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| What is the capital of South Carolina? | Columbia |
| Charleston grew predominately because it became known as the center of a ________ growing region. | Rice |
| What are the 3 major cash crops of the south? | Rice, tobacco, & indigo |
| Planters often hired teachers from Scotland for their children. Where were children sent to later in life to complete their schooling? | England |
| In the 1700s, what were the 5 Southern colonies? | Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia |
| One major threat that rice planters faced was the mosquitoes. Often, they would carry ________. | Malaria |
| What nearby town supplied St. Mary's city with goods? | Jamestown |
| Tobacco grew best in the rich soil of the Chesapeake Bay _____. | Tidewater |
| In South Carolina and Georgia, there were many fertile land areas where cash crops grew. Where did rice grow best? | Swamplands |
| What was the cruelest part of slavery? | One person could own another. |
| A person who gets paid to buy for someone else is a _______. | Broker |
| What was the last American colony founded by England? | Georgia |
| Other settlements, located a long way from Charleston, helped to divide Carolina into North and South Carolina. Where were the settlements located? | Albermarle Sound |
| Crops that people grow in order to sell and make a profit are known as _________. | Cash crops |
| Many slaves separated from their families ran away to return to their loved ones. Others ran away because_________. | They wanted to be free |
| The Maryland colony was first centered in what city? | St. Mary's City |
| Who was directly responsible for the field slaves? | The Overseer |
| The big planters could afford to buy _______ to help do the planting work. | Slaves |
| There were two kinds of slaves- what were they? | Field Slaves and House Slaves |
| A broad grouping of people who are bound by common laws, traditions, and activities is called a ________. | Society |
| Southern farms were also known as ________. | Plantations |
| Where were plantations located? | On a clearing along a waterway. |
| What was the main building of a plantation? | The planter's house |
| The first place to be settled in Carolina was a good harbor fed by 2 rivers which provided fertile land and a hideaway from Spanish ships. What was the name of this place? | Charleston |
| George Calvert's son who established the colony of Maryland. He was the proprietor of this colony and set forth his ideas that Maryland provide religious freedom to all Christians. | Lord Baltimore |
| In 1733, he founded Georgia. He urged King George II to apprope a colony heere in order to strengthen England's claim to land. | James Oglethorpe |
| A Roman Catholic friend of the King of England in 1632, who wished for a colony to be able to freely practice Catholicism. | George Calvert |
| A free African American in Maryland. Through education, he became an important scientist. He made the first clock in America, as well as the first Almanac. | Benjamin Banneker |
| One of the most famous early Virginia planters. He was an educated man who kept a diary. As a result, we learned much about plantation life. | William Byrd III |
| A Charleston woman in charge of plantations. She spent the majority of her time raising indigo plants. Within a few years South Carolina planters were selling a million pounds of indigo a year. | Eliza Lucas |
