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SC Proprietary
SC Proprietary Colony
Question | Answer |
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men granted the land that would become the Carolina Colony | Lords Proprietors |
governing body that acted as legislators and judges | Grand Council |
legislative body created to represent the common person | Commons House of Assembly |
appointed the governor | Lords Proprietors |
most informed, wealthy, and powerful people | political elite |
political elite in the Carolina colony | wealthy plantation owners / land owners |
region of South Carolina with disproportionate power | lowcountry |
how the Lords Proprietors earned money from the Carolina colony | quitrent |
most colonies had this type of legislature | bicameral |
geographic features that encouraged the development of cash crops | fertile soil, mild climate, long growing season, and marshlands |
trade products gained from Native Americans | deerskins and furs |
South Carolina's main cash crops | rice and indigo |
Carolina Gold | rice |
Person who's secrets of cultivating indigo made it a major crop | Eliza Lucan Pinckney |
Major seaport in SC | Charleston |
Export more than import | mercantilism |
England was this to South Carolina | mother country |
Purpose of colonies in mercantile system | source of raw materials and market for goods |
Bonuses offered by the British to encourage the growth of certain products | subsidies |
list of products the British guaranteed they would purchase | enumerated list |
product from pine trees used to make ships watertight | naval stores |
people from this place moved to SC and brought with them the plantation system, slave trade, and land-based social system | Barbados |