In 1719, South Carolina became a crown colony. Pushing back the Native Americans in the Yamasee War (1715–1717), colonists next overthrew the proprietors' rule in the Revolution of 1719, seeking more direct representation.
The Province of Carolina was split into North and South Carolina in 1712. They started to develop their commodity crops of sugar and cotton. They were mostly wealthy planters and their slaves coming from the English Caribbean colony of Barbados. The first settlers came to the Province of Carolina at the port of Charleston in 1670. In 1663, the English Crown granted land to eight proprietors of what became the colony. European exploration of the area began in April 1540 with the Hernando de Soto expedition, which unwittingly introduced diseases that decimated the local Native American population. South Carolina was one of the Thirteen Colonies that first formed the United States.
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