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SC Proprietary
SC Proprietary Colony
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |