Exploration and Settlement of SC

Development of the Carolina colony under the Lords Proprietors and the royal colonial government.

Exploration and settlement of SC

Today we will summarize the development of our state of SC by specific inhabitants.

Settlement and trade by Barbados and the influence of other immigrant groups.
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People from many different cultures settled in South Carolina during colonial times Each group made a significant contribution to the culture and character of South Carolina.

The English were the first to establish a permanent colony in the SC.

Charles Town was a successful colony because the English and the Native Americans learned how to cooperate and help each other.

Look back in your notes on the explorers. Who was the explorer who began the settlement of Charles Town and what is it called today?

Great Britain was the first European country to take an interest in the Carolina coast They claimed land in North America that would become South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. King Charles gave the entire area to eight Lords Proprietors for a repayment of a debt, and they named it Carolina.

King Charles II

A proprietor is a business or land owner. A proprietor has the right to say how their property is used. Sometimes proprietors work as a group to settle one area.

If you were one of the Lords Proprietors, what would be the first thing you did to develop your new permanent colony?

Turn and discuss this with your neighbor

As a Lord Proprietor, what would you to do to attract people to move to your new permanent colony?

Turn and discuss this with your neighbor.

One of the Proprietors was Lord Ashley Cooper. The two rivers in Charleston were named for him. He is known as the most energetic of the Proprietors.

This was a document that set 128 articles or rules for governing Carolina The Constitutions of Carolina established a representative government It guaranteed religious freedom in the colony By doing this they transferred the traditions of democratic government from England to South Carolina.

When the Lord Proprietors decided to explore Carolina and build their colony, they needed people to live there. They offered English settlers land, religious freedom, and voting rights to come to the new land.

Why would religious freedom be appealing potential colonists?

Settlers left Great Britain and traveled to Barbados where they picked up more settlers and slaves Barbados is an English Colony in the Caribbean Sea. The Barbadians grew sugar cane on large plantations and made a fortune for themselves and England. They needed more land to expand their plantation system. The plantation system on Barbados became the model for the Carolina settlement.

Barbados

Rice Plantations
Indigo Plantations

South Carolina became on of the richest of the thirteen colonies because of their rice and indigo plantations

The Huguenots were French Protestants who were persecuted or treated badly in Catholic France. They were forced to go to the Catholic church. They came to South Carolina for religious freedom. The Huguenots started the South Carolina Society which started schools and helped the poor.

European Jews were also attracted to the colony because of its religious freedom. They established a synagogue in Charleston They contributed to the citys economic growth.

The German and Scotch-Irish people came to settled the backcountry, or up country as we know it. This area became known as the breadbasket of the colony. These rugged individualists were hardworking farmers. They were sometimes scorned or looked down on by the elite or rich people of the coast.

The Native Americans in the back country continued to threaten the new settlers The settlers did not feel that the Lords Proprietors were protecting them They asked the King to take over the colony King Charles did take over the colony He sent a Royal Governor to govern or take charge of South Carolina

Back country

You are a Lords Proprietor trying to encourage new settlers to settle on your new land. In your notebook, create a flyer to attract settlers. Remember to look back in your notes to see how they enticed people to move to their land!