1. SOCIAL STUDIES Week Four Third Grade

2. During the antebellum period of SC history, which social class of people were the wealthy, planter aristocracy who owned lots of land?

3. The elite class

4. During the antebellum period of SC history, which social class of people were unskilled, uneducated, and often did not own any land?

5. The lower class

6. During the antebellum period of SC history, which social class of people owned small farms on which the whole family worked, sometimes right alongside their few slaves?

7. The independent farmer class

8. During the antebellum period of SC history, which social class of people usually had a skill or talent (such as carpentry) in which they worked and were able to keep a portion of their earnings?

9. The free African American class

10. During the antebellum period of SC history, which social class of people were unpaid, bought and sold, and the property of their white masters?

11. The enslaved African American class

12. What are three key factors that supported the growing of cotton in South Carolina?

13. 1. Climate 2. Soil 3. Topography (level land that was easy to clear and plow)

14. What effect did the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, have on the cotton crop?

15. It made cotton a much more profitable cash crop.

16. What effect did the cotton gin have on slavery?

17. It led to the expansion of slavery.

18. Why did the use of the cotton gin create the need for the expansion of slavery?

19. More slaves were needed to plant, hoe, and pick cotton due to the increase in cotton production.

20. Why did the cotton farmers move west?

21. They wanted more land to plant the cotton.

22. Describe the southern way of life in South Carolina prior to the Civil War:

23. South Carolinians became rich from cotton and the use of slaves that worked their many farms.

24. What was the purpose of the abolitionist movement?

25. The purpose was to outlaw slavery throughout the U.S.

26. Why didn’t South Carolinians like the abolitionist movement?

27. South Carolinians thought the abolitionist movement was a threat to their way of life because they were scared the slaves would revolt, be freed, and/or wouldn’t work in their fields.

28. What was the idea that states had the right to decide whether or not to obey national laws?

29. State’s rights

30. Why did South Carolina decide to secede (no longer be a part) from the United States?

31. They wanted to hold on to their way of life, which was based on slavery.

32. What happened at the Secession Convention held in Columbia and Charleston?

33. South Carolina seceded, or was no longer a part of the United States.

34. When other states like South Carolina seceded, they formed a new country. What was it called?

35. The Confederacy States of America (The Confederacy)

36. When the Confederate government ordered the Union soldiers to leave Fort Sumter and they didn’t, what happened?

37. Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter to get them to surrender the fort and the Civil War was begun.

38. Who was the president of the United States when the Civil War began?

39. Abraham Lincoln

40. Who made a “March to the Sea,” leaving a path of burned and looted farms and plantations across the South in an attempt to end the Civil War?

41. Union General William Sherman