South Carolina      By:Elizabeth Hatfield

     I chose South Carolina because it's state bird is the Carolina wren. 

It's state animal is the Whitetail Deer.

And it's state butterfly is the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

South Carolina's total population is 4,012,012 people,also it's largest and state capital city is Columbia.

Columbia's population is 122,819.Located just 13 miles (21 km) northwest of South Carolina's geographic center, Columbia is the primary city of the Midlands region of South Carolina, which comprises several counties in the central portion of the state.South Carolina's area is 32,007 square miles.

The state flag of South Carolina was officially adopted in 1861. It has a white crescent and a white palmetto tree on a blue ground. Three white crescents (on a blue background) were first used on a South Carolina banner protesting the Stamp Act in 1765. In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie designed a banner for South Carolina troops; it had a white crescent on a blue field. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, the palmetto tree was added to the flag. The palmetto tree was chosen because this tree had helped South Carolinians defeat the British in a battle at Sullivan's Island (during the Revolutionary War). The South Carolinians built a fort out of palmetto wood, and when the British fired cannonballs at the fort, instead of knocking the fort down, the soft palmetto wood just absorbed the cannonballs.

In 1788 South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. The relocation of the state capital in 1786 from Charleston to the newly created city of Columbia in the interior was intended to reduce the regional conflict, but the 1790 constitution continued Low Country dominance of the government. After the proliferation of the cotton gin by 1800, the cotton plantation and slavery moved into the Piedmont and created common interests between the two regions. The Up Country also benefited from internal improvements that included a canal-building program.