1. The government What does the government do for us?
Brainstorm a list of things that the government does for us as a society.

2. Government Themes Which category does each of your ideas fall into?
Maintains Social Order
Provides Public Services
Provides National Security
Manages Conflict
Establishes and Administers Justice
Talk about it with your partner and write next to each what which category each one falls under.

3. Government
How would you feel if the government didn’t fulfill its promises to its people?
How might you react?

4. SC: Proprietary to Royal Colony
Indicator 8.1-6

5. I. Proprietary Colony
SC was first a proprietary colony: a colony controlled/ owned by the Lords Proprietors

6. I. Proprietary Colony
The Lord Proprietors attracted settlers by giving power to the property owners.
This created a “political elite” = plantation owners in charge of SC’s government
Drayton Hall- Plantation on the Ashley River in Charleston
John Drayton- plantation owner and governor

7. II. Legislative Assembly
A legislative assembly was created to make laws.
It was bicameral = two parts
The two parts of the assembly:
The upper house-the Proprietors and the elite who had the most power. Therefore, most laws protected them (ex: tax laws).
The lower house, the Commons House of Assembly, was to represent the common people. This meant, the common people had representation, just not as much.
The elite had more power.
Common people had little representation

8. Population of SC Common
Although a small percentage of the population is made of the elite, they had more power in the government because the elected officials were members of the elite and they were the people who could vote.
Common

9. II. Legislative Assembly
To be a voter: free, Christian, male, 21 yrs, owned fifty acres of land, lived in SC for 1 year
To be elected: be a voter, own five hundred acres and 10 slaves (or other property worth $25,000).
About 1/2 of the representatives owned at least 60 slaves.
Also, about 2/3 were planters.
So who had the voice in SC decisions?

10. The end of the proprietary colony

11. III. Journey to A Royal Colony
By 1700, nearly all the colonies had been taken over by the King. Why?
The King wanted money from the colonies and he wanted to keep control of them.
South Carolina was different- SC’s Assembly asked the king to take over.
King James II

12. III. Journey to a Royal Colony
The colonists felt like the Proprietors were absentee landlords, they never visited, and only cared about collecting taxes.
The Proprietors felt that colonists were disobedient and that they weren’t making a profit.

13. IIi. Journey to royal Colony
As a result, the King paid the Proprietors for the colony and it later became North and South Carolina. Both colonies became royal colonies: colonies ruled directly by the King

14. Iv. Royal Colony Government
The King picked the governor rather than the proprietors or the elite.
The power of the governor was controlled by the Legislative Assembly (made up by settlers). They controlled the taxes the paid the governor.
SC was left alone to govern itself.
Sir Francis Nicholson- First Royal Governor of SC.

15. Iv. Royal Colony Economic Advantages:
Increased subsidies for naval stores
Merchants could sell rice directly to foreign countries
English government created more towns in the upstate (backcountry) to encourage migration. Why did most people live along the coast?
It was more dangerous in the upstate, it was harder to get supplies, and there weren’t successful crops like in the Lowcountry.

16. Iv. LowCountry vs. Backcountry
By the coast
rich plantation owners
The “elite” of the state
More slaves
Controlled the government

17. Backcountry Backcountry “uncivilized” traders and woodsmen More whites
Less representation in government
Backcountry

18. Bellwork Why did SC want to become a royal colony?
Why did the King want SC to become a royal colony?
Who controlled SC’s government?

19. IV. Regulator Movement
The Back Country did not have any law enforcement or court system so they “self-regulated” the law.
Regulators = vigilantes who would capture and punish criminals
This movement to provide law and order turned lawless. The “guilty” were hanged or beaten to death without a trial. This violated their rights as Englishmen.

20. IV. Regulator Movement
The government eventually decided to help and set up 7 courthouses around the colony to provide justice, law, and order.
But, the Lowcountry still had all the political power and the tensions between the backcountry and lowcountry continued to grow.
Why did the lowcountry still have all of the political power?
The capital is at Charleston, where all the elite plantation owners live and can still control the government.

21. The Regulator Movement pages 65-66
What are some of the problems in the Backcountry?
What did the citizens do to solve the problem?
How did the colony try to fix the problem?
What issue still remained?