1. SC’s Natural, Human,
& Political Resources
8-1.5: Explain how SC used
their natural, human, and
political resources uniquely to
gain economic prosperity,
including settlement by and
trade with people fo Barbados,
rice and indigo planting, and
the practice of mercantilism

2. SC’s Natural Resources
• Deer for hunting & its skin
• Pine forest for timber
• Fertile land
• Mild climate
• Long growing season
• Geographic conditions in the
Low county made it suitable
for growing rice

3. SC’s Natural Resources
The port at Charleston and navigable waterways along
the coast and into the interior made shipping goods to
market possible

4. Resources & Trade
• Initial trade for deerskins and furs happened with
the natives for beads, trinkets, guns, and alcohol
When Native Americans were forced into slavery this
trade ended
• SC sold cattle and Native American slaves to the
colony n Barbados
• SC pine trees were the source of pitch and tar for
British naval stores to make ships waterproof

5. Resources & Trade
• African slaves brought their agricultural knowledge
with them to the New World
• Rice became known as “Carolina Gold”, a staple
cop and the source of long-term prosperity
• Eliza Lucas planted indigo to help her family
plantations flourish
– Plant was used to make a highly valued blue dye
– Resulted in the British government offering a subsidy as
an incentive to anyone who would grow it
• Eliza shared her success with other planters, making
indigo a new cash crop for SC

6. POLITICAL FACTORS
•Mercantilist policies
•SC served as both a source of raw materials and a
market for the British manufactured goods
•Lessened Britain's dependency of foreign trade
•Improved the balance between exports & imports in
Britain
•Britain offered subsidies (or bounties) to planter who
grew cash crops
•Britain made an ‘enumerated’product list = secure
market for SC
•Carolina rice, however, was available for trade with
anyone
•The British were very laxed with their enforcement of
mercantilism allowing free development of SC economoies

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