1. Relations Between Natives &
European Settlers
Standard 8-1.2: Compare
motives, activities, and
accomplishments of the exploration
of South Carolina an North America
by the Spanish, French, and
English.

2. The Spanish
• Hernando de Soto was the first
European to have contact with Native
Americans in SC.
He was in search of GOLD….
But only found
COPPER!

3. • When the Spanish didn’t find
gold, they started setting up
encomiendas (large
plantations) where Native
Americans were put to work
(enslaved) to produce wealth
for their Spanish Masters.
• Disease &
overwork
decimated the
native
population.
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4. •African slaves were
brought to SC to
replace the
dwindling Native
population (1700’s)
•Slaves worked on
plantations and in
mines
The Spanish built cities & established
universities, transferring a complex social
class system, their style of government, &
their Catholic religion to the New World.

5. De Soto’s descriptive journals of the
Mississippians gives modern day historians
a wealth of information about the early
Native Americans.

6. The French
• Searched for the Northwest
Passage
• Established settlements in
Montreal & Quebec
• Only Catholic French were
allowed to immigrate to the
New World
• They used the rivers to travel
and established good
relationships with the natives
in order to trade for furs.

7. The English
• Claimed lands along the east coast
of North America, for the king.
• Later permanent settlements in the
area named Virginia and New
England
• Settlers seen prospects of gold and
tobacco in these settlements
• Others were fleeing religious
persecution & founded societies
based on their shared religious
values

8. The English
• All English settlers brought their
culture, including language, Protestant
religions, and ideas about self-
government to the New World

9. South Carolina Colony
Neither France nor Spain could establish
a permanent settlement in SC
Conditions at the settlements & trouble
back in the mother countries resulted in
them abandoning their SC settlements
Spain founded the San Miguel de
Gualdape settlement along the
Waccamaw River near present –
day Georgetown (1520’s).. But
abandoned it 

10. South Carolina Colony
The French founded Charelsfort near
present-day Beaufort, but abandoned it
in the 1560’s
Spain tried again by founding San Felipe
on the ruins of the French Charlesfort
(lasted 10 years)
Native Americans attacked the
settlement… survivors fled to
St. Augustine, FL.

11. South Carolina Colony
The English succeeded with their
permanent colony- Charles Town
(1670) Now known as Charleston

12. New World
Settlements