Social behavior within a society; examples: language, music, food, etc.

Raw materials or substances that come from the earth that can be utilized by humans; examples: trees, water, minerals, etc.

Farming method that is used to create a field by cutting and burning forests.

The main agricultural products of the Eastern Woodland Tribes: corn, beans, squash.

Large and powerful Native American nation that lived in the foothills of South Carolina, and they referred to themselves as the "real people."

Native American tribe that lived along the rivers of the Piedmont region in South Carolina, and they referred to themselves as the "river people."

Native American tribe that was originally from the coast of Spanish-held Florida but moved to the mouth of the Savannah River in the South and lived near the ocean.

A fence that was made from sharpened wooden post that surrounded a Native American village.

The type of house that the Cherokee lived in, and it was made from sapling frames covered with bark or mats made from grasses and reeds.

Native American legislative house in which tribal leaders met to establish laws for their tribe.

Spanish "explorers" that conquered native land in their pursuit of finding gold; they were the first Europeans to travel to the New World.

Large Spanish plantations that were worked by Native American slaves and later imported African slaves.

A division of society that is based on economic status.

The theoretical sea route in North America the connected the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean; This was the number one reason France began exploring the New World.

The land that the French claimed in North America the surrounded the Louisiana River.

Systematic laws that mistreated a certain group of people because of their religious beliefs; This was one of the reasons that English people began establishing colonies in the New World.

Idea that the citizens establish and run the government; This form of government is usually run by citizens electing representatives.

A colonies home country that established the settlement and usually controls the settlement as well.

First European explorer to travel through the land of what is now South Carolina; Spanish explorer looking for gold.

First settlement established in the land of what is now South Carolina; Failed French settlement along the Waccamaw River.

Second settlement established in the land of what is now South Carolina; Failed French settlement near modern day Beaufort.

Second failed attempt by the Spanish to establish a settlement in what is now South Carolina; This attempted settlement was built on the abandoned failed French settlement of Charlesfort.

First successful settlement in the land of what is now South Carolina; Successful British settlement that became permanent.

First English attempted settlement in North America; Colonists disappeared.

First permanent English settlement in the New World

System in which the British government gave land to colonist that could pay for their own passage to the New World.

System in which a person worked for a land owner to pay off their debt because the land owner paid for their passage to the New World

Representatives form of government that gave English settlers in the colonies a voice in the colonial government.

English Colonies founded as safe haven for religious group that were persecuted in England.

The group of settlers also known as Pilgrims that established American Democracy when they signed the Mayflower Compact.

English Protestants that established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

English Colonies founded for many different reasons and was the most diverse group of colonies.

English Quaker and Proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania.

English Founded for economic purposes based around agriculture.

A colony that was founded when the King of England gave land to a group of men who then governed the colonist that moved there.

A document that was designed to attract more colonist to the Colony of Carolina and was written by John Locke at the request of the eight Lords Proprietors.

A crop grown for economic reasons.

A Caribbean Islands that was the English Colony where the first colonists in South Carolina were from.

The sea route across the Atlantic Ocean that transported African slaves to North America.

Region in the Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean where England established several colonies.

Raw materials used in the shipbuilding industry.

Largest slave revolt in the English Colonies; Slave revolt that began in Charlestown, South Carolina

Mixture of English and African language that was spoken by slaves who worked on the Sea Island plantations off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia.

Established after the Stono Rebellion in the attempt to control the growing slave population.

The act of a slave owner granting his slaves freedom.

Planted Indigo to her make her families plantation successful.

Plant that produces a blue dye and became a cash crop of South Carolina after Eliza Lucas Pinckney planted it.

The nickname given to rice because of the prosperity it brought South Carolina.

Money or other incentives given by the government in order to promote something.

Economic system in which the mother country controlled a colonies trade in order to export more goods than it imported.

Foreign goods that a country buy and brings into the country.

Goods that a country sells to a foreign country.

Crops, goods, or other products that the colonies could only sell to England.

System in which the English government did not before mercantilism laws and allowed colonies to develop their own economies.

Name given to the branch of government that makes laws.

Name given to the legislative assembly if it has two houses.

Executive branch of the colonial government in South Carolina.

A separate house that was established to give the common people in South Carolina more representation in the colonial government.

Coastal region of South Carolina.

Island region on South Carolina

A colony controlled by a governor that is directly appointed by the English King.

Time when their were no law enforcement or courts in the Backcountry so vigilante groups took the law into their own hands.

Citizens that regulated society by taking the law into their own hands,

War fought in the colonies between the English and the French/Native American allies for possession of the Ohio Valley area; English won.

Conflict between the Cherokee and Colonists living in the Backcountry of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

Because of the debt for the French and Indian War, the English Parliament placed a tariff (import tax) on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses.

Money that citizens pay to support the cost of government.

Law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.; This was the most important tax.

The Legislative branch of the British government; the English body of government that established different taxes after the French and Indian War.

Organizations that led protests, helped American soldiers, instead a boycott, and generally resisted the British; largely responsible for the Boston Tea Party.

Form of protests by refusing to buy something; the Sons and Daughters of Liberty enacted these on different British goods.

Law that taxed glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea that was imported to the colonies.

Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low cost tea directly to the colonies; Angered the Sons and Daughters of Liberty; Led to the Boston Tea Party.

An English joint stock company that controlled most of India.

A protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists led by the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Native Americans and dumped valuable tea into the Boston Harbor.

Set of laws that were intended to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party: Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses.

First form of a colonial legislative assembly in which delegates from the colonies met to decide on how to handle the tension with their Mother Country (England).

A temporary government established to govern the Colony of South Carolina once hostilities began with England; This government replaced the Royal Governor.

Plantation owner Charlestown and became the President of the First Continental Congress.

The first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775) "Shot heard 'round the world."

Delegates of the First Continental Congress net again followign the battle of Lexingto and Concord where they organized the continental Army, called on the colonies to send troops, selected george Washington to lead army, and appointed the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Statement issued by the Second Continental Congress that officially declared the colonies free from British rule.