Founding SC/13 Colonies

Which region of the 13 colonies was called "the breadbasket"?

• New England colonies
• Middle colonies
• Southern colonies
• North Central colonies

Southern colonies were established to

• offer religious freedom
• produce cash crops
• build forts for protection
• build needed industries

The first permanent English settlement in South Carolina was

• Charlesfort
• Charles Town
• Jamestown
• Plymouth

Many of the earliest settlers and slaves to Charles Town came from

• Barbados
• Bermuda
• Haiti
• Cuba

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

Who were the Lords Proprietors?

• ministers who wanted to separate from the Church of England
• men who supported the king and received a charter from him
• military leaders to keep the natives under control
• men who established a Royal Colony

Eliza Lucas Pinckney perfected a new way of growing which crop?

• Cotton
• Rice
• Corn
• Indigo

Which of the following was one of the Euorpean's motives for exploring the New WOrld?

• Disney World
• higher paying jobs
• gold and treasure

The impact of mercantilism was that

• The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

• Trade was limited in the Atlantic

• The Colony grew wealthy

• The Mother Country grew wealthy

Why were Africans captured and forced to work in the Americas?

• to share riches and wealth with them
• to provide more workers for the plantations
• to give them diseases
• to spread Christianity