Slavery
The specific language and cultural heritage that developed among enslaved Africans in the isolated low country of South Carolina.
What is Gullah/Geechee?
The primary reason for conflict between Native Americans and English settlers in South Carolina.
What are land disputes (or taking away land)?
The primary issue with the original physical location of Charles Town.
What was the disease (or swampy location)?
Crops like tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton rare aised in large quantities and sold for profit.
What is a cash crop?
Colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown and King George III during the American Revolution.
Who are Loyalists?
This term describes the trade route that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade (or Middle Passage)?
This war in the early 1700s significantly reduced the American Indian slave trade in South Carolina, leading settlers to increase their reliance on African slaves instead.
What was the Yamasee War?
Charles Town was a major port of entry for these two groups of people in British North America.
Who were free and coerced (enslaved) settlers?
These two cash crops were the main economic drivers in South Carolina and Georgia during the colonial period.
What are rice and indigo?
Colonists in South Carolina, such as Christopher Gadsden, supported independence from Great Britain.
Who are the Patriots?
South Carolina initially attempted to enslave this group as a primary labor force before relying heavily on African slaves.
Who were Native Americans?
One of the major tribes, along with the Cherokee and Yamasee, lived near the settlers in colonial South Carolina.
Who were the Catawba?
The name of the man who was one of the eight proprietors and kept a strong interest in establishing the colony, including moving the settlement to a better location.
Who was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper?
This woman perfected the cultivation of indigo in South Carolina.
Who is Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
The warfare tactic was effectively used by Patriot militia forces, such as Francis Marion's "Swamp Fox" group, against British forces in South Carolina.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The largest slave rebellion in the British colonies occurred in South Carolina in 1739.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
A famous South Carolina Patriot earned the nickname "The Wizard Owl" for his skilled negotiations with Native Americans during the Revolution.
Who is Andrew Pickens?
The material used to build the defenses of Fort Moultrie (then known as Fort Sullivan) absorbed British cannonballs during the Revolutionary War, ultimately saving Charleston.
What are palmetto logs?
The economic system that used slave labor on cash crop plantations helped to support the British Empire.
What is mercantilism?
This battle was a turning point for the Patriots in the South, paving the way for eventual victory at Yorktown.
What is the Battle of Cowpens?
South Carolina had the highest ratio of Black slaves to white colonists in English North America, reaching this percentage by 1715.
What is sixty percent (or a majority)?
The British government attempted to prevent conflict between colonists and Native Americans by issuing this decree after the French and Indian War.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
In the 1730s, a plan was implemented to attract more European immigrants to the backcountry to serve as a buffer against threats from enslaved people, Native Americans, and European rivals.
What was the Township Plan?
The type of labor system, unique to South Carolina, where enslaved individuals were given specific daily jobs, and any extra time was their own.
What is the task system?
This British Lieutenant Colonel earned the nickname "Bloody Ban" for his treatment of rebel prisoners at the Battle of Waxhaws.
Who is Banastre Tarleton?