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This was a title given to someone who owned a colony.
What was a proprietor?
This was the first settlement established in what is now South Carolina. It was located on a bluff overlooking the Ashley River.
What was Charles Town?
This was the most profitable cash crop raised in the Carolina Colony, earning the nickname Carolina Gold.
What was rice?
Because they lived in the forests we use this term to describe collectively the First Nations of South Carolina.
What is the People of the Eastern Woodland?
The explorers of this European nation came to the New World in search of gold and in an effort to spread Christianity.
What was Spain?
This colony was originally known as New Netherlands, with its first city being known as New Amsterdam.
What was New York?
This is a document that gives a person or group of people the right to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
This is the group that was given permission to establish a colony in Carolina as repayment for debts owed to them by the Crown.
Who were the Lords Proprietors?
Slaves purchased from the Barbados Islands and this region of Africa were essential to the economy of the Carolina Colony.
What was West Africa?
This is the term used by the First Nations to describe corn, pole beans, and squash.
What was The Three Sisters?
The French came to the New World in an attempt to do these two things.
What was to discover a northwest passage and to trade for furs (or trade with Native Americans).
This region was known for grazing sheep and creating textiles from their wool. They lived primarily in small towns with meeting halls that served as the center for their communities. Mandatory eduction in the three R's was a hallmark of their culture.
What was the New England Colonies?
This term refers to a tax paid annually for land. The tax in the Carolina Colony amounted to 1/2 a penny per acre per year.
What is a quitrent?
Many of the early planters arriving in the Carolina Colony came from this British Colony in the West Indies.
What was Barbados?
Rice and indigo made this port city the wealthiest city in the Colonies by the mid 18th century.
What was Charleston?
This tribe was best known for making pottery, and are still known for that today!
Who were the Catawba?
This was the name given by Europeans to the region of Quebec (Canada), the Saint Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River, and the Louisiana Territory.
What was New France?
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Bay Company, this religious group settled in what is now the city of Boston, hoping to make it a shining example of morality, or a "city upon a hill".
Who were the Puritans?
This was a system that allowed people to get land for each person they brought with them to the Carolina Colony.
What is the Headright System?
To encourage colonists to settle in Carolina the Lords Proprietors offered them what incentives?
What was land and religious freedom?
Early settlers to the Carolinas raised these two herds of animals, allowing them to graze with minimal oversight.
What were cattle (or cows) and hogs (or pigs)?
Because they lived adjacent to the ocean, this tribes diet included oysters and clams, unlike the other First Nations of South Carolina.
Who were the Yamassee?
This religious group fled France for the New World, settling at Charlesfort, in an effort to avoid persecution.
Who were the Huguenots?
This religious group settled the colony of Pennsylvania, which was named for the father of one of their most famous and wealthy members, William Penn.
Who were the Quakers?
These were products such as tar, pitch, or turpentine that were made from the sap of pine trees.
What were naval stores?
He was hired to write the Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.
Who was John Locke?
This woman brought indigo to the Carolina Colony, substantially increasing the wealth of the region.
Who was Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
The Cherokee played this game using a wooden stick and a ball.
What is lacrosse, or anetsa?
This was the name the given by Europeans for the region of Mexico, Central America, and the southwestern United States.
What was New Spain?
Colonists in the Southern Colonies had a much shorter lifespan, often as a result of a poor diet and disease, like this mosquito born virus.
What was malaria?