When was South Carolina settled in, who discovered it, which groups of people settle in there and why did the settlers come to America.

The first inhabitants of present-day South Carolina likely arrived about 11,000–12,000 years ago. Hunting and gathering typified their first 10 millennia, but they developed agriculture about 1000 BCE.

This act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.