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 * South Carolina was founded in 1670 by a group of 200 colonists (also appointed by the propietors) from England, Barbados.
 * Founded for profit, farming, and trade.
 * There was good farming there also was clay soil.
 * Some Indian tribes are the Cherokee (chair-o-key) and the Catawba (ca-ta-ba).
 * A big threat to Carleston Habor were pirates (in the early 1700s . They where a constant threat to ships sailing in and out of the harbor.
 * In 1718 the Carolinians captured one of the most wicked pirates Stede Bonnet.
 * State Fought in the Revolutionary war.
 * There where 8 propietors that of wich started the colony.
 * The state was part of the Confederate army in the Civil war.
 * Union troops invaded South Carolina in 1865 (during the Civil war) and burned the city of Columbus.
 * They lived in plantations and farms.