1. SC’s History
of European
Settlement
8-1.3: Summarize the history of
English settlement, the mid-
Atlantic region, and the South,
with an emphasis on SC as an
example of a distinctly southern
colony.
2. Jamestown
• First permanent English settlement
in the New World (1607)
• Tobacco made the settlement
successful
• Large tobacco plantations created
conflict with the local natives over
land
• Established by a joint stock company
(The London Company)
3. The London Company ….
• Provided Landholdings through paid
passage to settlement (indentured
servants)
• Late 1600’s- African slaves became
more reliable source of labor
• Established The House of Burgesses
(1619) to give settlers a voice in
their governance
4. Jamestown grew into the
colony of Virginia and
established the pattern for
the southern colonies
5. New England Colonies
• Founded as a haven for religious
groups persecuted in England
• The Separatists (Pilgrims) landed at
Plymouth after signing the
Mayflower Compact in 1620
• Natives taught them how to plant
corn and sustain themselves early on
• The Puritans landed in
Massachusetts Bay in the
1630’s
6. New England Colonies
• Puritans made their own
stock company and came to
the New World with their
own charter
– “American idea that the
– people form the government”
– Democratic form of government:
• Town meetings
• General assembly
• Male church members could vote
• Set up trade using the wood from the surrounding
forest
7. New England Colonies
• Established schools to teach
children how to read the Bible
• Established religious
conformity
• Dissenters (those who did not
conform to the societal
standard) were sent to other
parts of the region
• Large families helped the quick
spread of their religion,
democratic government, and
trade
8. Middle Colonies
• Made up of a variety of Europeans
– Dutch who first settled in New York
– Swedes who first settled in Delaware
– English Puritans moved to middles
colonies
– And the Quakers settled in
Pennsylvania.
• The Quakers were:
– Religious dissenters; believed we all
had an inner light
– Promoted religious tolerance
– Wanted good relationships with the
natives which helped to attract other
groups to the colony
9. Middle Colonies
• Greatest diversity of people and religions in
British North America
• William Penn was granted land here by King
Charles II as repayment of a family debt
• Penn had the rights of a proprietor and
could name the governor of the colony
• Economic prosperity was due to the fertile
fields and good location to harbors
• Became known as the “breadbasket” of the
colonies
10. South Carolina Colony
Was founded as a proprietary colony when King
Charles II granted land to the eight Lords Proprietors
as repayment f debts incurred in reclaiming the
throne, just like Penn in Pennsylvania.
11. South Carolina Colony
• The Proprietors hoped to make a profit by
charging settlers a quitrent (rent) on the land
• They commissioned John Locke to write the
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
• Includes policies for:
– Religious toleration to attract settlers
– Created a social class system based on titles for
large landholders
– Headright System granted large tracts of land
• This system lead to the formation of large Plantations
based on cash crops
• This made SC a distinctly southern colony
12. Making the SC Colony
Who were the first settlers?
Englishmen who emigrated from the
British colony of Barbados and
brought a well-developed slave
system with them
13. Making the SC Colony
What made Plantation owners so wealthy?
The use of slavery allowed
Plantation owners to make huge
profits
14. Making the SC Colony
What else helped these Plantations
thrive other than slaver labor?
SC’s natural resources- fertile land,
mild climate, and many waterways
used in irrigation and trade
15. Making the SC Colony
This wealth attracted other settlers
from:
France, Switzerland, Germany,
Scotland and Ireland
16. Making the SC Colony
What else attracted settlers to SC?
The Fundamental Constitutions of
Carolina assured religious choice
ie: French Huguenots & Jewish
settlers
17. Early SC Government
• Lord Proprietors controlled the
government through a Governor and
Grand Council
• They acted as representatives for the
– Proprietors,
– elite,
– and a much smaller representation of
the common people of the colony
– *small degree of democracy from the
beginning, like other colonies
