SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT

NATIVE AMERICANS

• They would work on farms and grow; corn,pole beans, squash, and tobacco
• They would tell stories (tradition)
• Catawban homes were made of sapling frames covered with bark or mats made of grass (wigwams)
• Traded furs, deerskins.....eventually Europeans tricked them into slavery

EUROPEANS

• Spanish brought African Slaves work on plantations and mines.
• Spanish explored mostly for gold
• English sailed along North America claiming land for the King
• Spain founded San Miguel de Gualdape
• English founded first permanent settlement (Charles Town) in 1670

AFRICANS

• Africans were enslaved and worked on plantations
• Slave codes were to prevent another revolt after the stono rebellion
• Stono rebellion was the biggest revolt by African slaves
• Some slaves were able to purchase their freedom if they had special talents

ECONOMY

• Rice was the main cash crop that made the most money (Carolina gold)
• Indigo became became a common cash crop...was a blue dye
• Practiced mercantilism which caused more money to come in

GOVERNMENT

• Proprietary government is a government ruled by a group of lords proprietors
• Royal government was one that was ruled by a king
• Proprietors were thrown out because they did not provide much protection