General 1
The primary reason for founding the Carolina colony was to.....
Open new markets and opportunities for trade
Which statement describes a result of the Revolution of 1719?
South Carolina became a royal colony
This was was the South Carolina Colony's biggest export
Rice (Carolina Gold)
This person was one of the 8 original Lord's Proprietors of Carolina and co-wrote a plan for governing the colonies called the Fundamental Constitutions
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper
50% of all slaves arriving from Africa came through which colonial city?
Charles Town
Which THREE groups of people settled in the Carolina Colony?
Portuguese Immigrants
Spanish Immigrants
Scottish Immigrants
French Huguenots
Jewish Refugees
The purpose of the snake image on my wall to the right was to do what?
encourage the colonies to form a union
This was was the South Carolina Colony's second biggest export
Indigo
This person led experiments with indigo seeds and found a strain that worked in the South Carolina climate and soil
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Where was the original settlement of Charles Town?
What was the 2 reasons Charles Town was moved and rebuilt?
-The original settlement lacked organization
-The original settlement was too small for the growing population
The territory separating South Carolina and Florida was known as the Debatable Land because....
three different countries wanted to control it
this region's geography, with its hot, humid climate and large stretches of wetlands, was well suited for growing tobacco, rice, and other cash crops
Southern Colonies
How are these 2 words connected?
Among the early plantation laborers were European indentured servants who worked in exchange for food, housing, and passage to the colonies.
When their contract ended, typically after four to ten years, they received some land, money, and supplies from their employer.
Planters eventually replaced indentured servants with enslaved Africans, which enabled the rise of a planter class.
Wealthy plantation owners soon held great sway over economic, cultural, and political life in what historians call a plantocracy.
Who settled the Carolina Colony, and how did the colony develop?
The English settled the Carolina Colony and it developed due to a plantocracy where cash crops were used in the Southern Colonies like Carolina.
Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper and the other 8 Lord's Proprietors helped start the colony, but overtime the colony became a Royal Colony where the King put in place a Bicameral Legislature that had 2 houses which made laws and regulation for the colonists
Which event resulted from the Stono rebellion in 1739?
Passage of Slave Code of 1740
Which economic activity most helped South Carolina and other southern colonies become profitable?
growing cash crops
The long growing seasons and fertile farmland of this region were ideal for growing grain
Middle Colonies
How are these 2 words connected?
Some historians suggest that South Carolina was the most diverse of all the colonies.
Inhabitants included Native Americans, Jewish settlers from Barbados, enslaved Africans, and English people who had first settled on the island of Barbados in the West Indies.
This last group brought their parish system.
A parish is a district centered around an Anglican church (the official Church of England), similar to a county.
What were 2 ways that Plantation owners attempted to keep slaves from "causing them problems" or running away?
-Outlawing Reading/Writing
-Splitting up families
To vote for colonial representatives, freemen were required to own at least
50 acres of land
Through mercantilism, colonies....
exist to bring a profit for the mother countries
This region's cold climate and thin, rocky soil made large farms difficult and plantation almost impossible
New England Colonies
How are these 2 words connected?
South Carolina’s new government had a bicameral legislature, with an upper house and a lower house.
The upper house, the Royal Council, reviewed and approved bills from the lower house, the Commons House of Assembly.
Our Congress today is bicameral.
The US Senate is the upper house, and the House of Representatives is the lower house.
Which country did most of the Africans who worked on rice plantations come from?
Sierra Leon