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This one-word motive describes Europeans' desire for wealth and valuable resources like silver and precious metals in the New World.
What is Gold?
Rocky soil and a short growing season pushed colonists in this region toward small farms and fishing rather than cash crops.
What is New England?
This inland SC region was made up mostly of small subsistence farms rather than plantations.
What is the Upcountry (backcountry)?
This economic system was designed so that colonies would enrich their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This 1739 uprising near a river of the same name was staged by enslaved Africans seeking freedom.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This country created the Colony of Santa Elaina only to abandon it years later
Spain
Known as the 'breadbasket' colonies, this region's fertile soil was ideal for growing wheat and grain to sell.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This coastal SC region built its economy and society around large cash-crop plantations.
What is the Lowcountry?
This SC planter successfully developed indigo into one of the colony's most profitable export crops.
Who is Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
This backcountry group organized to demand courts and fair treatment from South Carolina's colonial government.
Who are the Regulators?
This motive was about earning fame, national power, and prestige for a monarch or country through conquest and discovery.
What is Glory?
A warm climate and long growing season made this region ideal for large cash-crop plantations.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This traveling minister wrote detailed accounts of hardship and disorder in the SC backcountry.
Who is Charles Woodmason?
Under mercantilism, colonies were expected to ship these unfinished goods to the mother country.
What are raw materials?
In direct response to the Stono Rebellion, SC lawmakers passed this harsher legal code restricting enslaved people.
What is the Slave Codes of 1740?
This agricultural system was shared by both the upcountry and the New England Colonies.
What is subsistence farming?
This term describes a farm that grows just enough to feed one family, with little left to sell.
What is a subsistence farm?
This coastal city functioned as colonial South Carolina's center of trade, wealth, and political power.
What is Charleston?
In the mercantile relationship between South Carolina and Great Britain, Britain played this role.
What is the mother country?
Unlike a revolution, the Regulator movement wanted this outcome rather than independence from Britain.
What is fair treatment/representation within the existing government?
Courts/Sheriff
This one of the three major motives for European exploration also explains why groups such as the Puritans crossed the Atlantic to settle regions like New England.
What is God? (Religion)
This labor system, which plantations in the Southern colonies relied on heavily, was far less common in New England's small-farm economy.
What is (enslaved) plantation labor / slavery?
Despite growing population in the backcountry, real political power in the colonial assembly stayed concentrated here.
What is the Lowcountry (Charleston elite)?
This was the ultimate goal a mother country was chasing by practicing mercantilism with its colonies.
What is national wealth and power (a favorable balance of trade)?
This is one lasting impact both the Stono Rebellion and the Regulator movement had on how South Carolina was governed.
What is stricter laws/greater government control in response to unrest?