Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

The clause reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who on the contrary still wished to continue it.

( Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Virginia, and South Carolina ).

British traders from South Carolina incited the Indians against the French, and there developed French and British Factions in the tribe.

Their entry will crack the total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate school, in Georgia -- and in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina as well.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

The upper South and border states ( Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas ) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on a U. S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

* 1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

Doubleday photo displayed at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston harbor

Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina ( 2007 )

* Stine, Harold E. The agrarian revolt in South Carolina ;: Ben Tillman and the Farmers ' Alliance ( 1974 )

* 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel ( she drops out less than a week later ).

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.

* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

* The Great Wall – Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, New York, West Virginia, South Carolina

They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.

The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.

In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Congressman James Madison started the party among Representatives in Philadelphia ( the national capital ) as the Republican party ; then he, Jefferson, and others reached out to include state and local leaders around the country, especially New York and the South.

* May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.

In 1832, the residents changed the name to Lowndesboro in honor of U. S. Congressman William Lowndes, the son of Rawlins Lowndes, an early South Carolina governor.

* James S. Cothran, ( 1830 – 1897 ), born near Abbeville, United States Congressman from South Carolina

* Robert C. De Large, ( 1842 – 1874 ), born in Aiken, United States Congressman from South Carolina in a contested election

James Augustus Black, ( 1793 – 1848 ), was born in Ninety Six and became a United States Congressman from South Carolina.

United States Congressman Gresham Barrett, 3rd District of South Carolina

It was named after Andrew Pickens ( 1739 – 1817 ), an American revolutionary soldier and US Congressman for South Carolina.

* Clint Roberts-United States Congressman for South Dakota's 2nd congressional district from 1981 to 1983.

( His wife, Mary Izard, daughter of Walter Izard, Esq., was a cousin of South Carolina Congressman Ralph Izard ; likewise a son of Congressman Izard was married to a niece of Arthur Middleton, and another son married Arthur's daughter Emma ).

* December 8: South Dakota Congressman Bill Janklow is convicted of manslaughter.

* Andrew Pickens ( congressman ) ( 1739 – 1817 ), American revolutionary soldier and US Congressman, South Carolina

His son, Francis Wilkinson Pickens ( 1805 – 1869 ) was a U. S. Congressman and the Governor of South Carolina when the state seceded from the Union in 1860.

* Joe Wilson 1969 — Congressman from South Carolina who shouted " You lie!

* Bob Inglis, U. S. Congressman from South Carolina

In 1856, a South Carolina Congressman nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor two days after Sumner delivered an intensely anti-slavery speech called " The Crime against Kansas ".

* Congressman William J. Janklow, the only Representative from the state of South Dakota, is charged with vehicular manslaughter for an accident on August 16 in which Janklow's speeding car ran a stop sign and hit and killed a motorcyclist.

* Andrew Pickens ( congressman ) ( 1739 – 1817 ), American revolutionary soldier and US Congressman, South Carolina

In 1973, Newark State College was renamed Kean College of New Jersey for the Kean family whose members include Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean ; U. S. Congressman and U. S. Senator John Kean of New Jersey ; former New Jersey Governor and 9 / 11 Commission ( Kean Commission ) Chairman Thomas Kean, Sr .; U. S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean ; Julia Kean, the wife of US Secretary of State and New York Governor Hamilton Fish ; First Lady of the United States Anna Symmes Harrison ; New Jersey State Senator and United States Senate nominee Thomas Kean, Jr .; and John Kean of South Carolina, delegate to the Continental Congress.