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Colonial Life

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Regulators   provided law and order in the SC backcountry  
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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  
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Stono Rebellion   the largest slave revolt of enslaved people in the American colonies  
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Middle Passage   enslaved Africans came to the American colonies from the coast of Africa to British ports, the West Indies, and to American ports  
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cash crops   a crop grown to be sold to earn money  
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Gullah   a common language created by enslaved Africans, often used English words and newly created words  
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Naval Stores   products used to outfit and supply the navy, such as pitch, tar, and tall trees used for masts  
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Carolina Gold   a name for rice because it grew so well in SC and became a cash crop  
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney   managed her families' plantations and was successful in growing indigo  
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export   to send products outside the country to sell  
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import   goods brought into a country to sell  
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salutary neglect   unofficial British policy avoiding the strict enforcement of British laws upon the American colonies  
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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  
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lowcountry   a geographic and cultural region located along SC's coast  
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backcountry   the area between the coastal settlements and the Native American settlements of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains  
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royal government   a government that is under the control of a king  
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indigo   a cash crop of SC that was used to make blue dye  
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