Rice"…Finally, because South Carolina, from its climate, its situation and its peculiar institutions, is and must always continue to be entirely dependent on agriculture and commerce, no only for its prosperity, but also for its existence as a State…” (Boller, p. 110) - John C Calhoun: explosion and protest in South Carolina (1828)  While the North underwent an "industrial revolution", the South remained based on agriculture Rice, which was first grown in early South Carolina. of the 1960s, was a very promising crop. Between 1820 and 1850, rice production almost tripled, making it one of the major colonial crops along the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia. t is definitively revealed to be a "magical culture" of the South (Boyer, p. 96) The Carolinas were originally granted in 1663 by King Charles II of England to a few of his British supporters. The owners named the land Caroline in honor of King Charles. Charles in Latin is Carolus. (Olmsted, p. 312) The colony grows quickly at first. However, in 1669, Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the owners, accelerated settlement by offering land grants to immigrants. For each new family member, indentured servant, or slave brought in, fifty acres of land was given to the head of the family. Rich immigrants, or those with large families, received a large piece of land, which...... middle of paper ...... which was sold in Europe, in the West Indies, in the North and produced in South Carolina and Georgia. A decade later, rice production increased to 215,313,497 pounds. A decline in rice production occurred in 1850. This decline was most likely caused by rising cotton prices which removed labor or capital from rice production, or perhaps that planters hesitated to risk the lives of expensive slaves in the unsanitary rice swamps. But whatever the reason, rice farmers never appeared in the Southeast, and after the Civil War they moved west to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. United States from 1690, and the production of rice, as well as the American nation. The South posed a threat to the Union. The incompatibility of North and South caused a complete separation of the two; whether issues concerning industrialization, slavery or simply the unity of the nation.