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The first people migrated to the area now known as South Carolina around 13,000 years ago. By the time the first British colony was established in the 17th century, more than 29 groups of Native Americans lived in the area, the largest being the Cherokee and Catawba, as well as the Chickasaw, Creek (Muskogean), Congaree, Pee Dee, Shawnee, Waccamaw,...
Spanish explorer Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón visited South Carolina in the 16th century, while French explorer Jean Ribault established and subsequently abandoned the first European settlement in Charlesfort (modern-day Parris Island) in 1562. The Spanish erected their own settlement at Parris Island in 1566 they called Santa Elena, which served as the...
Enslaved Africans were first brought to South Carolina by the Spanish in the 16th century. In the 18th century, French and British settlers, especially those from the British colony of Barbados, built plantations throughout South Carolina to grow rice and indigo. By the time of the American Revolution, slave labor made South Carolina the wealthiest...
Among the 13 original colonies to sign the Declaration of Independence, South Carolina was grounds for more battles during the Revolutionary War—over 200 in total—than any other state. One of the first battles of the war took place in 1776 at Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, resulting in British defeat. In May 1780, the patriots suffered their wo...
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. South Carolina legislators had been threatening succession since the 1820s to protect states’ rights and the practice of slavery. They lacked popular support until the 1860 election of President Abraham Lincoln, whom many southerners feared would outlaw slavery. T...
Many freed former African American slaves remained near their homelands after the Civil War, settling in South Carolina as well as Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. Even though they were often geographically isolated, they maintained their African heritage. Known as the Gullah or Geechee, they developed their own strong culture, including the on...
WATCH: Plessy v. Ferguson As with other southern states, the 1896 Supreme Court decision of “separate but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson led to Jim Crow laws and segregation in South Carolina. The turn of the 20th century saw a resurgence in the KKK. From the 1910s and 1920s until the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of African Americans fled South Carol...
Various groups have immigrated to South Carolina throughout its history. In the 1700s, most immigrants were French, German, Swiss and Scots-Irish, including religious and political refugees. In the 1840s and 1850s, South Carolinians protested when a wave of poor Germans and Irish arrived in the state, but their place in society was cemented thanks ...
After struggling to recover during Reconstruction, South Carolina’s economy grew stronger in the early 20th century thanks to the textile and manufacturing industries. Tourism has become a major industry in the 21st century as visitors explore South Carolina's beaches, mountains and historical centers in Charleston, Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head Isl...
On November 2, 1954, former Governor Strom Thurmond became the first person to be elected to the U.S. Senate as a write-in candidate, winning 63 percent of the vote. Thurmond served the state of So...In 2000, the Confederate flag was removed from the dome on top of the State House and placed on the grounds near the Confederate Soldier Monument in response to an NAACP boycott of the state and pr...The only commercial tea plantation in the contiguous 48 states is on Wadmalaw Island, near Charleston, South Carolina.The palmetto tree has been an important icon of South Carolina since the American Revolutionary War. When the British attacked a fort on Sullivan’s Island near Charleston, the cannonballs bounced o...- 2 min
May 21, 2021 · The South Carolina Colony was founded by the British in 1663 and was one of the 13 original colonies. It was founded by eight nobles with a Royal Charter from King Charles II and was part of the group of Southern Colonies, along with North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland. South Carolina became one of the wealthiest early colonies ...
Nov 16, 2020 · As many Americans today have come to know, the laid-back atmosphere in the southern states is a way of life. It has its roots in the colonial era and how people naturally reacted to influences of British culture and the sub-tropical climate. Mosquito-born disease was far more likely to take lives in the southern colonies than in the north ...
A Woman’s Progress in Early South Carolina, Part 1. Friday, April 07, 2017 Nic Butler, Ph.D. This week we’re traveling back in Lowcountry history to talk about women. Every March we celebrate women’s history month, and in the past I’ve presented some programs on various aspects of this topic around the community.
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They founded the settlement of Charlestown, North Carolina. Within two years there were 271 men and 69 women in that settlement. The harbor in Charleston gave this colony a natural business advantage. As a result, the Carolina settlement was able to promptly begin trade with the West Indies. The population growth of the Carolina colony was slow.
Jan 23, 2013 · The basic treatment in colonial times was to bleed, sweat or purge the malady from the body. Disease just ran its courses and hopefully one survived. Such was the case with George Washington and his bout with smallpox. Incredibility, the life expectancy in the colonial South was better than in most of the world in the eighteenth century.
