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Rice was first grown in South Carolina about 1680 when Henry h.Woodward planted seed that a captain of a Madagascar ship gave to him and by the early 18th century, it became a major export crop of the Lower South.

The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses regulating activities related to interactions between slaves and U.S. citizens in the U.S. state of Virginia.

The Yemassee had a good and friendly relationship with the south carolina settealer. The Yemassee controlled much of lower savannah

The Stono rebellion was also called Cato's Rebellion. It was a slave rebellion that began on September 9th 1739. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies.

It was fought between British America and New France. They were both being supported by military units from there parent countries.

The sons of liberty were a pre-revolutionary secret organization that were opposed to British's rule over the thirteen colonies.
They existed in every colony and worked to undermine British power in the area.

Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act. The British place a three cent tax on three types of sugar that the Americans bought.

the Regulator movement was an organized by back country settlers to restore law and order.Right before battle James Hunter, who many considered the “general of the Regulators,” was asked to lead a band of nearly 2,000 men, some unarmed and many confused, against Governor William Tryon’s well organized militia force of nearly 1,000.

The stamp act placed tax on any type of paper. Such as news paper, white paper, and documents. They placed taxes on mostly every thing because they were in debt from the french and Indian war.

The Tea act was an act of Parliament of Great Britain. Its purpose was to reduce the price on tea.The British would over charge for tea.

It started of as a war against Great Britain and the thirteen colonies,but then it grew. It started to be Great Britain and the newly formed united states.

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.

colonials first referred to these Cherokee as the "Chickamauga" and later called them "lower cherokee".Dragging Canoe was the leader in both phases of the conflict, the period was sometimes called "Dragging Canoe's War."

Declaration of Independence was a statement that said that the states are to be free from Britain.

The British Parliament, claiming of late years a right to bind the North American colonies by law in all cases whatsoever.

The Battle of Camden was a very big victory for Britain. August 16,1780 British forces under General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolin's following the capture of Charleston.

Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The actual battle took place on October 7, 1780

It was a turning point in the reconquest of South Carolina from the British.

last major engagement of the war in the Carolin's.Major General Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army began a campaign to end British control over the South Carolina back country. His first major objective was the capture of the British controlled village of Ninety Six

Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states.It originated with a 1783 amendment, proposed to the Articles of Confederation.

sharing of control over taxation and regulation of commerce between the states and the central government.

The Federal Convention convened in the State House in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. Because the delegations from only two states were at first present

On May 29, 1787, Edmund Randolph of the Virginia delegation proposed the creation of a bicameral legislature.Membership in the lower house was to be allocated in proportion to state population, and candidates were to be nominated and elected by the people of each state.

a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand.

Total war played a major part in conflicts from the French Revolutionary Wars to World War II, but has been replaced in the modern era by cheaper, quicker and more effective policies including guerrilla warfare and the adoption of weapons of mass destruction.

The U.S. merchant marine suffered from both the British and French, and Thomas Jefferson undertook to answer both nations with measures that by restricting neutral trade would show the importance of that trade.

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman gathered 100,000 troops for the invasion of Georgia and captured and burned Atlanta and began his devastating March to the Sea to capture Savannah, leaving a trail of near-total destruction.

was an African-Caribbean who was most famous for planning a slave rebellion in the United States. He was enslaved in the Caribbean before being brought to the United States and was probably of Coromantee background. After purchasing his freedom, he planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States.

The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west.

Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.

United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all of the country's territories.

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) 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 United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.

The civil war was fought by the union and some of the southern states " the slave states".

The Confederate Constitution of seven state signatories—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas—formed a "permanent federal government" in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861. Four additional slave-holding states—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina—declared their secession and joined the Confederacy following a call by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln for troops from each state to recapture Sumter and other lost federal properties in the South.

On April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. At 2:30pm on April 13 Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, surrendered the fort and was evacuated the next day.

The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated

he was an enslaved African American who eventually became a sea captain and politician. He served in both the South Carolina House of Representatives and from 1870 to 1874 in the State Senate.

Mainstream political theory largely ignored theories of secession until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s through secession. Theories of secession address a fundamental problem of political philosophy: the legitimacy and moral basis of the state's authority, be it based on "God's will", consent of the people, the morality of goals, or usefulness to obtaining goals.