Quiz 2A - Colonial Carolina

Which cash crop grown in South Carolina was considered "Carolina Gold"?

• Rice

• Indigo

• Tobacco

• Cotton

Many of the first English colonists of South Carolina came originally from what Caribbean Island?

• Cuba

• Barbados

• Jamaica

• Bahamas

Who is credited with bringing and making the indigo industry very profitable for South Carolina?

• Francis Marion

• John Locke

• Maryland

• Eliza Lucas Pinckney

What is one way proprietary colonies differed from royal colonies?

• Proprietary colonies were established to give religious freedom to their settlers.

• Proprietary colonies were ruled under the direct supervision of the king or queen.

• Proprietary colonies were created to allow Native Americans to have a place to live.

• Proprietary colonies were land granted to individuals as the payment of debt by the king.

Which of the following was NOT a reason that South Carolina went from a Proprietary Colony to a Royal Colony?

• No protection from Native Attacks

• Pirates continuously terrorized the Carolinas and the Lord's Proprietors did nothing

• The Spanish continued to attack Carolina

• The selling of indigo made the Lord's Proprietors so much money, that they chose to retire and trade

Mercantilism allowed the colonies to become wealthier than their mother country.

• True

• False

Georgia was started as a "buffer colony" to separate between Spanish Florida and SC

• True

• False

Carolina Gold became such a popular crop because it was cheap and easy to grow

• True

• False

Naval Stores were SC first successful cash crop

• True

• False

Settlers from Barbados brought a well-developed slave system that became the model for the SC colony

• True

• False