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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.

South and billionaire
Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.
* The Rupert family, a billionaire family from Stellenbosch, South Africa or members of that family:
Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert ( 4 October 1916 – 18 January 2006 ) was an Afrikaner South African billionaire entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist.
Daniel Keith Ludwig ( June 24, 1897, South Haven, Michigan-August 27, 1992 ) was a US shipping magnate and billionaire.

South and financier
* The Aiken Tennis Club: in Aiken, South Carolina founded in 1898 by William C. Whitney political leader, financier and a key figure in the prominent Whitney family.
In private business, Cahan was a lawyer and financier for extensive tramway operations in South America, Trinidad and Mexico.
* Benjamin Thaw ( 1859 – 1933 ), Pittsburgh financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
* Calvin Wells ( 1827 – 1909 ), industrialist, financier and member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club
He named a creek to the north of town after John Tennant, a financier of his expedition and a pastoralist from Port Lincoln, South Australia, in gratitude for the financial help Tennant had provided for Stuart's expeditions across Australia.
* Ernest Oppenheimer ( 1880 – 1957 ), diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier ; controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, brother of Bernard
The Richmond and Danville System expanded throughout the South during this period, but was overextended, and came upon financial troubles in 1893, when control was lost to financier J. P. Morgan, who reorganized it into the Southern Railway System.
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer ( 22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957 ) was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa.
The day before the journey, Pyne passes the time talking to General Poli about items in the newspaper, mainly the search for a crooked financier called Samuel Long who is on the run and is rumoured to be in South America.

South and was
Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
In 1900 the South was only 15% urban ; ;
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.
It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.
South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.
The most beautiful bed of pansies I've seen was in a South Dakota yard on a sizzling day.
The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.
The Providence Daily Journal stated that although the guilt of Brown was evident, the South must guarantee him a fair trial to preserve domestic peace.
For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.
The revenue from O'Banion's Cicero territory went up still higher, until the yield was more than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago's South and West Sides.
Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.
The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.
He was born in the North and did his military training in the South.
In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.
An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.
There was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam.
Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

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