USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When do historians think the first people arrived in South Carolina?
A
15, 000 years ago
B
35, 000 years ago
C
40, 000 years ago
D
55, 000 years ago
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -First European settlement in South Carolina in 1526 near Georgetown settled by Spanish explorer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon named San Miguel de Gualdape.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first European attempts at settlement failed, but in 1670 a permanent English settlement was established on the coast near present day Charleston. The colony, named Carolina after King Charles I, was divided in 1710 into South Carolina and North Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1670, the first permanent English settlement in South Carolina was established at Albemarle Point. Many of the original settlers came from the Caribbean island of Barbados, including the new governor, William Sayle.

Detailed explanation-4: -[7] The earliest documentation for a slave ship arriving in eighteenth-century South Carolina dates from 1710.

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