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SC Colonization & Trade: Unit 1 Review

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Sharpen your Unit 1 recall on South Carolina’s Native peoples, colonial regions, European motives, mercantilism, and push/pull factors with crisp, classroom-ready clues. This is a Middle School History / Social Studies review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Colonial Regions, Native Peoples of SC, European Motives, Trade & Mercantilism, Push/Pull & Sources.

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  • Colonial Regions

    Families seeking a religious and moral example settled here to model their beliefs.

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    New England

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  • Native Peoples of SC

    This Eastern Woodland group in South Carolina was especially known for pottery craftsmanship.

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    Catawba

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  • European Motives

    Spanish, French, and English explorers shared this broad goal for their mother countries.

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    Wealth and resources

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  • Trade & Mercantilism

    Under mercantilism, colonies supplied these to Britain and bought finished goods in return.

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    Raw materials

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  • Push/Pull & Sources

    War, disease, or persecution that causes people to leave a place is this type of factor.

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    Push factor

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Colonial Regions

$100 — Families seeking a religious and moral example settled here to model their beliefs.
New England
$200 — This physical feature helped limit large tobacco plantations in New England.
Rocky soil
$300 — This region built wealth on tobacco, rice, and indigo cash crops.
Southern Colonies
$400 — Across the colonies, climate, soil, and resources directed jobs, crops, trade, and settlement patterns.
Geography shaped economies
$500 — Southern agricultural profits grew thanks to this combination of soil and season.
Fertile soil, long season

Native Peoples of SC

$100 — This Eastern Woodland group in South Carolina was especially known for pottery craftsmanship.
Catawba
$200 — Living near the coast, this group used clams and oysters as a food source.
Yemassee
$300 — For many Native groups, rivers supported survival and connection in these three ways.
Food, travel, trade
$400 — The Cherokee adjusted homes, clothing, and daily work with changing seasons.
Seasonal adaptations
$500 — After contact, hunting patterns shifted due to this driver from across the Atlantic.
European demand

European Motives

$100 — Spanish, French, and English explorers shared this broad goal for their mother countries.
Wealth and resources
$200 — This European power is closely linked with Catholic missions in the Southeast.
Spanish
$300 — This group emphasized trade and alliances with Native peoples in the interior.
French
$400 — In South Carolina, this group tied itself to permanent settlements and plantation agriculture.
English
$500 — Claiming land promised resources, trade, wealth, and this for the mother country.
Mother country power

Trade & Mercantilism

$100 — Under mercantilism, colonies supplied these to Britain and bought finished goods in return.
Raw materials
$200 — In a mercantilist system, this side gains the greatest benefit.
The mother country
$300 — Europeans in early South Carolina most sought this Native-produced trade item.
Deerskins
$400 — A flow of raw materials to Britain and finished goods back to colonies illustrates this system.
Mercantilism
$500 — Britain favored colonial commerce mainly with Britain to keep wealth at home through this.
Controlled trade

Push/Pull & Sources

$100 — War, disease, or persecution that causes people to leave a place is this type of factor.
Push factor
$200 — Free land, jobs, and economic opportunity draw migrants through this type of factor.
Pull factor
$300 — Escaping this deadly disease spurred migration in Europe.
Bubonic Plague
$400 — Offering land to settlers, this system acted as a strong incentive to move.
Headright System
$500 — A journal written by a settler during colonization is classified as this.
Primary source

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