Antebellum in South Carolina

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Antebellum in South Carolina

• 3rd Grade Social Studies
• 3-4.1 Compare the conditions of daily life for
  various classes of people in South Carolina,
  including the elite, the middle class, the lower
  class, the independent farmers, and the free and
  the enslaved African Americans.
• Created by Jill McCormick

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What does Antebellum mean?

• Antebellum means before the war, in this case
  before the Civil War.
• During this time in South Carolina, the state was
  very wealthy.
• What does this mean?....
• Money, Money, Money

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Plantation Owners

• The plantation owners were very wealthy (rich)
  during this time.
• Their crops, such as cotton, rice, and indigo
  were doing very well.
• They were able to sell
• their crops to many
• different places.

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What made the plantations so successful?

• Slaves!
• The plantation owners had many, many slaves, in
  the hundreds and thousands of slaves to help work
  the fields and harvest the crops.

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What did the plantation owners do while the
slaves were working hard?

• They would have visitors and would enjoy relaxing
  and spending time with family and friends.
• They would have grand parties and take trips.

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Lets look at some pictures of plantations.
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Heres some more pictures of plantations.
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What did it look like inside a plantation home?
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What did the women and girls wear during the
1800s?
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What did men and boys wear during the 1800s?
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What was it like to go to school in the 1800s?

• If you were lucky enough to live on a plantation
  and have wealthy parents, you were lucky to go to
  school.
• Your classroom would be a house with one room.
  Most of the time the school took place in the
  church.
• You would have classmates of all ages and grades
  in your same class.
• There was only 1 teacher for everyone.

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A One-Room Schoolhouse
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Fun in Charleston

• If you lived in Charleston or lived near
  Charleston and your parents were wealthy you
  would get to travel there for fun.
• Adults would go to Charleston to have parties
  with dancing and all kinds of food.

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Fun in Charleston
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King Cotton

• In the 1800s, cotton was the fastest growing
  crop. It became known as the king of all crops.
• It was able to grow just about anywhere and it
  was a very durable plant.

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Cotton Plantations
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Cotton Plantations
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A Cotton Plants Life Cycle
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

• Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts
  in 1765.
• He invented the cotton gin in 1794.
• The cotton gin was a machine used to separate the
  cotton from the seeds.
• He was the pioneer inventor for improving how we
  farmed cotton.
• He died in 1825.

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How do we process cotton today?

• We use a cotton picker. This is a special machine
  that goes along each row and picks the cotton.

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Step 2 Put the cotton into a pile.

• Once the cotton has been picked, it is then place
  into another machine. This machine will create a
  cotton module.

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Step 3 Cotton Modules

• Cotton modules allow the cotton to stay together
  and it makes it easier to haul to the cotton gin
  or textile mill.

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Step 4 Cotton Gin

• Once the cotton is at the cotton gin, it gets
  ready to be shipped to a textile mill.

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Step 5 Textile Mill

• Once at the textile mill, the cotton is put into
  a machine that will spin it into yarn. This is
  used to create many different products.

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Step 6 Products are sent to the stores and you
buy them.