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1 day ago · Southern Colonies: Consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, the Southern Colonies had a warm climate and rich soil, perfect for large-scale plantations. The economy was heavily reliant on the cultivation of cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo, which required a large labor force.
3 days ago · The first South Carolina State House was completed in 1790, and by 1805 the town was incorporated. There are few sites connected to the Revolutionary War to explore in South Carolina’s Capital City Region. But it’s worth a weekend visit to explore the gleaming capital, visit the South Carolina State Museum, and learn about a local legend.
1 day ago · Along with North Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast. South Carolina is the 40th-largest and 23rd-most populous U.S. state with a recorded population of 5,118,425 according to the 2020 census. [2] In 2019, its GDP was $213.45 billion. South Carolina is composed of 46 counties.
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3 days ago · Devoted to plantation agriculture that depended on enslaved labor, South Carolina became a slave society: it had a majority-Black population from the colonial period until after the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when many rural Blacks moved to northern and midwestern industrial cities to escape Jim Crow laws.
20 hours ago · The Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: the New England Colonies ( New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut ); the Middle Colonies ( New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware ); and the Southern Colonies ( Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia ). [2]
4 days ago · The First Shots of the Civil War Were Fired in Columbia, South Carolina. On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This historic event marked the beginning of the bloodiest conflict in American history, and it all started in South Carolina.
3 days ago · In 2022, the South Carolina Battlefield Preservation Trust unveiled Fort Fair Lawn – one of only two extant Revolutionary War redoubts in South Carolina. Visitors park at Old Santee Canal Park and hike 1.1 miles along a crushed gravel trail to the fort’s forested location. Fort Fair Lawn is more preserved than restored.
