Georgetown | Pee Dee Explorer

Learn the history of Georgetown, South Carolina as well as the booming rice culture supported by slavery.

Standards

• 8-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
  • 8-1.0 The human mosaic of the South Carolina colony was composed of indigenous, immigrant, and enslaved populations. To understand how these differing backgrounds melded into an entirely new and different culture, the student will utilize the knowledge...
    • 8-1.3 Summarize the history of English settlement in New England, the mid-Atlantic region, and the South, with an emphasis on South Carolina as an example of a distinctly southern colony.
• 8.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the development of South Carolina during the settlement and colonization of North America in the period of 1500 1756.
  • 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
  • 8.1.P Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony.