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Today episode 35, Carolina regulators and the Battle of Aliments.

So last week we discussed the decision to pull British troops out of Boston following the

Boston massacre, as well as the repeal of most of the towns and duties.

These pullbacks ushered in several years of relative calm

from the end of 1770 until the end of 1773

when the Tea Party broke the piece once again.

Of course those years were not entirely trouble-free and today I want to cover one of those

problems the regulator movement in the Carolinas.

I find the political evolution of North Carolina and South Carolina during this era

particularly fascinating, because they ended up in very different places.

In both cases, settlers from the western part of the colony tended to be German, Scotch, or Irish

as compared to the English who settled along the East Coast.

When the revolution broke out, Western North Carolina settlers tended to support the Patriot cause,

while Easterners tended to maintain stronger support for the King.

In South Carolina, the opposite happened.

Easterners joined the Patriot Cause, while Westerners tended to remain loyal to the king.

I've not really paid much attention to South Carolina since episode 15

when the British crushed the Cherokee uprising of 1761. After that the Cherokee gave up a large

amount of territory to settle the dispute. Colonial settlers of course moved in and

set up farms.

Although parts of what is known as the Piedmont region of the colony had white colonists who had lived

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