Chapter 8: Antebellum South Carolina

Question 1

Which kind of cotton has a short growing season, could be grown anywhere in the south, and made it harder to get seeds out of the fibers?

Answer 1

Short Staple Cotton

Question 2

Who invented the Cotton Gin in 1793?

Answer 2

Eli Whitney

Question 3

What effect did the creation of the Cotton Gin have on the number of slaves needed?

Answer 3

To increase.

Question 4

Why was cotton such a profitable crop?

Answer 4

It was easy to grow, inexspensive to market, did not perish, and it was lighter than other crops which made it easier to transport it.

Question 5

The importance of cotton in South Carolina’s economy led to what?

Answer 5

The legislature settling the issue of representation.

Question 6

Why was the Low Country willing to reapportion seats in the General Assembly?

Answer 6

They recognized the economic value of the Up Country from the rapid growth of cotton.

Question 7

What group was made up of cooks and butlers and were on call 24 hours a day?

Answer 7

House Servants

Question 8

What group of people worked as blacksmiths, carpenters, etc. And also lived in the shop they worked at?

Answer 8

Yard Servants.

Question 9

What group of people worked in the fields and lived in slave cabins on “the street”?

Answer 9

Field Hands

Question 10

What is an overseer?

Answer 10

The person who was responsible for seeing that skates performed the tasks assigned to them.

Question 11

Very young and very old people working as Field Hands were called what?

Answer 11

Quarter Hands.

Question 12

Boys, girls, mothers, and young children working as field hands were called what?

Answer 12

Half Hands

Question 13

Any Field Hand that worked a full day was called what?

Answer 13

Full Hands.

Question 14

Which system allowed their workers to work in the gardens or hunt or fish when they were done with their tasks?

Answer 14

Task System(Rice Plantation)

Question 15

Which system made their workers work from sun up to sun down?

Answer 15

Gang System(Cotton Plantation)

Question 16

How often did slaves receive clothes?

Answer 16

Twice a year.

Question 17

How often did slaves receive shoes?

Answer 17

Once a year.

Question 18

How did citizens express religious beliefs?

Answer 18

Through spirituals.

Question 19

What determined a child’s status at birth?

Answer 19

The mothers legal status.

Question 20

Which free black opened more than 50 slaves?

Answer 20

William Ellison.

Question 21

What increased due to the increase of slaves?

Answer 21

Fear of revolts.

Question 22

What was the most violent slave revolt?

Answer 22

Mat Turner’s Rebellion.

Question 23

Which person attempted to start a slave revolt?

Answer 23

Denmark Vesey.

Question 24

Why didn’t the revolt happen?

Answer 24

There was a leak of information amongst the conspirators.

Question 25

What was created due to the rebellions and uprising of slave revolts?

Answer 25

Slave codes.

Question 26

Which sisters who were raised in a slave holding family, wrote and lectured against slavery?

Answer 26

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

Question 27

Slave revolts prompted most souther whites to do what?

Answer 27

Keep silent about anti-abolitionist ( anti-slavery) views.

Question 28

Which kind of cotton mainly grew in SC, needed a long growing season, and could only be planted in the coastal region?

Answer 28

Sea Island Cotton

Question 29

What is Antebellum?

Answer 29

A period that comes before a major war.

Question 30

What does it mean to institutionalize?

Answer 30

To make a practice formal and structured.

Question 31

What Is Paternalism?

Answer 31

A father like attitude towards others based on belief that they are incapable of caring for themselves.

Question 32

What does reapportion mean?

Answer 32

To reassign or redistribute resources or political power in a different way.

Question 33

What does resistance mean?

Answer 33

An effort, either direct or indirect, of opposing authority and rules.