Student Name: ____________________________
Date: _____________
Standard Indicator 8-1.4 & 8-1.5
Development of the South Carolina Colony
1. Describe the significance that African Americans played in development of the economy of SC.
2. What was the economy of South Carolina based on?
3. Why did the crops in South Carolina require so many workers?
4. Why did Carolina use fewer indentured servants than the Virginia colony?
5. What group did the Carolina Planters initially try to use to work their fields?
6. Why were these efforts largely unsuccessful?
7. The first African American slaves introduced into the Carolina’s come from where?
8. Define the Middle Passage?
9. How were the slaves that came through the Middle Passage sold?
10. Describe some of knowledge that the slaves brought with them from their lands.
11. What were some of the products that the Slaves harvested?
12. How did these goods “contribute to a thriving trade with Barbados and England?”
13. What factors led to an increase of Slave Trade?
14. Beginning in the 1690’s thousands of African Slaves entered the Colonies through the Port of ________.
15. The growing demand for both ________ and __________ led plantation owners to import more slaves.
16. Describe some of the aspects of West African culture brought to Carolina by slaves.
17. Define Call and Response songs.
18. How did the slaves use these songs?
19. Why were these songs banned?
20. What was the Stono Rebellion?
21. Describe some of the African foods that became a staple of the southern diet.
22. What was Gullah?
23. Where was Gullah developed?
24. Why was the Gullah/ Geechee language unique to this area (Lowcountry)?
25. Although they began worrying about the numbers of slaves in the colony, why didn’t the assembly want to limit
their numbers?
26. What factors created the population imbalance between slaves and settlers?
27. Describe the events of the Stono Rebellion.
28. As a result of the Stono Rebellion, what was strengthened?
29. Define Slaves Codes. What did they prohibit?
30. Although the codes established tighter control on the slaves, the slave trade was _______.
31. South Carolina had fewer __________ than many other colonies.
32. Define Manumit.
33. Describe some of the various ways that slaves could be set free.
34. What factors did the law play in the relatively few free African Americans found in South Carolina?
35. What would happen if a freed slave didn’t leave South Carolina within 6 months?
36. Why did the majority of freed blacks live in urban areas?
37. How did the rights of owners to free their slaves change after the American Revolution?
38. Describe South Carolina’s natural resources that were considered profitable.
39. What factors made the Lowcountry suitable for Rice planting?
40. Describe some geographic features that gave South Carolina an advantage in terms of trading.
41. What initially made the Carolinas a profitable colony?
42. What led to an end of the good relationship between the settlers and the Native Americans?
43. Why did South Carolina have an early thriving trade with Barbados?
44. Describe some of the items that the early Carolina settlers traded with Barbados?
45. Define Ship Stores (naval stores).
46. The growing slave trade didn’t just produce laborers for the colony, what other important things did the slaves
bring with them?
47. Define “Carolina Gold”
48. Define Staple Crop”
49. What two things resulted in a growing agricultural economy?
50. Who was Eliza Lucas? Where was she from? Why did she first plant Indigo?
51. What was indigo used for?
52. Define Subsidy/ Bounty
53. Define Mercantilism?
54. How did Mercantilism affect South Carolina?
55. South Carolina served as both a source of _________ and a _______ for British goods.
56. How did this affect the mother country’s dependence on imported goods?
57. Describe one of the ways that the British Government encouraged the development of new products?
58. Define “enumerated” products? (Enumerated list)
59. What major Carolina crops were on the enumerated list?
60. How did the enumerated list aid (help) the Carolina planters?
61. The British Government did not enforce a part of the mercantilist policy when dealing with Carolina rice, how did
this affect the colony?
62. Define Salutary Neglect?
63. How did Salutary Neglect affect the people of British North America?