Backcountry (changed after the American Revolution), the area in the northwestern part of the state, originally the home to the Cherokees.

The area that surrounded the city of Charleston along the Atlantic coast of the state. Also, this area was the first area settled in the state, and eventually the plantation owners in the area grew rich from the export of rice and indigo.

Effect: Tension between the people of the Upcountry and the Lowcountry of SC

Many of these people were subsistence farmers. Although a few owned slaves, they did not have large plantations and most worked their farms without the assistance of slave labor. These people objected to having to travel so far to present issues to the legislature or argue their legal matters in court.

These people were mostly planter elite whose economic well-being and social status depended on their slave holdings

Both suffered economically as a result of the war. Economic problems would persist until the early 1800s when cotton became a new cash crop.

The original state capital where legal business was transacted. The Charleston elite had a greater influence on the government.

Effect: These measures helped ease, but did not eliminate, political tensions between the Upcountry and the Lowcountry since the Lowcountry maintained its majority in the legislature.

Effect: Lowcountry planters resisted giving the Upcountry more equal representation in the legislature.

Effect: The Upcountry had a greater need for slave labor.

Effect: The willingness of the Lowcountry to share power increased as well.

Effect: Representation was to be based equally on the white population and the amount of taxable property (including slaves). The areas that had the most slaves continued to have disproportionate control over the legislature (Lowcountry).