South Carolina History

The Stono Rebellion was a slave rebellion in South Carolina on September 9. 1739. It was the largest slave rebellion prior to the American Revolution.

A war fought primarily against British Colonies in North America and the French with their native allies.

A conflict between British forces and the Cherokee in the French and I Dian war in North America

An act that put a three cent tax that was put on foreign sugar and increased taxes on other simmiliar commodities. It also banned French wine and other French commodities.

It was a North and South uprising against corrupt British officials. It was unsuccessful.

It was a group of American Patriots that came from pre revolution and was responsible for the Boston Tea party.

Was a direct tax in which printed paper in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London carrying a re ensue stamp.

The Tea act was made to help the India Trading company
Who had financial problems and ad 18 million pounds of unsold tea. The town shed acts were still in place so it lead to the piston tea party in late 1773.

It was a war between Great Britain and the newly created American states and grew into a larger conflict in which France, Spain, and the Netherlands interviened.

It was a declaration of war against Great Britain by the continental congress and ratified on July the fourth of 1776.

The provincional congress of South Carolina approves a new constitution and government four months before the Declaration of Independence by the continental congress.

A major battle won by the British in South Carolina in the Revolutionary war.

The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between loyalist and patriot militias in which the patriots defeated the loyalists.

The articles of confederation served as the constitution before it was replaced by the U.S. constitution in 1789.

The battle of cow pens was a decisive battle in which continental forces defeated British forces and was a turning point of the southern theatre in the Revolutionary War.

The battle of Eutaw Springs was the last major battle in the Southern theatre of the Revolutionary war.

An agreement between northern and southern states to make three fifths of the slave population be counted as representation.

The commerce compromise was an agreement between northern and southern states on how the federal government can only tax its commerce. Which made the federal government only tax its imports.

The Great compromise was an agreement between the delegates in the United States Constitutional Convention. It created two houses, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, the House of Representatives is based on population and elected by the people, and the other house elects two senators per state being appointed by state legislatures.

The US Constitution is the basis of government that replaced the articles of confederation. It was written at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 and ratified by eleven states making its way into full effect on March 4, 1789.

A cotton gin is a machine that separates seeds from cotton.

The Embargo Act was an embargo created by congress, against both Britain and France during the Napoleonic wars.

A war between the empire of Great Britain and the United States of America. The conflict was started between tensions of the two superpowers such as Britain having trade restrictions, imprisonment of US seamen to the royal navy, and support for Native Americans who were hostile to the US.

A famous Union general in the civil war who commenced total war against the south.

Denmark Vesey had a plot to take the city of Charelston and become free with his newly freed blacks because of liberation killing of slave owners.

We're laws in each state defining what power the masters had over slaves and punishments for slaves.

The Abolishionist movement planned to emancipate all slaves and make them equal to whites.

Declared that the feral tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and South Carolina refused the tariffs on items.

A former slave, who escaped o. A confederate ship to the union ship making him free.

Created the territories Kansa and Nebraska and determined if there was to be slavery through popular sovernty.

It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the us territories.

In the election of 1860 Abraham Licoln was elected. Shortly after the civil war started.

Someoneone who wanted to not be a art of the Union anymore.

The war between the USA and the CSA.

The creation of the confederate states of America was in response to the election of Licoln.

Confederates demanded the union surrender the fort they refused starting the civil war.

An amphibious battle early in the civil war where the US took port Royal.

The CSA withholding cotton to Europeans In hope of foreign intervention.

When a nation uses all its resources to fight another nation. One slouch example is William T. Sherman.

Lincoln assassinated by John Wilks booths in fords theater.