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Colonial Life
Term | Definition |
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Regulators | provided law and order in the SC backcountry |
mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and buy selling more goods than they buy |
Stono Rebellion | the largest slave revolt of enslaved people in the American colonies |
Middle Passage | enslaved Africans came to the American colonies from the coast of Africa to British ports, the West Indies, and to American ports |
cash crops | a crop grown to be sold to earn money |
Gullah | a common language created by enslaved Africans, often used English words and newly created words |
Naval Stores | products used to outfit and supply the navy, such as pitch, tar, and tall trees used for masts |
Carolina Gold | a name for rice because it grew so well in SC and became a cash crop |
Eliza Lucas Pinckney | managed her families' plantations and was successful in growing indigo |
export | to send products outside the country to sell |
import | goods brought into a country to sell |
salutary neglect | unofficial British policy avoiding the strict enforcement of British laws upon the American colonies |
Lord Proprietors | eight supporters to whom King Charles II of England gave a grant to establish a colony that included land that later became SC |
lowcountry | a geographic and cultural region located along SC's coast |
backcountry | the area between the coastal settlements and the Native American settlements of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains |
royal government | a government that is under the control of a king |
indigo | a cash crop of SC that was used to make blue dye |