Geography & Settlement
This geographic feature gave large merchant ships direct access to Charles Town.
What is a deepwater harbor?
This 1620 agreement showed that colonists could work together to create laws and govern their community.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Unlike crops grown mainly to feed a family, these crops were grown to be sold for profit.
What are cash crops?
Enslaved West Africans brought agricultural knowledge that was especially important to the development of this Carolina cash crop.
What is rice?
This economic system was designed to make the colonies produce raw materials and support the wealth of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
European contact brought this to Native American communities and caused major population losses.
What are European diseases?
South Carolina established these settlements near rivers to attract settlers, provide protection, and support trade.
What are townships?
These eight men received authority from King Charles II to govern the Carolina Colony.
Who are the Lords Proprietors?
This crop, nicknamed "Carolina Gold," became one of South Carolina's most valuable exports.
What is rice?
This forced voyage carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas under extremely harsh conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
These British laws restricted colonial trade and required much of it to be conducted using English ships and ports.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Native Americans and European settlers held drastically different views on the concept of the private possession of this resource.
What is private land ownership?
This region of South Carolina had very little access to courts and political representation.
What is the Backcountry?
This document provided a plan for Carolina's government and encouraged religious tolerance.
What is the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina?
Eliza Lucas Pinckney helped establish this crop as an important second cash crop in South Carolina.
What is indigo?
This culture developed in coastal South Carolina by blending African traditions in areas such as language, music, and food.
What is Gullah Geechee culture?
Rice and indigo were important examples of these goods that South Carolina produced for overseas trade.
What are raw materials?
Early South Carolina colonists developed relationships with Native American groups through this activity, which usually led to debt and conflict.
What is trade?
Fertile soil and a long growing season made this region especially well suited for growing cash crops on plantations.
What is the Lowcountry?
South Carolina changed to this type of colony in 1719, placing control in the hands of the king.
What is a Royal Colony?
This system encouraged immigration by giving land to settlers based on the number of people they brought to the colony.
What is the headright system?
This 1739 uprising by enslaved people led South Carolina's government to place greater restrictions on enslaved people's lives.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This trade network connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas through the exchange of goods, resources, and enslaved people.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Rising tensions between Native Americans and colonists over unfair trade practices, enslavement, and land encroachment led to this war.
What is the Yamasee War?
By the mid-1700s, this South Carolina city had become wealthy and diverse because of its role in agricultural exports and Atlantic trade.
What is Charles Town?
Settlers in the Backcountry became increasingly frustrated due to the lack of this.
What is political representation?
This ruling class of wealthy, influential landowners dominated the social and political structure of the plantation economy.
What is the plantocracy?
Passed in 1740, this law restricted enslaved people's ability to gather, learn to read, earn money, and exercise other freedoms.
What is the Slave Code of 1740?
Although Britain attempted to control colonial trade, this policy allowed the colonies to operate with greater economic independence.
What is salutary neglect?
European settlers changed Native American societies through trade, conflict, disease, and the introduction of new technologies such as these.
What are metal tools an weapons?