Geography of South America Great American Interchange. The Andes, likewise a comparatively young and seismically restless mountain range, runs down the western edge of the continent; the land to the east of the northern Andes is largely tropical rain forest, the vast Amazon River basin. The continent also contains drier regions such as eastern Patagonia and the extremely arid Atacama desert. The South American continent also includes various islands, most of which belong to countries on the continent. The Caribbean territories are grouped with North America. The South American nations that border the Caribbean Sea—including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana—are also known
South Carolina in the American Revolution the state as they controlled three-quarters of South Carolina's wealth, much of it in enslaved African Americans. During the 1780s, Charleston physician David Ramsay published two of the first histories of the American Revolution: "The History of the Revolution of South-Carolina" (1785) and "The History of the American Revolution" (1789). South Carolina in the American Revolution South Carolina was outraged over British tax policies in the 1760s that violated what they saw as their constitutional right to "no taxation without representation". Merchants joined the boycott against buying British products. When the London government harshly punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea