Charles Town | Palmetto Special

A dramatic sequence is included in this wraparound. It is an analogy to the eight Lords Proprietors receiving the grant of Carolina from King Charles II. Five people gather for lunch to discuss a mutual parcel of land that they have received in a will. They explore various possibilities of turning a profit from the inheritance.

This Palmetto Episode traveled along Highway 261 in Sumter County-destination Charleston. The grant of land to the Lords Proprietors is discussed and students identify the Proprietors at locations named for them. The students are located in:

1. Berkeley County (John Lord Berkeley) (Sir William Berkeley)
2. Clarendon County (The Earl of Clarendon)
3. Colleton County (Sir John Colleton)
4. The Ashley and-Cooper Rivers (Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper)
5. Albemarle-Point (George Monck, Duke of Albemarle)

Standards

• 4.1.CE Identify the effects of changing economic systems on the diverse populations in British North America.
• 4.1.P Explain the development of political institutions and social characteristics that defined the British colonial regions.
• 4.1.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of British North America and South Carolina.
• 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
• This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the three British colonial regions developed in terms of their culture, economies, geography, and labor. The indicator was also developed to encourage inquiry into the unique story of the development of South Carolina.
• 8.1.CE Analyze the factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the geographic and human factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system. This indicator was also written to encourage inquiry into South Carolina’s distinct social and economic system as influenced by British Barbados.
• 8.1.CX Contextualize the development of South Carolina’s political institutions during the colonization of British North America.
• This indicator was designed to encourage inquiry into the development of the political structure of the South Carolina colony from the development of Charles Towne under English control to the movement toward self-rule.

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