People and Power
These eight men were granted the charter for the Carolina colony by King Charles II.
What are the Lord's Proprietors?
An economic system where a mother country, like England, controlled the trade of its colonies to accumulate wealth and resources.
What is mercantilism?
A colonial term for a geographical division used for local government and religious administration.
What is a parish?
This describes a person who takes the law into their own hands, often without legal authority, to punish an alleged offender.
What is a vigilante?
This term describes a legislative body composed of two chambers or houses
What is bicameral?
A term for the wealthy and powerful class who controlled most of South Carolina's land and government.
What is the elite?
This occurs when a colony produces too much of a single crop, driving down the market price and reducing profits.
What is overproduction?
South Carolina's population included people from many different backgrounds, including European settlers, enslaved Africans, and various Native American groups.
What is diverse?
In some historical contexts, this was a person who was not a slave and enjoyed certain rights and privileges.
What is a freeman?
This is a proposed law presented to a legislative body for consideration.
What is a bill?
This was the title for an individual who owned and governed the Carolina colony before it became a royal colony.
What is a proprietor?
A key cash crop in South Carolina that became profitable thanks to knowledge brought by African enslaved people.
What is rice?
The name of the group of people who primarily controlled South Carolina in the early colonial days, eventually failing due to mismanagement.
What are the Lords Proprietors?
This describes a person who is not present at a specific place, such as a voter who casts a ballot by mail.
What is an absentee?
This refers to a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.
What is a faction?
This term refers to a group of civilians trained as soldiers to protect the colony, especially from Native American or Spanish threats.
What is a militia?
This term describes a tax or duty imposed on goods, which was a point of contention with Native American tribes regarding trade.
What is a tariff?
This term describes a person or thing that is not uniform in its components, similar to the varied groups that made up the colonial population.
What is diverse?
The proprietor obtained a royal charter from the King, granting them significant power over a specific territory.
What is a Royal Charter?
In colonial America, this was a grant of land given to a settler, often used to encourage immigration.
What is a headright?
A person who was banished or forced to leave their homeland, a fate many faced for political or religious reasons.
What is an exile?
Following the end of the proprietary government, this colony's economy flourished, leading to it becoming one of the wealthiest in British North America.
What is South Carolina?
What the colonial economy of South Carolina was based on, particularly through the use of slave labor.
What are cash crops?
An individual, or a group of individuals like the Lords Proprietors, who was granted a large territory in the New World by the British crown and was given authority to govern, control, and develop the land as a commercial enterprise.
What is a colonial proprietor?
This is an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
What is an embargo?