Native Americans & Early Exploration
Religion and nature were vital aspects of culture for these people prior to European contact.
Who are Native Americans?
Founded in 1670, this was the first permanent settlement in the Carolina Colony.
What is Charlestown?
This Caribbean Island served as the primary model for English plantation colonies like South Carolina.
What is Barbados?
Home to Quakers, Lutherans, and Presbyterians from across Europe, this Middle Colony was famous for its religious and ethnic diversity.
What is Pennsylvania?
On a map of early colonial North America, early British settlements like Plymouth and Jamestown were located along this coastline.
What is the Atlantic Coast?
Eastern Woodland tribes cultivated these three main crops, collectively known as the "Three Sisters."
What are corn, pole beans, and squash?
King Charles II gave the land called Carolina to eight of his supporters, who were known by this title.
Who are the Lords Proprietors?
A warm climate, fertile soil, and a long growing season led the Southern Colonies to base their economy on this activity.
What is plantation farming?
Nicknamed "Carolina Gold," this was the most important cash crop to South Carolina's economy in the 1700s.
What is rice?
This was the name of the forced sea voyage taken by slave ships from West Africa to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This was the main reason for the drastic decline of the Native American population after the arrival of Europeans.
What is disease?
The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact to establish this form of government in the Plymouth Colony.
What is a majority-rules form of government?
This economic system relied on colonies supplying raw materials to the mother country in exchange for manufactored goods.
What is Mercantilism?
Eliza Lucas Pinckney developed an efficient way to grow this important blue dye cash crop in South Carolina.
What is indigo?
The population of South Carolina increased significantly after English settlement primarily due to the rise of this group.
Who are enslaved Africans?
The Cherokee tribe primarily inhabited this region of South Carolina.
What is the Blue Ridge region?
Created in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia, this was the first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Unlike the plantation economy of the South, the Northern colonies' economy depended heavily on fishing, lumber, and this industry.
What is shipbuilding?
People living in the Low Country of South Carolina were mostly described as having this background.
Who are wealthy plantation owners, government officials, and well-educated elites.
Passed as a result of the Stono Rebellion, these laws restricted the rights of slaves to prevent future rebellions.
What are Slave Codes?
This was the name of the very first attempted Spanish settlement in what is now South Carolina.
What is San Miguel de Gualdape?
Written by Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper and John Locke, this was the first constitution for the Carolina Colony.
What is the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina?
Settlers were attracted to the Carolina Colony because it offered these two major incentives.
What is religious freedom and free land?
These men in the Back Country took the law into their own hands before formal courts were established.
Who are the Regulators?
This language, spoken by many African slaves in the Lowcountry, is a combination of English and African dialects.
What is Gullah?