3rd Grade Social Studies
Unit 2 Take Home Study Guide
- The Cherokee lived in the mountain areas in South Carolina.
- The Catawba lived in the Piedmont Region.
- The Catawba were the largest group to settle in the eastern part of South Carolina.
- The role of the Cherokee Council was to make laws and decisions for the community.
- Both the Cherokee and the Catawba met their needs by fishing, hunting, and farming.
- A result of the Yemassee War forced the Yemassee to move south of the Savannah River.
- As Europeans continued to move onto the territories or hunting grounds of the Native Americans, conflicts occurred over land usage.
- Spanish, French, and English explorers came to South Carolina in the hopes of claiming land and finding riches.
- Hernando de Soto and his men marched across Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina because they were searching for gold. They had heard that gold could be found in this region.
- Jean Ribault built Charlesfort near Port Royal.
- Henry Woodward tried to establish friendly relations with the Native Americans and learn how to live on the land.
- Native Americans contributed to the economy of the English colony because the deerskin they traded was the colony’s main export.
- Juan Pardo led the first group of Europeans into the Up Country of South Carolina in the hopes of finding food.
- William Hilton sailed from Barbados to Port Royal. The Hilton Head Islands are named after him.
- The Lord proprietors helped start a successful settlement in South Carolina because they offered settlers land, religious freedom, and voting rights.
- Slavery was brought to South Carolina from plantations in the West Indies.
- Plantation owners used slavery because they needed many workers.
- Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney was the first person to grow and sell an indigo crop in the colony.
- About 75 people were killed in the Stono Rebellion.
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