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Early SC

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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.  


   


 

 

 
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