1. Economy of the Carolina Colony
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2. Settlers in Carolina were to make a profit for England who believed their power was associated with wealth (mercantilism).
Lords Proprietors expected to make money from renting land.
Colonists could not pay rent without making money-no crop was successful for 20 YEARS!!!
Had to make money other ways

3. Cattle Industry
Raised cattle to provide beef for sugar producing countries in the Caribbean
African slaves were experience in raising cattle
Forestry
Produced naval stores for ships: pitch and tar that made ships watertight
Produced timbers for house shingles, barrels, buckets, and furniture
Trade with Indians
Obtained deerskins needed for clothes

4. Rice cultivation
Staple crop
Known as “Carolina Gold”
Could be grown easily along the shoreline of the colony because of the natural environment

7. Slave Trade
Bought and sold Africans and Native Americans into slavery
Usually brought into Sullivan’s Island and sold in Charles Town
Slaves worked on plantations making it very profitable for planters
Plantation and slavery system first introduced by the Barbadians

9. Indigo Planting
Brought to South Carolina by Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Her father sent her seeds from Antigua
She worked for three years to cultivate a strain of indigo that would produce blue dye
Trade with Barbados
Slave trade
Importing/Exporting (In general)
Because of proximity to coastline, it made it easy to get supplies from Great Britain and ship products to other countries