Carolina against the election of Abraham Lincoln? Answer: They feared that he would end slavery throughout the United States.

STRIKES XX Question 4: Why were leaders of the South Carolina against the election of Abraham Lincoln Answer: They feared that he would end slavery throughout the United States.

STRIKES Question 5: Who invented the cotton gin? Answer: Eli Whitney

STRIKES X Question 5: Who invented the cotton gin? Answer: Eli Whitney

STRIKES XX Question 5: Who invented the cotton gin? Answer: Eli Whitney

STRIKES Question 6: What was the most important cash crop before the Civil War in South Carolina? Answer: Cotton

STRIKES X Question 6: What was the most important cash crop before the Civil War in South Carolina? Answer: Cotton

STRIKES XX Question 6: What was the most important cash crop before the Civil War in South Carolina? Answer: Cotton

STRIKES Question 7: What do you call a skilled worker such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter or blacksmith? Answer: Artisan

STRIKES X Question 7: What do you call a skilled worker such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter, or blacksmith? Answer: Artisan

STRIKES XX Question 7: What do you call a skilled worker such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter, or blacksmith? Answer: Artisan

STRIKES Question 8: Planters and traders made up the _____ social class in South Carolina during the antebellum time period. Answer: Elite social class

answers Question: Why did people in the Up Country want the state capital to move?

answers Question: Answers They thought it should be closer to the center of the state Question: Why did people in the Up Country want the state capital to move?

STRIKES X Question 8: Planters and traders made up the ______ social class in South Carolina during the antebellum time period. Answer: elite social class

STRIKES XX Question 8: Planters and traders made up the ______ social class in South Carolina during the antebellum time period. Answer: elite social class

STRIKES Question 9: Who was the union general that marched his army through the south, leaving behind burned buildings and ruined land? His troops were also responsible for the destruction in Columbia to our state house. Answer: General William Tecumseh Sherman

STRIKES Question 10: How did the use of blockades affect the South? Answer: It prevented the South from receiving supplies they needed to fight the war.

STRIKES Question 11: Where were the first shots of the war fired? Answer: Fort Sumter

STRIKES Question 12: Who was the leader of the Southern states after secession? Answer: Jefferson Davis

STRIKES Question 13: What did the Southern states call themselves after they seceded? Answer: The Confederate States of America

STRIKES Question 14: South Carolina was the ____ state to secede from the Union. Answer: First

STRIKES Question 15: What was decided at the Secession Convention in South Carolina? Answer: South Carolina would secede from the United States.

STRIKES Question 16: Why were many South Carolinians concerned about the abolitionist movement? Answer: Abolitionists had helped many enslaved people to escape to freedom.

STRIKES Question 17: What important event happened at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865? Answer: General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.

STRIKES Question 18: What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? Answer: It freed all slaves living in the confederate States of America

STRIKES Question 19: What were Black Codes? Answer: Special laws that took rights away from freed slaves.

STRIKES Question 20: What was the main purpose of Reconstruction? Answer: To bring the Southern states back in to the Union.

STRIKES Question 21: What was the biggest change for slaves after the Civil War? Answer: Slaves had their freedom and could work for themselves.

STRIKES Question 22: What was the name of the organization set up to help the newly freed African Americans in the South? Answer: The Freedmen’s Bureau

STRIKES Question 23: What am I called? : A person who farmed land for the person who owned it and received a share of the crop Answer: A sharecropper

STRIKES Question 24: What were people from the North called who moved to Southern states to take advantage of the people during reconstruction? Answer: Carpetbaggers

STRIKES Question 25: True or False After the Civil War, both black and white children were supposed to get a free public education. Answer: True

STRIKES Question 26: True or False South Carolina created separate schools for the black and white students. Answer: True

STRIKES Question 27: True or False An abolitionist was someone who fought to keep slavery in the South Answer: False

STRIKES Question 28: True or False Robert E. Lee was the general of the Confederate Army. Answer: True

STRIKES Question 29: True or False John C. Calhoun was a South Carolina leader who believed in states’ rights. Answer: True

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