South+Carolina


 * When it began || The colony was explored in the 1500s, but the first Spanish and French colonys failed. The first succesful colony was established on Port Royal South Carolina in 1670. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Who began it || In 1670 Caiptain Joseph West led a group of men to Port Royal off the coast of South Carolina. They settled there and they named the Colony Charelston after king Charles II of England. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Why was it begun || King Charles I decided to colonize a peice of land along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. This peice of land became Carolona, then Carolina, and then North and south Carolina. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Where was it begun || King Charles I granted a large piece of land called Carolona to Sir Robert Heath. He did not settle there so the same land was given to eight others. They sent governers to to rule the new colony and the name changed to Carolina. The eight men sent a group of men from many nationalities to settle there. Charleston was formed and the first English colony had begun. Then the eight men who appointed the settlers split Carolina in two colonys, South Carolina and North Carolina. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Who was there first || There were many different Native American tribes in the South Carolina area. Some of those tribes were the Yamassee, the Cherokee, and the Catawba tribes were there first. The settlers had many wars with the Native Americans, one war was with the Yamasse it was called the Yammasee war. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * What's special about it || The south Carolina colony depended almost entirely on the use of slaves on plantations to grow many cash crops for thier owner to sell such as indigo, cotton, and tabacco. The colony's rich fertile soil made it an ideal place to grow crops and to have plantations worked by slaves. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

THE SOUTH CAROLOINA COLONY REIGON: SOUTHERN

DID YOU KNOW. -that indigo leaves (see chart above) contained a valuble dye that could be sold by the owner of the plantation that grew it. -that the blue ridge mountain range (part of Appalachian mountain range) is the highst point in South Carolina. -that there were three classes of people in the colony, the Upper class people, the middle class people, and the lower class people whitch was made up of slaves.