Europeans Arrive
To make full use of in order to gain a benefit; to take advantage of.
What is Exploit?
Valued traditions that are passed down from previous generations.
What is Heritage?
A crop that is grown to sell, not for the grower to use.
What is Cash Crop?
The owner of a property or business, historically, a colony.
What is Proprietor?
A tract of land offered to settlers who would come and work the land.
What is Headright?
The first Europeans to attempt settlement in South Carolina.
What are the Spanish?
A Native American Tribe located near modern day Beaufort, SC.
What are the Yamassee?
The first English Colony to survive in North America. Located in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
A group of 8 people, including Sir John Colleton and Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper.
What are the Lords Proprietors?
Laws of the SC proprietary government. Had new ideas like freedom of religion that most of Europe did not have.
What is the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina?
A group of English Settlers who attempted to settle in North Carolina, but were never heard from or seen again.
What is the Lost Colony?
The reason that so many Native Americans died from diseases.
What is lack of Immunity?
A cash crop known for making colonists very rich. Mostly planted in Virginia.
What is Tobacco?
A settlement that moved from its original location about 10 years after settlement.
What is Charles Town?
A faction of colonial South Carolina, with mostly wealthy plantation owners.
What is the Goose Creek Men?
A Spanish Settlement near modern day Beaufort, South Carolina.
What is Santa Elena?
A staple crop of Native American Society.
What is Corn?
What is Agriculture?
Two Parts:
The two main cash crops of colonial South Carolina.
What is Rice and Indigo?
A group of 48 men, chosen by election and voted on by South Carolina colonists.
What is the Commons House?
The economic policy that European countries used as reason to start a colony.
What is Mercantilism?
A Native American Tribe that relied on rivers for trade.
What are the Catawba?
The trip that enslaved Africans made on a ship from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
A major slave rebellion that occurred outside of Charles Town in 1739.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
In 1729, Royal Governor Robert Johnson created this plan to attract settlers to the backcountry of South Carolina.
What is the Township Plan?