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 1740 law was created in South Carolina in response to a major slave revolt.
What is the Slave Code of 1740?
These were large-scale agricultural operations that relied on enslaved labor to produce cash crops like rice and indigo.
What are plantations?
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?
This was the largest slave uprising in the British colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Many of the enslaved people brought to South Carolina were first brought to this island for quarantine and inspection.
What is Sullivan's Island
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?
On their march toward Florida, the rebels were met and ultimately defeated by this group.
What is the South Carolina militia?
The enslaved African population that passed through here brought with them a rich culture that influenced the Lowcountry, particularly this unique culture.
What is Gullah Culture?
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 cultivation of this crop was central to the South Carolina plantation economy.
What is rice?
A fear of a slave uprising was widespread among white plantation owners, due to this demographic reality in colonial South Carolina.
What is the fact that enslaved people outnumbered white colonists?
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?
A fear of a slave uprising was widespread among white plantation owners, due to this demographic reality in colonial South Carolina.
What is the fact that enslaved people outnumbered white colonists?
This former proprietary colony, known for its lucrative rice and indigo crops, eventually became a royal colony due to the dissatisfaction of its inhabitants.
What is South Carolina?