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1526 - 1527
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San Miguel de Gualdape was the first European settlement inside what is now United States territory, founded by Spaniard Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in 1526. it was to last only three months of winter before being abandoned in early 1527
1540
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South Carolina is one of the 13 original colonies of the United States. European exploration began in 1540, but the explorers brought European diseases that decimated the local Indian population
1607 - 1733
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The Thirteen Colonies were some of the colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 and 1733 by a variety of interests from England and later Great Britain. They are best known as the founding political entities of the United States of America.
1624
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a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
1680
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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.
1739
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The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion that commenced on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
1754 - 1763
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The French and Indian War is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War.
1758 - 1761
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The Anglo-Cherokee War from 1758 to 1761, sometimes known as the "First Cherokee War"
1764
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The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764
1765
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The Stamp Act 1765 imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
1767 - 1822
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Denmark Vesey originally Telemaque,was an African-Caribbean who was most famous for planning a slave rebellion in the United States.
1773
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The Sons of Liberty was a group consisting of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies.
1776
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The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, 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.
1776
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The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies
1776
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The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies.
1780
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The Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War American War of Independence.
1781
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The Battle of Cowpens was a decisive victory by Continental army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan,
1781
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In early 1781 Major General Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army began a campaign to end British control over the South Carolina backcountry.
1781
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In early 1781 Major General Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army began a campaign to end British control over the South Carolina backcountry
1787
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
1794
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is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds
1807
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The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress [1] against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars
1812
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The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their allies which resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence
1812 - 1815
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In the war of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, the cause was the restriction of the U.S. trade
1820 - 1891
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He was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the Civil War
1830
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Movement to end slavery and free the blacks
1830
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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 aw and could in effect, “nullify” the law
1839 - 1915
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He was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship’s pilot, sea captain, and politician.
1839 - 1915
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He was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship’s pilot, sea captain, and politician.
1847
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Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom. His trial eventually got to the Supreme Court, and they ruled that slaves are not U.S. citizens, so they cannot sue
1847
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Dred Scott went to trial to sue for his freedom. His trial eventually got to the Supreme Court, and they ruled that slaves are not U.S. citizens, so they cannot sue
1854
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Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
1860
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The withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union in 1860-1861, precipitating the U.S. Civil War.
1861
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The creation of the confederate states of America was in response to the election of Licoln.
1861
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Confederates demanded the union surrender the fort they refused starting the civil war.
1882
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Slaves were going to revolt against their masters but word got out and it failed
01/11/13
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.The Eastern Woodland Indian were made up of many tribes. The most known of these tribes were the Powhatan, Mohawks, Iroqoius, and the Susquehanna.
01/16/13
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This type of colonial government, based on the County Palatine and resembling feudal grants of fiefs in exchange for service more than the modern concept of state sovereignty, was used by England’s colonization along the Atlantic coasts of North America and the Caribbean.
01/16/13
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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.
02-01-13
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation
02-01-13
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A plantation economy is an economy which is based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations.