Lesson 3: European Settlers

Which countries began settling in the Americas in the 1400s?

• Spain, England, Portugal, Netherlands, and France

• England and Russia

• Portugal, Spain, and Canada

• Denmark, Australia, South Africa, England, and Canada.

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What was the first European settlement in South Carolina?

• Jamestown by the English

• San Miguel de Gualdape by the Spanish explorer de Ayllon.

• Port Royal by Ribault and French Huguenots

• Santa Elena by the Spanish

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What was the main reason why most of the first settlements in South Carolina failed?

• Conflicts with Native Americans

• They settlers were killed by wild animals

• harsh and unfair treatment by the leaders of the settlements

• Lack of food and disease

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What was the first SUCCESSFUL settlement in South Carolina?

• Columbia

• Myrtle Beach

• Charles Town

• Aiken

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Why did proprietors, or people who owned land, bring enslaved people to South Carolina?

• They needed workers to grow the crops (sugar cane).

• They needed more people living in the area.

• They needed more workers to transport goods out of Charles Town.

• They needed to move a settlement from Ashley River to Cooper River.

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How did the Lord Proprietors (men who received land in North America from the king of England) encourage settlers to move to Charles Town?

• They named a river after the proprietor who helped make the Carolina colony a success.

• Settlers hoped to earn money in South Carolina by growing Sugar Cane.

• They offered settlers land, religious freedom, and voting rights.

• In 1663, the king of England, Charles II, gave land in North America to eight men called Lord Proprietors.

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When the settlements of Beaufort and St. Helena were established, what problems arose with the Yemassee who lived there?

• Some settlers treated the Native Americans unfairly causing the Yemassee to fight to keep their land.

• The English and Native Americans traded with each other.

• The English exchanged beads, tools, and other goods for deer and other animal skins.

• The English and the Yemassee helped one another.

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What was the Yemassee War?

• A war between the Yemassee Native Americans and other Native American groups about land.

• A war that occurred because the Yemassee did not want to trade with the English settlers anymore.

• A war between the Yemassee and other Native American groups and the settlers in South Carolina over land rights and to preseve the Yemassee's way of life.

• A war between the English settlers located in Yemassee, South Carolina over land.

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What was the outcome of the Yemassee War?

• Disease killed many English settlers allowing the Yemassee to win the war.

• The Yemassee and the settlers came to an agreement and continued to trade and help each other.

• The English settlers lost and had to move away from Beaufort and St. Helena.

• The Yemassee lost the war and were forced to move south of the Savannah River and join other tribal groups.

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What killed many Native Americans after European settlers arrived in North America?

• Many were held prisoner by the settlers.

• They were all killed in wars with European settlers.

• Disease killed many Native Americans because they had no immunity to diseases that Europeans brought with them to the Americas.

• Millions chose to go live in England and France.

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