Unit 1 Early SC
How did Native Americans view land ownership?
Land was not owned by individuals but was shared by everyone in the tribe
In 1670 the English founded the first permanent settlement in SC – what was the name of this settlement?
Charles Town
What was the outcome of the Battle of Cowpens?
The Americans won the battle
Which First Amendment right protects a citizen’s freedom to participate in a political rally to support a presidential candidate?
Freedom of Assembly
Which action prohibited slavery in the northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase?
Missouri Compromise
Name the Native America tribes that lived in South Carolina?
Cherokee, Catawba, Yemassee
What did Eliza Lucas Pinckney do that helped South Carolina’s economy?
She made indigo a cash crop
Why was the French and Indian war fought?
Land
Which plan for representation did South Carolina support during the Constitutional Convention?
The Virginia Plan
Why was the Kansas-Nebraska Act significant to South Carolinians?
It dealt with the free versus slave state balance
What kind of homes did the Catawba, Cherokee, and Yemassee have?
Wood and bark houses
What were the two major cash crops of colonial South Carolina?
Rice and indigo
Which of the following statements best describes the people of South Carolina during the American Revolution?
The majority of people in the Upcountry were loyal to England
What issue was settled by the Connecticut Plan?
How the larger and smaller states could share power
How did slavery contribute to sectionalism in the United States?
It split people and political parties
The original settlements in the thirteen British colonies were all located
East of the Appalachian Mountains
What was a result of the Regulator movement?
Justice, law, and order were provide for the Upcountry
What came firs the British passage of the stamp act in 1765 or the colonial protest of British law by throwing tea into Boston Harbor?
The passage of the stamp act in 1765.
South Carolina’s capital was moved from Charleston to Columbia in 1786. What effect did this have?
The capital was equally distant from most parts of the state
What did white South Carolinians fear about abolition?
They thought it would make them lose their wealth and power
Villages with town meetings
Small farms and commercial fishing
First American College
These are all key parts of this colonial region.
What is the New England colonies?
What ocean did the Colonial Trade routes/ Middle Passage cross?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
In what year did America when the American Revolution?
What is 1781?
What issue did the Connecticut plan solve?
How the larger and smaller states could share power
How did slavery impact South Carolina planters?
It made them very wealthy