SOUTH CAROLINA

FOUNDERS OF THE COLONY

• The South Carolina colony was founded by King Charles II in 1663.
• He gave the land to eight noble men, or known as the Lord Proprietors.
• North Carolina and South Carolina were founded together and they split later on.

REASONS FOUNDED

• This was founded for farming and trading.
• People were also tired of religious rules, so they came to live their own religion.
• Also, proprietors wanted to raise money buy selling land in the colonies.

PEOPLE IN THE COLONY

• The majority of the population was African Americans when more cotton plantations came in.
• Many people that came from different countries came to the colony.
• Also a wide range of people with different religions lived in South Carolina.

CLIMATE AND GEOGRAPHY

• The climate in the South Carolina Colony was usually warm.
• The winters were not hard to survive.
• The warm, humid summers made it easire for diseases to spread.
• The warm climate made it easier to grow crops.

ECONOMY IN THE COLONY

• The South Carolina Colony concentrated on agriculture.
• They made different kinds of plantations.
• They grew tobacco, rice, cotton, and indigo.

RELIGION

• The South Carolina colony was not mainly one religion.
• Jews, Quakers, Bapitist, and other religions lived in the colony.
• Catholics were prohibited to practice their religion until after the American Revolution

POLITICS

• South Carolina was a Royal Colony.
• A Royal Colony is ruled by a governor and a council.
• It also had a represenitive assembly that was chosen by the people.

SOURCES

• http://mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/sccolony/
• http://www.landofthebrave.info/south-carolina-colony.htm
• http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_period_of_South_Carolina
• http://www.landofthebrave.info/royal-colonies.htm
• http://avoca37.org/12hitomin/2011/01/28/south-carolina-colonial-brochure/