Colonial South Carolina

The Lord Proprietors expected the settlers in the colony to pay an annual rent called a

• headright
• lease
• quitrent
• taxes

King Charles II granted a charter to 8 men, these men were the owners & managers of the colony. These men were referred to as...

• Lord Proprietors
• Investor
• Governor
• President

The first permanent English settlement in the Carolina colony was called

• Charleston
• Oyster Point
• Charles Town
• Albemarle Point

In the Carolina charter, the Lord Proprietors could declare war, make peace, sentence people to death, raise an army, and collect taxes.

• True
• False

Who was most responsible for the planning and the support to establish a successful English settlement  in the Carolina colony?

• Sir Robert Heath
• King Charles I
• Anthony Ashley Cooper
• William Hilton

What was the greatest impact Barbados had on the economy of Carolina?

• Barbados was a French colony competing with Carolina’s indigo trade.
• Carolina colonists traded naval stores with Barbados.
  
• Barbadians traded deer skins with the natives in Carolina.
• Barbadians brought a well-developed slave code and plantation economy.
  

Which is true of the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina?

• It set up the government of the English colonies in North America and protected the  Native Americans.
  
• It established the idea that common people formed the government.
• It allowed religious freedom in the Carolinas to encourage settlement and increase profits.
• It was established to give settlers a voice in the governance of the colony.

Why were the colonists unhappy with the Proprietors?

• They did not help the colonists in their conflicts with the Indians.
• They did not help the colonists in their conflicts with the Pirates.
• They did not help the colonists in their conflicts with the Spanish.
• They did not help the colonists in their conflicts with the Indians, the Pirates, and the Spanish.
  

What economic policy of the Carolinians helped to ruin their good relationship with the Indians?

• forcing them to cultivate rice
• growing tobacco on the Indians’ land
• mistreating and selling Indians into slavery
  
• cutting back on the amount of furs they purchased
  

Why did the Yamassee Indians attack the settlers in South Carolina?

• The settlers were making them slaves.
• The settlers were taking their land.
• The settlers were cheating them in business.
• All of the above