20 Questions
What were the primary products of Southern manufacturing?
Fabric mills and sawmills for southern needs
Which crops were almost exclusively exported from the South?
Cotton and rice
What drove the industrial manufacturing of exported goods in the North?
Rivers
What made the profitability of Southern manufacturing directly linked?
Cheap slave labor
Which crops were grown using indentured servants or slave labor for over 200 years?
Cotton, tobacco, and rice
What drove the expansion of the old southwest (slavery)?
Rising cotton prices and the invention of the cotton gin
What did the plantation system come to America with?
English and French sugar plantation owners from Barbados and the Caribbean
What did the wealthiest plantation landowners in the South consist of?
The top social tier
What was the bulk of the population in the Southern class structure?
Poor white sharecroppers or hired workers, and slaves
What dictated the ability to vote and controlled economics for a long time?
The poll tax
What does the Antebellum Era refer to?
The period before the American Civil War
Which states are commonly recognized as part of the deep South?
Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi
What characterized the social and economic systems in the deep South before the Civil War?
Distinct social class disparities
What was the primary focus of the Antebellum Southern economy?
Heavily labor-intensive agricultural cash crop enterprise
What is a modern-day romanticization of the small population of exceptional wealthy slaveholders?
The image of ladies in hoop skirts and gentlemen in fine carriages
What is the George Izzard House known for?
Being an antebellum home in Charleston, South Carolina
What characterized the majority of people during the Antebellum Era?
Poverty and hard lives
What was the primary occupation of the wealthy in the Antebellum South?
Owning slaves and large landholdings
What is the Izzard House Parlor known for?
11-foot ceilings with crown molding and painted walls
What characterized the perspective of life for different groups in the deep South before the Civil War?
Meant very different things
Test your knowledge of life in the deep South before the Civil War with this quiz. Explore the social class disparities, economic systems, and different perspectives of life for slave-owning landowners, non-slave-owning landowners, and slaves. Discover key aspects of the deep South's history in this engaging quiz.
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