Early Colonial Life | Conversations on SC History - Episode 4

Noted South Carolina historian Dr. Walter Edgar discusses the key issues in SC History.

Early Colonial Life is discussed in three lessons:

1. English Speaking Settlers of SC
2. Why do we have a North and South Carolina?
3. Life in South Carolina

Standards

• 4.1.CO Compare the interactions among cultural groups as a result of European colonization.
• 4.1.P Explain the development of political institutions and social characteristics that defined the British colonial regions.
• 4.1.CX Contextualize the experience of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in South Carolina.
• 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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