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On March 15th, 1767, President Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw, SC.
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In 1775, Col. William Moultrie created a a blue flag that included the cresent moon. In 1776 the palmetto tree was added to the flag.
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Columbia becomes South Carolina's state capital.
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South Carolina enters the Union, becoming the 8th state to join.
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Charleston is the first state to accept the Ordinance of Sucession. South Carolina is the first to seceed from the Union
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston.
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Based off the poem by Henry Timrod, "Carolina" becomes the official state song for South Carolina
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The Yellow Jasmine was made South Carolina's staet flower.
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The Cabbage Palmetto becomes the state tree in 1939.
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In 1948, South Carolina's state bird is the Carolina Wren. The Carolina Wren replaces the old state bird, the mockingbird.
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The Civil Rights Act is passed in South Carolina. This is the leading cause to the end of segregation.
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The White-Tailed Deer becomes the state animal for South Carolina.
