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WorksheetsFounding SC
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What enabled South Carolina plantation owners to become very wealthy due to the growing of cash crops?
Indentured Servants
Slaves
Joints Stock Company
Universal male suffrage
Carolina is referred to as "the colony of a colony" because many settlers came from this Carribean British colony.
Barbados
Cuba
Guam
Bahamas
What did King Charles II of England give to the eight Lord Proprietors for their loyal support?
Gold
Slaves
Nothing
Land in the New World
What was the economy of South Carolina and other Southern Colonies based on?
Shipbuilding
Trading with Natives
Harvesting lumber
Plantation systems
African slaves had knowledge of growing what crop?
Indigo
Rice
Cotton
Sugar
How did the Gullah culture develop along the coast of South Carolina?
The geographic isolation from outside influences and high concentration of a mixed African population
The coast was the only places slaves were located in South Carolina
The auction blocks where slaves were sold was located along the coast
The government did not have money to educate the slaves
Where were the naval stores harvested from that were used to seal the bottom of ships making them waterproof?
Oil deposits
Tobacco leaves
Lowcountry marshes
Pine trees
What was the result of the Stono Rebellion?
The slaves were able to make it to Spanish Florida and get their freedom.
The Slave Codes were strengthened to control slave life.
The slave trade was restricted in the colony of South Carolina.
The slaves were able to make it the west and gain land of their own.
Why was rice known as "Carolina Gold"?
Rice production was extremely expensive for plantation owners
Rice was sold directly to England in exchange for gold
Rice provided South Carolina a profitable cash
Rice was found located next to a gold mine
Which of the following best explains Eliza Lucas Pinckney's role in South Carolina's history?
She improved the social and cultural class of slaves
She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement
She successfully cultivated indigo which brought prosperity to the state
She helped in making the production of rice as South Carolina cash crop
The system of ______________ originated in ____________ and allowed the plantation owning _____________ to have all political and economic power in the colony.
plantocracy - England - commoners
democracy - England - elite
plantocracy - Barbados - elite
autocracy - West Indies - immigrants
Where were slaves trying to escape to during the Stono Rebellion?
Charleston, South Carolina
St. Augustine, Florida
Jamestown, Virginia
Savannah, Georgia
The following example depicts what series of laws that regulated trade with the colonies?
"sugar, tobacco, cotton, wool, indigo, and ginger-that were to be shipped only to England or an English province."
Shipping Acts
Salutary Neglect
Navigation Acts
British Trading Regulations
Provide 3 ways slaves lives were limited with the passage of the Slave Codes. (Choose 3 answers.)
Prohibited slaves from gathering without white supervision.
Prohibited slaves from reading and writing.
Prohibited slaves from being sold to other plantations.
Prohibited slaves from dressing above the condition of slaves.
The Task System
This system was common in growing tobacco and sugar. Enslaved people were put in groups to work from dawn to dusk and were under constant supervision.
This system was common in growing rice and cotton. Jobs that required specific knowledge were assigned to particular enslaved people, and once their job was complete they were done for the day. Sometimes this meant less supervision.
The Gang System
This system was common in growing tobacco and sugar. Enslaved people were put in groups to work from dawn to dusk and were under constant supervision.
This system was common in growing rice and cotton. Jobs that required specific knowledge were assigned to particular enslaved people, and once their job was complete they were done for the day. Sometimes this meant less supervision.
