Antebellum Period

What does Antebellum mean?

• Before the war
• After the war
• Between the wars
• The first war

The Elite class was made up of mostly…

• Farmers
• Plantation owners
• Merchants
• Traders

Were the children of the Elite class educated?

• Yes
• No

What is a job that someone from the middle class may have had?

• Doctor
• Plantation owner
• Slave
• Artist

 Were the children of the middle class educated?

• No
• Yes

The lower class were uneducated and did not own any land.

• True
• False

Freed African Americans

• Lived easy lives
• Lived in fear or being put back into slavery
• Lived crazy lives
• Were powerful

Enslaved African Americans lived 

• Really hard lives
• Easy lives

Slaves were brought from which two places?

• Barbados and West Africa 
• Bahamas and South Africa
• Bolivia and North Africa
• Belgium and East Africa

What were the conditions like on the slave ships?

• Cruel and unhealthy
• Nice and beauitful
• Calm and relaxing
• Small and quiet