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Early SC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |