This includes agriculture, forestry, fishing and mining. In contrast, the secondary sector produces manufactured goods, and the tertiary sector produces services. The primary sector is usually most important in less-developed countries, and typically less important in industrial countries.
A: There was no predominant religion in colonial South Carolina. The three main religious groups were the French Huguenots, the Anglicans and the dissenters from the Church of England called the non-conformists. Until the early 1700s, there was religious freedom in the colony. Continue Reading
History. Agriculture has been the base of South Carolinaâs economy since the settlement of the American colonies. The native Americans grew beans, pumpkins, onions, melons, and maize, and British colonists brought indigo, cotton, tobacco, ginger root, cattle and hogs. In 1685, rice was bought to South Carolina from Madagascar, and the commercial production of Carolina Gold rice took off from there.