History: Early South Carolina History

From Reader's Guide to British History
Much the best studied of the three colonies is South Carolina, which enjoyed spectacular economic growth in the second quarter of the 18th century as exports of slave-produced rice and indigo soared to meet the demands of expanding European markets.

1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States.

From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
As the wealthiest city in the wealthiest colony in British North America, Charleston, South Carolina was a center of the American Enlightenment.

The plantation appeared on the North American continent with the first British colonists in Virginia in 1607.

From World History Encyclopedia
Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, rice cultivation increased in acreage in Japan and migrated to the New World.

From The New Encyclopedia of the American West
In 1663 Charles II granted a charter to eight English courtiers for a vast territory, called Carolina, located just south of Virginia.

From The Encyclopedia of The Continental Congresses

From Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, publications against federal tariff laws, were introduced in the state legislature in 1828 and mark the start of the nullification crisis.

Original North American colonies that signed the Declaration of Independence from Britain in 1776,

Tobacco is indigenous to the Americas and was unknown to Europeans until the late 16th century.