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1000 - 1400
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The Eastern Woodland Indians were Native Americans that lived in the South Eastern portion of the United States before the Europeans came.
1500
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Cotton is bought and sold by investors on 2 different stock exchanges in the United States of America. While 80 countries from around the globe produce cotton, the United States, China, and India together provide two-thirds of the world's cotton
1500 - 1700
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Mercantilism is an important foreign trade it demands a balance of trade earning the difference in value between imports and exports.
1500 - 1800
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The triangle slave trade was a trade from Africa to the U.S to Europe. The slaves came over to america in small ships and were tightly packed. They slaves picked crops that were sent to Europe.
1526 - 1527
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San Miguel de Gualdpe was the first European settlement founded by spaniard Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. When he died a year later war broke out as to who would be the new leader. During the fighting the slaves revolted and escaped to a Native American village.
1600
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It's when a colony in another part of the world is still ruled by the mother country. Like the 13 colonies and England.
1607 - 1733
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Europeans came over from Britain to start a new life with religious freedom. They explored the new world and made the first settlements which were son to become America.
1663 - 1729
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It's a colony to a proprietor to govern
1698 - 1770
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Rice and Indigo were rich crops that were grown in South Carolina and traded between colonies in Europe.
1700 - 1940
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In the 17th century Europeans began to establish settlements in America. The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership became known as the plantation system.
1705 - 1865
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Slave codes were laws in each US state, that stated the slaves rights from their masters. These codes gave slave owners total power over the African slaves.
1715 - 1717
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It was a conflict between the European settlers and the yemassee Indian tribe.
1739
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The Stono rebellion was a slave rebellion in South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the colony's before the American Revolution. They recruited 65 slaves and killed 25 whites. They were caught by the South Carolina militia. 30 slaves escaped.
1754 - 1763
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The war was fought between the British colonies and New France, and both of their military units was supported by their mothers countries Great Britain and France.
1758 - 1761
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This war war between the Americans and the Cherokee Indians when they though that they were betraying each other.
1763 - 1776
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This act was an increase of tax in the colonies. They were very upset and was one of th causes of the American revolution.
1765 - 1771
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North and South Carolina uprising, in which citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials.
1765
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a group of American patriots that started in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was created to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to protest against the taxes by the British government
1765 - 1766
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The stamp act was a tax by the British Parliament on the colonies, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
1773
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Great Britain was in a lot of debt and they had a surplus of tea so they started overpricing the price of tea to get out of their debt
1775 - 1783
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The war between the American colonists and Britain over the colonists freedom from them.
1776 - 1781
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The Articles of Confederation was agreement between the 13 founding states that established the United States of America a monarchy and was the first constitution.
1776
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It was the declaration the colonists sent to Britain declaring their freedom.
March 19, 1778
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The South Carolina Constitution of 1778 is rules and regulations for the state of South Carolina.
August 16 1780
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Was a major victory for the British even though the Americans outnumbered them 2 to 1.
October 7, 1780
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The Battle of KIngs Mountian was a battle between the Patrots and the Loyalists in the American Rovolutionary war.It took place on KIngs Mountian, NC. The Patriats suprisingly won.
January 17, 1781
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The Battle of Cowpems was during the American Revolutionary war. It became known as the turning point of the war in the South.
September 8, 1781
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The battle of Eutaw Springs was a battle in the American Revolutionary War. Captain John Coffin lead the Loyalists and General Nathanael Greene led the south.
1787
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The 3/5 Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states that sated that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person in terms of both taxation and representation.
1787
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The Commerce Compromise is when The Constitution allows the federal government to tax imports but not exports.
1787 - 1800
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The Great Compromise was in Connecticut and was when delegates from the Constitutional Convention came from different backgrounds and held different political views. A two-house legislature plan worked for all states and they all agreed on it.
September 17, 1787
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The Constitution of the United States is a document that replaced the Articles of Confederation. It is the U.S's supreme laws.
1793
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton from the seed. BEfore the invention, slaves did it by hand all day in the fields. This was invented by Eli Whitney.
1807 - 1809
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The Embargo Act was when the United States stopped trade withGreat Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars.
1812 - 1815
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The War of 1812 was a war between the US and Great Britain the war started because of British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen, and America wanting to expand its territory. During this war, the nations capital, Washington, D.C. got burned down. The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent ended the war.
1820 - 1891
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William T. Sherman was one of the greatest military leaders in history. He was a leader in the Civil War and came up with “Total War”.
July 14, 1822
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The Denmark Vesey plot was a plot created by Vesey. Slaves were going to revolt against their masters. word got out about it and it failed. Vesey and other people involved in the plot were hung
1828 - 1829
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Protective Tariffs were passed which only benefited the north.The south was based off agriculture, the north was mostly industrialized.
1830 - 1870
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The Abolitionist Movement was an effort to end slavery in the US because they believed in freedom and believed "all men are created equal." Over time, abolitionists got more demanding in ending slavery, and slave owners got mad, which led to the American Civil War.
1839 - 1915
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Robert Smalls was a slave who escaped with his family from Charleston Harbour.
1847 - 1850
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The Dred Scott Decision was a Supreme Court case which a slave who had lived in a now free state with his master should have been freed but wasn’t.
1854
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the most significant event leading to the Civil War. It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement.
1860
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This election was a major one to help the conflict of slavery. This was between Abraham Lincoln and James k. polk.
1861 - 1865
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The Civil War was the war between the Northern and Southern states of America over slavery.
1861 - 1865
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South Carolina was the first to secede from the union in 1860. Many states soon followed, and by 1861, Jefferson Davis was their president and Richmond, Virginia was their capital. The Confederate States of America, or CSA, was created.
1861 - 1862
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Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War. The South attacked the fort, which belonged to the North.
1861 - 1862
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The Battle of Port Royal was fought near Port Royal sound and was a major victory for the Union
1861
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A secessionist is one who believes in seceding from a certain place or government. South Carolina’s government was a secessionist government at this time.
1864
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William T. Sherman made a march from Atlanta to Savannah and used what is known as today “total war”. The purpose of “total war” is to weaken the southern soldiers’ will to fight.
1865
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While in Ford’s Theater, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in the head. Lincoln died the next morning.