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Economy and Slavery
SC Economy and slavery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a document granting permission to a person or group | charter |
| an owner or manager of a business | proprietor |
| economic system used to bring profit to the mother country | mercantilism |
| a counrty that supports or controls a colony | Mother Country |
| products, such as tar, from pine trees used to waterproof ships | naval stores |
| a deliberate or organized attempt to resist authority | rebellion |
| common language spoken by slaves in Charleston | Gullah |
| the trip made by slaves across the atlantic | Middle Passage |
| The trade route between Africa, America and Europe | Triangular Trade |
| First cash crop in SC | rice |
| 2nd Cash crop in SC | Indigo |
| Eliza Lucas Pinckney introduced this crop | indigo |
| Rice needed lots of water so it could only be grown in what part of the colony | Low Country |
| The first settlers in SC came from England and what other place | Barbados |
| Most slaves came from the rice growing region of what part of Africa | West |
| Laws made to restrict slaves and prevent a revolt | Slave Codes |
| The first slave revolt in colonial SC | Stono Rebellion |
| The economy of SC centered around what | plantations |
| A system in which settlers were given land | headright |