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14 Cards in this Set
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Grand council |
Made up of 3 groups The representatives of the Proprietors Colonial elite freeman |
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In South Carolina |
representation for the low country was greater than the backcountry |
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royal colony |
King appointed the governor (replaced the joints stock companies right to appoint) |
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Carolina became a royal colony |
Colonists felt ignored and treated unfairly by proprietors who collected rent but offered little protection. So the council protested to king. |
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King and Parliement |
Mostly left colonies alone to control their own local government |
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economic advantages of being a royal colony |
1. increased subsidies for naval stores 2. allowed to sell rice directly to foreign countries
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migration |
royal governor established townships in the back country to encourage this |
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backcountry |
first white settlers traders and woodsmen and viewed as uncivilized by the Low country elite |
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Low country |
1st area settled in Carolina along Atlantic coast surrounding Charleston and the home of plantation owners who grew rich from rice and indigo. |
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Backcountry population started to outnumber that of the Low Country |
settlers moved inland and Scotch Irish and Germans from PA moved south |
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Problems in backcountry |
less representation in the assembly but paid taxes no law enforcement took "regulation" of society into their own hands |
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Regulator movement |
no courts, Regulators operated as vigilantes and lawless. "guilty" hanged or beaten without a trial violating their rights as Englishmen |
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seven circuit courthouses |
government of South Carolina set these up to aid the backcountry settlers to provide justice, law and order
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Uneven representation in General Assembly |
caused tension between Low country and Backcountry settlers |
