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8-1
Early SC
Question | Answer |
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Alliances | Native American tribes working together or in an agreement with each other. |
Barbados | British plantation owners brought slaves and plantations from Barbados to SC. |
Bartering | This is trade without using money. An example would be Native American Deerskins for European Guns. |
Cash Crop | A crop that brings a colony a lot of money. |
Clan | A family group within Native American tribes. |
Colony | One part of a country loyal to its mother country. |
Council | The elders of a Native American tribe that helped the chief run the tribe. |
Economy | The amount of money people spend and make. |
Gullah | English and African dialects mixed and used by slaves. |
Headright | Lord Proprietors gave people land based on how many people they had with them. |
Longhouses | Native Americans used Longhouses for storage. |
Low Country | Well educated, rich, plantation and slave owning, upper class of SC. |
Mercantilism | Englands way of controlling trade in the colonies. |
Militia | Non-professional (unpaid) soldiers. |
Naval Stores | Tar and Pitch was used to make ships watertight/ water proof. |
Plantation | Large farms that used slave labor. |
Proprietary | Lord Proprietors ran the colony collecting taxes for the King of England, but did not provide enough protection for the Back Country. |
Proprietor | People who were given land to govern and make money for Britain. |
Regulators | Movement of people taking the law in their own hands in the Back Country. |
Rivalry | Two sides opposing each other like Catawba vs. Cherokee or British vs. French or Back Country vs. Low Country |
Royal | A colony run by the King and not Proprietors. |
Settlement | An attempt to start a civilized community. |
Slavery | Africans bought and sold to work on plantations due to cheap labor. |
Stono Rebellion | Slave rebellion near the Stono River that led to Slave Codes legally restricting the rights of slaves. |
Thatched House | This was a type of permanent housing used by the Native Americans. |
Tribe | A Native American society. |
Up/Back Country | Uneducated, Undeveloped, Poor, Subsistence Farmers in the back part of SC. |
Wigwams | This was a type of permanent housing used by the Native Americans. |