South Carolina
     
 


Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina was based on a plantation culture with an aristocratic, wealthy society that was dependent on black slave labor. One of the original 13 colonies, South Carolina was first formed in 1729 when the Carolina colony was divided in two to form North and South Carolina. The attack on Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor launched the Civil War. After the war, the structure of the state changed. Today, South Carolina is a growing research center and banking state. It is fitting that the state tree of the "Palmetto State" is the cabbage palmetto, which also appears on the state flag.

South Carolina Profile

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Capital and largest city, Columbia
Statehood, May 23, 1788 |  (8th of original 13) 
Mottos, Dum Spiro Spero [While I Breathe, I Hope]
and Animis Opibusque Parati
  [Prepared in Mind and Resources]
Nickname, Palmetto State | State bird, Carolina wren
 State flower, Carolina jessamine | State tree, palmetto


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