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1715 - Economic Beginnings

Trading becomes more important as natives and settlers learn to live together. Indians are expert hunters, and offer animal furs or skins, along with the pottery they make. Settlers bring metal tools and fine cloth to trade. But fighting breaks out when some Catawba and Yamassee Indians think they are treated unfairly by the settlers.

Exhibit & Section: 
History Timeline [1]
Proprietary Colony 1663-1729 [2]
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70
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Event Date Field: 
Tuesday, January 1, 1715
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