Colony - one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

battle of Cowpens, Cowpens - battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

capital of South Carolina, Columbia - capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina

Charleston - a port city in southeastern South Carolina

Florence - a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center

Greenville - a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont

Pee Dee, Pee Dee River - a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean

Savannah River, Savannah - a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic