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It was a conflict between British settlers of colonial South Carolina and various Native American Indian tribes. They killed hundreds of colonists and destroyed many settlements.

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.
In response to the rebellion, the South Carolina legislature passed the Negro Act of 1740 restricting slave assembly, education, and movement.

It was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. It was between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth.

The first recorded cotton dealing in Liverpool was a newspaper advertisement for an auction of 28 bags of Jamaican cotton in 1759. Over the next seven decades a series of technological and industrial developments revolutionised cotton production. Liverpool enjoyed a physical proximity to the world centre of the industry - the Lancashire cotton towns.

The Cherokee War was a revolt against the idea for the Cherokees to move to westward expansion. The Cherokees didn’t want to live in the scorched‐earth and disease.

Designation for two groups, one in South Carolina, the other in North Carolina, that tried to effect governmental changes in the 1760s. The Regulator movement was an organized effort by backcountry settlers to restore law and order and establish institutions of local government.

The Sons of Liberty was a group consisting of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the taxes by the British government.

The Stamp Act 1765 imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. It was required to have the printed materials on stamped paper.

The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures.

African-Caribbean 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.

American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from the East Indian Company. But the American colonists saw this law as yet another means of "taxation without representation" because it meant that they couldn't buy tea from anyone else.

The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) or American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and US colonies.

On March 26, 1776 – just over three months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, South Carolina adopted a state constitution becoming the first independent government in the colonies.

The proclamation made by the second American Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which asserted the freedom and independence of the 13 Colonies from Great Britain

The 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 Battle of Camden was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates about 10 km (six miles) north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston

American victory on October 7, 1780 near the North Carolina-South Carolina border that destroyed one whole section of General Charles Cornwallis's army and forced him to retreat to South Carolina to wait for reinforcements. I

The Battle of Eutaw Springs was one of the hardest fought and bloodiest battles of the Revolution and proved to be the last major engagement of the war to take place in the South. The Patriots' partial victory cemented their near-complete control of the southern section of the country.

A SC battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British

The 3/5 Compromise stated that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person in terms of both taxation and representation. It was called a compromise because it settled the ongoing arguments over regional power between the North and South. Therefore, they compromised that a slave would be counted as 3/5 of a person towards the total population.

The compromise allowed the federal government to only tax imports.

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A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

The “great compromise,” created a bicameral (two-house) legislature with the states having equal representation in the upper house or senate and the people having proportional representation in the lower house, where all money bills were to originate.

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

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.

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

The Embargo Act of 1807 prohibited all US merchant ships from sailing to foreign ports, in an attempt to economically coerce Britain and France from restricting US trade with Continental Europe and Britain respectively.

The War of 1812 has also been called the second American war for independence. It began over alleged British violations of American shipping rights, such as the impressment of seamen — the forcing of American merchant sailors to serve on British ships. American soldiers attacked Canada unsuccessfully in the war, and the British retaliated by burning the White House and other buildings in Washington, D.C.

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. Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general".[

From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination

He 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.

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 trials of Dred Scott were the beginning of a complicated series of events which concluded with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1857.

the election of 1860 profound divisions existed among Americans over the future course of their country, and especially over the South's "peculiar institution," slavery.

The American Civil War, also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Noth and the South.

The Confederacy recognized members in eleven states that had formally declared secession, two additional states with less formal declarations, and one new territory.

The site where the first Battle of the Civil War took place on April 12 and 13, 1861, in SC.

The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the war.

That was a term used to label the Southeners who wanted to seceed from the Union.

Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated,though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson thirty years before in 1835.