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by Kate
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I have learned more about what is now
known as South Carolina. It is interesting to find out about
the colonies from over two hundred years ago. Did you
know....? People started to come from Europe to
live in America in the 1500s. King Charles of England became
interested in the land he named the property Carolana, or “Land
of Charles”. In 1663 the spelling changed to Carolina. His
son gave the land to eight family friends as a gift. In 1669
England sent one hundred people to settle in South Carolina.
They built homes, shops, and a port for the ships. In 1712
North and South Carolina became separate colonies. In the
early 1700s, they’d discovered that rice grew well in the swampy
land, and indigo could be planted behind the rice paddies. By 1760, Charleston was one of the richest towns in all of the
colonies. The town had a newspaper, a theater, a large
bookstore,
horse races and musical concerts.
Charleston was a fine place to live if you were a white
colonist. Half of the slaves who came to South Carolina came
through Charleston harbor. In the
1760s, England decided to raise money by taxing the colonists. The
taxes made the colonists angry and they refused to pay them.
People threw tea in the water like the Boston Tea Party. The
American Revolution came soon after that.
By the end of 1788 South Carolina became the eighth
state in America. I have learned that there were a lot
of people who came to South Carolina to settle in the colony.
I also found out they got mad when England taxed the colony.
I would have gotten mad too. Even though we have taxes now,
I think the King shouldn't have done that because he sent them
there to start a colony. To
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