George C. Rogers - A South Carolina chronology, 1497-1992
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Describes the principal events occuring in the history of the Palmetto State from 1497-1970.
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Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rogers, George C. A South Carolina chronology, 14971992 / George C. Rogers, Jr. and C. James Taylor. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0872499715 (alk. paper) 1. South CarolinaHistoryChronology. I. Taylor, C. James, 1945 . II. Title. F269.R675 1993 975.7'002'02dc20 9327306
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Contents
Preface
vii
I. Establishing European Claims (14971669)
1
II. The Colony (16701764)
8
III. Revolution (17651790)
38
IV. The State and the Union (17911859)
63
V. Secession, War, and After (18601895)
94
VI. The Segregated State (18961964)
115
VII. The Modern State (19651992)
141
Index
155
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Preface
These are the principal dates in the history of South Carolina. The compilers have tried to incorporate events that would reflect the total history of the province and the state so that if one read through the chronology one would be aware of the fundamental developments in Carolina society and the major changes that have occurred.
The second edition of A South Carolina Chronology has been necessitated by the changes that have occurred in the focus of American history over the last twenty years. In addition to the new broader reading of events that expands the previously chronicled period to take more notice of race, gender, and other social issues, twenty years of notable changes and remarkable events have added measurably to South Carolina's history and this chronology.
If this work is updated again in the next century almost certainly the focus will have changed, new questions will be asked, and serious omissions will be found. And, of course, another generation of the state's history will need to be chronicled. Readers are admonished, as in the 1973 edition, to report errors and omissions to be kept on file for that inevitable revision.
GEORGE C. ROGERS, JR. C. JAMES TAYLOR
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I Establishing European Claims (14971669)
The foothills and coastal plain bounded on the south by the Savannah River, on the west by the Appalachian Mountains, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, make up the territory we now call South Carolina. The state has no major natural boundary to the north until one comes to the Roanoke River, which debouches into the Albemarle Sound around latitude 36 north. The region is curiously divided into a geologically very ancient area of Precambrian rock formations, of which the blue granite quarried in Fairfield County is an example, and a flat southeastern area where sand, shells, and marl were deposited in the relatively recent Cretaceous period.
We know very little about the Native Americans who lived here before European settlement. Each year new archeological discoveries are made, and we learn more about the first inhabitants of this area. The perspective of our globe has changed drastically in the past two decades as the theory of plate tectonics has been accepted. The continents do float on the mantle of the earth. Pangaea is the concept of the first land masses when they were all nestled together. Since that time the seven continents have drifted apart until they took the configuration that they make today on the globe. Homo sapiens emerged long ago in Asia and Africa and from those origins these early people have spread across the global land masses. It is agreed that the Native Americans crossed a Bering Sea land bridge about 15,000 years ago from Asia to North America. These were the ancestors of the Incas, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and all of the Indian tribes that have figured in the history of what is now the United States and of South Carolina. One feature of their cultures shared throughout the inhabited "new world" was
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the building of mounds for ceremonial and religious purposes. The most exciting remains are the temples of Central America. In what is now the U.S. we speak of the Mississippian culture with the chief example that of Cahokia in present-day Illinois. At least the largest mounds have been found at that site. There are lesser configurations at Ocmulgee and Muscogee in Georgia and Cofitachiqui on the Wateree River just south of Camden, South Carolina.
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