The Carolinas Flashcards
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Carolina Colony (early 1700s)
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- rice = principal exported crop from the Carolinas
- native Americans used as slaves
- need for west African slaves will grow as rice is cultivated further
- Charles Town = busiest seaport in the South - the colonists in the Carolinas are doing a lot of things right and are flourishing
2
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North Carolina
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- Outcasts of Virginia, known as “Squatters”
- reputation for being irreligious
- separates from south Carolina in 1712
3
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Tuscarora War (1711)
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- the Native Americans lose the war and hundreds of Native Americans sold into slavery
- Tuscarora Tribe would join the Iroquois Confederacy
4
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remember this…
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the Carolins open the door to the slave trade. fittingly, south carolina will be the first state to leave the union prior to the civil war in 1860
5
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the Carolinas
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would become the model for other future colonies of England as the colonists had been so successful in prospering economically and socially
6
Q
what essentially caused the tuscarora war?
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native americans got fed up with being used as slaves
7
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when did england start to establish itself in the new world?
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mid to late 1600s
8
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what prompted the idea of native american slavery
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- english men started setting up ports and farms, but did not have the workers to complete the work
- english men did not have the money to send for indentured servants
9
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who are the carolinas named after
A
charles II
