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| King Charles II’s purpose in creating the Carolina colony? | Create a buffer colony between Virginia and Spanish Florida Pay off a debt to 8 noblemen |
| John Locke | wrote the Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolina |
| Grand Council? | made up of representatives of the Lord Proprietors, the elite, and commoners |
| headright system | Pay for passage, settle, and/or invest and get land |
| How LordProprietors made money | charge quitrents, collect taxes control trade |
| Motives to leave Barbados for Carolina | poor white men could gain political, economic, and social opportunity |
| influence of Barbados | slave system, slave codes, immunity to disease |
| contribution of West African slaves | cattle herding, rice growing, disease free hard labour |
| Gullah | A common language created by the slaves from West Africa that mixed several African languages with English |
| Gullah slaves treated differently | assigned daily tasks and once they were completed, they had free time |
| Eliza Lucas Pinkney | developed an indigo plant that would grow in South Carolina |
| impact of indigo on economy | high-quality, expensive dye highly, paid a bounty to grow it |
| biggest cash crop of the colony | rice/Carolina Gold |
| mercantilism | economic policy intended to increase a nation’s wealth by using colonies as a source of raw materials so a nation could export more than it imported. |
| Navigation Acts | Colonists were only allowed to trade with England using English ships with English crews |
| North Carolina | settled by poor farmers from Virginia |
| South Carolina | settled by prosperous plantation owners |
| 1712 | Carolina was split into two separate colonies |
| Church Act | made the Anglican Church the official church of South Carolina and broke the territory into parishes |
| parish | election district |
