Transcript Civil War and Reconstruction Review Game

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Question 1:
What type of communities made up
most of South Carolina during the
antebellum time period?
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Answer:
Rural Farms
Question 2:
What group of people made up the
largest part of South Carolina’s
population before the Civil War?
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Answer:
Slaves
Question 2:
What group of people made up the
largest part of South Carolina’s
population before the Civil War?
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Answer:
Slaves
Question 3:
How did the invention of the cotton
gin affect slavery in South Carolina?
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Answer:
More slaves were needed on the
plantations because they began
growing more cotton.
Question 3:
How did the invention of the cotton
gin affect slavery in South Carolina?
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Answer:
More slaves were needed on the
plantations because they began
growing more cotton.
Question 3:
How did the invention of the cotton
gin affect slavery in South Carolina?
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Answer:
More slaves were needed on the
plantations because they began
growing more cotton.
Question 4:
Why were leaders of South Carolina
against the election of Abraham
Lincoln?
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Answer:
They feared that he would end slavery
throughout the United States.
Question 4:
Why were leaders of South Carolina
against the election of Abraham
Lincoln?
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Answer: They feared that he would end
slavery throughout the United States.
Question 4:
Why were leaders of the South
Carolina against the election of
Abraham Lincoln
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Answer:
They feared that he would end slavery
throughout the United States.
Question 5:
Who invented the cotton gin?
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Answer:
Eli Whitney
Question 5:
Who invented the cotton gin?
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Answer:
Eli Whitney
Question 5:
Who invented the cotton gin?
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Answer:
Eli Whitney
Question 6:
What was the most important cash
crop before the Civil War in South
Carolina?
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Answer:
Cotton
Question 6:
What was the most important cash
crop before the Civil War in South
Carolina?
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Answer:
Cotton
Question 6:
What was the most important cash
crop before the Civil War in South
Carolina?
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Answer:
Cotton
Question 7:
What do you call a skilled worker
such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter
or blacksmith?
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Answer:
Artisan
Question 7:
What do you call a skilled worker
such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter,
or blacksmith?
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Answer:
Artisan
Question 7:
What do you call a skilled worker
such as a tailor, butcher, carpenter,
or blacksmith?
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Answer:
Artisan
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Question 8:
Planters and traders made up the
_____ social class in South
Carolina during the antebellum time
period.
Answer:
Elite social class
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Question:
Why did people in the
Up Country want the
state capital to move?
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Question:Question:
Why did people in the
They thought it should
Up Country want the
be closer to the center
state capital to move?
of the state
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Question 8:
Planters and traders made up the
______ social class in South
Carolina during the antebellum time
period.
X
Answer:
elite social class
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Question 8:
Planters and traders made up the
______ social class in South
Carolina during the antebellum time
period.
XX
Answer:
elite social class
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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
Question 10:
How did the use of blockades affect
the South?
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Answer:
It prevented the South from receiving
supplies they needed to fight the war.
Question 11:
Where were the first shots of the
war fired?
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Answer:
Fort Sumter
Question 12:
Who was the leader of the Southern
states after secession?
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Answer:
Jefferson Davis
Question 13:
What did the Southern states call
themselves after they seceded?
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Answer:
The Confederate States of America
Question 14:
South Carolina was the ____ state
to secede from the Union.
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Answer:
First
Question 15:
What was decided at the Secession
Convention in South Carolina?
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Answer:
South Carolina would secede from the
United States.
Question 16:
Why were many South Carolinians
concerned about the abolitionist
movement?
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Answer:
Abolitionists had helped many enslaved
people to escape to freedom.
Question 17:
What important event happened at
Appomattox Court House on April 9,
1865?
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Answer:
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War.
Question 18:
What was the purpose of the
Emancipation Proclamation?
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Answer:
It freed all slaves living in the
confederate States of America
Question 19:
What were Black Codes?
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Answer:
Special laws that took rights away from
freed slaves.
Question 20:
What was the main purpose of
Reconstruction?
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To bring the Southern states back in to
the Union.
Question 21:
What was the biggest change for
slaves after the Civil War?
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Answer:
Slaves had their freedom and could
work for themselves.
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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
Question 23:
What am I called? :
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A person who farmed land for the
person who owned it and received a
share of the crop
Answer:
A sharecropper
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Question 24:
What were people from the North
called who moved to Southern
states to take advantage of the
people during reconstruction?
Answer:
Carpetbaggers
Question 25: True or False
After the Civil War, both black and
white children were supposed to get
a free public education.
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Answer:
True
Question 26: True or False
South Carolina created separate
schools for the black and white
students.
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Answer:
True
Question 27: True or False
An abolitionist was someone who
fought to keep slavery in the South
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Answer:
False
Question 28: True or False
Robert E. Lee was the general of
the Confederate Army.
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Answer:
True
Question 29: True or False
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John C. Calhoun was a South
Carolina leader who believed in
states’ rights.
Answer:
True
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