Early SC & Colonial Government
This 1620 agreement signed by Pilgrims in New England was the first document establishing self-government created by European settlers.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Native Americans used rivers, trees, and animals to survive, viewing nature not as something to be bought or sold, but as these essential materials found in the environment.
What are natural resources?
Because the Middle Colonies produced high amounts of wheat and grain, they earned this famous nickname.
What are the "Breadbasket" colonies?
This plantation work arrangement gave enslaved laborers specific daily assignments and allowed them free time once completed.
What is the Task System?
A government system where wealthy plantation owners hold all the political power is known by this term.
What is a plantocracy?
Drafted by John Locke and Lord Ashley, this document guaranteed religious freedom to believers while protecting slavery and giving political authority to wealthy landowners.
What is the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina?
Located in the Piedmont region, this is the only federally recognized Native American tribe in South Carolina today.
What is the Catawba Nation?
This economic theory stated that colonies existed strictly to benefit the Mother Country by supplying raw materials and buying finished goods.
What is Mercantilism?
Enslaved West Africans brought specialized agricultural expertise that allowed South Carolina to successfully cultivate this primary cash crop, nicknamed "Carolina Gold".
What is rice?
After South Carolina became a Royal Colony, Great Britain offered financial bonuses known as these to encourage colonists to grow rice and indigo.
What are subsidies?
This land incentive policy granted 50 acres per person to anyone who brought family, indentured servants, or enslaved workers to the Carolina colony.
What is the Headright System?
While Europeans viewed land as individual property to be owned, Native Americans viewed land and natural resources under this concept
What is communal (or shared)?
Derived from pine trees, pitch and tar were essential exports known as these, used specifically to seal and repair wooden ships.
What are naval stores?
Formed along the isolated Sea Islands, this distinct culture and language developed from a blend of various West African traditions and English.
What is Gullah (or Gullah Geechee)?
Under Royal government, South Carolina gained a two-house legislature consisting of the Commons House of Assembly and this upper body appointed by London.
What is the Royal Council?
Colonial leaders replaced this law-making group with the Commons House of Assembly because colonists wanted more power to approve or reject laws.
What was the Grand Council?
Native Americans became dependent on European manufactured goods after trading deer pelts for items like this weapon, which increased warfare between tribes.
What are guns (or firearms)?
At just 16 years old, she introduced indigo, a plant used to produce valuable blue dye, to South Carolina's economy.
Who was Eliza Pinckney?
In response to the 1739 Stono Rebellion, South Carolina passed these strict regulations banning enslaved people from gathering, learning to read, or traveling freely.
What are the Slave Codes of 1740?
Outraged by high crime rates, lack of courts, and no local representation, Backcountry vigilantes formed this group to take law enforcement into their own hands.
Who were the Regulators?
Political disputes, contrasting geography, and differences between small-scale farming and large plantations ultimately caused Carolina to undergo this major political change.
What is dividing into North and South Carolina?
Unfair treatment by traders and loss of land triggered this violent 1715 conflict between coastal Native Americans and South Carolina colonists.
What is the Yamasee War?
To ensure Britain controlled colonial trade, Parliament passed these strict laws requiring raw materials to be shipped exclusively to England on English ships.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Settlers from this Caribbean island brought the plantation system, enslaved labor, and a plantocracy government structure directly to South Carolina.
What is Barbados?
Passed by the colonial government to solve the Regulator Movement, this legal measure established courts, sheriffs, and jails in the Backcountry.
What is the Circuit Court Act?