In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This battle was precipitated by the threat to destroy settlements in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina unless the population submitted to royal authority. The settlers decided not to wait for Major Ferguson to bring the war to them and sent a force of frontiersmen to look for him. They found him and 900 Loyalists at this site encamped on a plateau that seemed to provide an excellent defensive position. But the slopes leading up to the plateau were strewn with trees and boulders that provided the colonials with effective cover when they began their attack during the afternoon. FTP identify this Revolutionary War battle fought on Oct. 7, 1780, in north-central South Carolina, which helped turn the tide of the war in the South.
History