The state flag of South Carolina
was officially adopted in 1861. It has a white
crescent moon and a white palmetto tree on a blue
ground. Three white crescent moons (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
moon 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.
Capital: Columbia
Nickname: Palmetto State
Mottoes: Animis opibusque parati
(Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro
spero (While I breathe, I hope)
Flower: Carolina Yellow Jessamine
(1924)
South Carolina was the 8th state in the USA;
it was admitted in 1788.
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