 8-1.3: Summarize the history of English settlement in New England, the Mid- Atlantic, and the South, with an emphasis on South Carolina as an example of a distinctly

 South Carolina was founded as a proprietary colony when the king (Charles II) granted land to the eight Lords Proprietors in payment of debt  Ex: Pennsylvania  The proprietors hoped to make a profit by charging settlers a quitrent on the land.  The proprietors commissioned John Locke to write the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

 A document that included policies, such as religious toleration design that attract settlers  The fundamental constitution included provisions for establishing a social class system based on the granting of titles to large land holders  Intended to make Carolina a society based on deference to the elites

 In order to encourage immigration, the proprietors granted large tracts of land to settlers through the headright system, just as in VA  The headright system led to the establishment of large plantations based on cash crops that made South Carolina a distinctly southern colony  Ex: Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia

 The first SC settlers were Englishmen who emigrated from the British colony of Barbados and brought a well-developed slave system with them.  Slavery made the plantation owners very wealthy  Other settlers attracted to the prosperous Carolina colony came from France, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland and Ireland

 Assured of religious choices by the Fundamental Constitution settlers came from diverse religious backgrounds

Fertile land Mild climate Many waterways

 The Lords Proprietor controlled the government through a governor and grand council which included, representatives of the Proprietors the Carolina Elite, and a smaller representation of the common people of the colony  The Carolina colony had some degree of democracy from the beginning