1. POLITICS IN CHARLESTON
Danyn Terry

2. CHARLESTON. WHAT IS IT?
• It
was a town in South
Carolina
• Itwas the largest
cosmopolitan area in the
1700s
• The had one of the largest
Jewish populations

3. WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT?
• Charleston gained the South Carolina also
reputation as the home of
opposed any
an independent-minded
people. compromises
proposed that would
• They further solidified their balance the interests
independent-mindedness between slave and
during the Nullification Crisis free states
in 1832

4. CIVIL WAR STUFF
• Notsurprisingly, the first shots of the Civil War were fired in
Charleston Harbor, at Fort Sumter, on April 12, 1861.
• Charleston became the focal point of numerous Union
attacks, although the strategic advantages to capturing the city
did not justify the effort.