Moving Companies in South Carolina (SC)

SOUTH CAROLINA

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of South Carolina.

Capital City: Columbia
Nicknames: Palmetto State  

Population over 4.1 million residents

State’s Flag: The state flag displays a palmetto, the state tree, and a crescent, which is the emblem that South Carolina’s Revolutionary War soldiers wore on their caps. The flag was adopted in 1861.

          Although it is the smallest of the Southern states, South Carolina has nevertheless done more than its share to create both the reality and the enduring myth of the Deep South. A center of plantation aristocracy, the state was the first to secede from the Union when hostilities came to a head. Despite this position, the Palmetto State later accepted civil rights legislation with relative dignity and peace. South Carolina also led the old Confederacy in turning away from a near-total dependence on agriculture-yet its greatest modern treasure, the strikingly handsome city of Charleston, remains a testament to an older, agrarian wealth.

          The territory that was to become South Carolina, the ancestral home of the Cherokee, Yamasee, and a host of other Native American tribes, was first visited by Europeans when a Spanish expedition explored the coastline in 1521. Both the Spanish and the French made a few attempts at settlement, but it was not until 1663-when Britain’s King Charles II granted the lands between Florida and Virginia to eight “lords’ proprietors”–that Europeans began to colonize the area in earnest.

The first English settlers of the granted land, named “Carolina” after the Latin form of Charles, included many planters from Barbados. They landed near present-day Charleston, on the Ashley River, and by the beginning of the 18^th century had begun to create an economy based upon the cultivation of tobacco, indigo, and, eventually, the crop that would prove to be the mainstay of the low country’s economy and diet rice. The cultivation of rice was especially labor-intensive, since it involved controlled flooding of rich bottomlands by means of dikes and canals. The labor on South Carolina plantations was provided by African slaves. By the 1730s blacks accounted for about two-thirds of South Carolina’s population. The colony’s ethnic makeup grew slightly more varied at the end of the 17^th century, when Scots arrived and French Huguenot refugees established plantations. Also within 50 years the up-country saw an influx of Scotch-Irish, Welsh, Swiss, and German immigrants (many of them from the northern Appalachians) that presaged not merely greater ethnic diversity but a socioeconomic order vastly different from and often at odds with that of the low-country plantation aristocracy. After all, a hardscrabble Blue Ridge farm was a far cry from a low-country plantation. In 1786 tension between the two regions led to the compromise choice of inland Columbia as capital, replacing the planters’ hub of Charleston.

          In 1832 State legislature nullifies a federal tariff, leading to crisis over states’ rights. In 1860 South Carolina is first state to secede from the Union. In 1861 Confederate attack on Fort Sumter begins Civil War. In 1865 Union troops led by General Sherman bum Columbia. In 1868 South Carolina is readmitted to the Union. In 1895 Rewriting of state constitution effectively disenfranchises most blacks. In 1953 Savannah River Plant begins to make nuclear materials. In 1963 Integration of South Carolina’s public schools begins. In 1989 Hurricane Hugo devastates coast, killing 13 people. In 1995 the wreck of the H. L. Hunley, a Confederate submarine that was active in the Civil War, is discovered by a team of divers. 

Service industries: Tourism, wholesale and retail trade, medical facilities, real estate.

Manufacturing: Dyes, fibers, textiles, pharmaceuticals, soaps, machinery, paper.

Agriculture: Tobacco, soybeans, cotton, vegetables, fruits, beef cattle, hogs, broiler chickens, eggs.

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