In The 1980s And 90s, How Did South Carolina's Economy Change?

Settled by the English in 1670, S Carolina became the eighth land to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Its early economy was largely agricultural, benefitting from the area's fertile soil. Plantation farmers relied on the slave trade for cheap labor to maximize profits.

Past 1730, people of African descent made upwardly 2 thirds of the colony's population. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union in 1861 and was the site of the beginning shots of the Ceremonious War–the shelling of the federally held Fort Sumter by Confederate troops on Apr 12, 1861.

Today, South Carolina's coastline near Myrtle Beach has developed into one of the premiere resort destinations on the E Coast and has over 100 golf courses. Famous Southward Carolinians include musicians James Brown, Chubby Checker and Giddy Gillespie, novelist Pat Conroy, boxer Joe Frazier, lawn tennis champion Althea Gibson, politico Jesse Jackson and long-serving U.South. Senator Strom Thurmond.

Date of Statehood: May 23, 1788

Capital letter: Columbia

Population: iv,625,364 (2010)

Size: 32,021 foursquare miles

Nickname(s): Palmetto Land

Motto: Dum Spiro Spero (While I Exhale, I Hope)

Tree: Palmetto

Blossom: Xanthous Jessamine

Bird: Carolina Wren

Interesting Facts

Charleston welcomed a shipment of golf balls and clubs from Scotland as early as 1743. On September 29, 1786, the South Carolina Golf Club was formed and, within the aforementioned year, America'southward kickoff golf course was established on Harleston Green. In 2011, there were more than than 350 golf game courses within the country of South Carolina.

After capturing Columbia on Feb 17, 1865, Union soldiers under General William Tecumseh Sherman burned and destroyed more than than two-thirds of the metropolis. Due to deficient funding following the war, the new Land House was not rebuilt until 1903.

On November ii, 1954, old Governor Strom Thurmond became the first person to be elected to the U.Due south. Senate as a write-in candidate, winning 63 percentage of the vote. Thurmond served the country of South Carolina as senator for 47 years, five months and 8 days.

In 2000, the Amalgamated flag was removed from the dome on acme of the State House and placed on the grounds most the Confederate Soldier Monument in response to a NAACP cold-shoulder of the state and protests over its legacy. More than 10 years later, the flag's location continues to be the subject of ongoing controversy.

The just commercial tea plantation in the contiguous 48 states is on Wadmalaw Island, near Charleston, Southward Carolina.
The palmetto tree has been an important icon of South Carolina since the American Revolutionary War. When the British attacked a fort on Sullivan'southward Island, near Charleston, the cannonballs bounced off the spongy palmetto logs used to build the exterior wall.

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