United States history

A royal colony is another name foe a proprietary colony

The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that commenced on September 9,1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. In 1756, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict.

an act passed by the British Parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents; opposition by the Colonies resulted in the repeal of the act in 1766

The war was a conflict between British forces in North America and Cherokee Indian tribes during the French and Indian War. The British and the Cherokee had been allies at the start of the war, but each party had suspected the other of betrayals. Tensions between British-American settlers and the Cherokee increased during the 1750s, culminating in open hostilities in 1758.

Rice was grown successfully in South Carolina as early as 1680. By the early 18th century, with the slave system established on a large scale, rice became a major export crop of the region.

On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire.

The Sons of Liberty was a group of American patriots. They formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight the taxes of the British against the Americans. .

The Declaration of Independence announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, were declaring themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

The War of the Regulation (or the Regulator Movement) was a North and South Carolina uprising, lasting from about 1765 to 1771, in which citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials.

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a agreement between Southern and Northern states that said three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for the purpose of taxes and representation in the government.

The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.

The war that made America free from the British.

The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

The first change of the South Carolina Constitution

The first change of the South Carolina Constitution

The Battle of Camden was a major British victory in the Revolutionary War.

The Battle of King's Mountain was a decisive Patriot victory

The Battle of Cowpens was a Decisive American victory

The Battle of Eutaw Springs was the last battle of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas.

The Commerce Compromise is when The Constitution allows the federal government to tax imports but not exports.

A bicameral system of the House and Senate.

A plan created by Vesey where slaves were going to revolt against their masters, but word got out about it and it failed. Vesey and other people involved in the plot were hung.

A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
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The Embargo Act of 1807 was a law by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.

The War of 1812 lasted 32 months and was between the Americans and the British.

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States.[

The Nullification Crisis arose in the early 1830s when leaders of South Carolina advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law.

The abolitionist movement was marked by efforts of all sorts. Newspapers, poetry, and books were produced. In the North, abolitionist literature became so popular and influential that a gag rule was eventually established to ban such material.

Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, and sailing it to freedom beyond the Federal blockade.

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott, a slave who maintained he had been emancipated as a result of having lived with his master in the free state of Illinois and in federal territory where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise.

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 ) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

The election of 1860 included the following candidates: Abraham Lincoln John Bell John Breckenrige Stephen Douglas
The election of 1860 was mostly over the controversial issue of slavery. Abraham Lincoln won a bitter election

The American Civil War, also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming), was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that had declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South").

The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy, was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by a number of Southern slave states that had declared their secession from the United States.

Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.

is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity. Threats of secession can also be a strategy for achieving more limited goals.

Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.

The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday,[1] April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close.

Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete mobilization of fully available resources and population.