South Carolina was founded in 1663 by King Charles II of England who granted the land to eight proprietors to repay his debts. The state flower is the yellow jasmine and the state bird is the Carolina Wren. Some key facts about the colony include that the main crops were rice, tobacco and pine tar, the colony revolted in 1740 but was soon put down, and the colony was originally an English province established in Charleston in 1670 with Protestantism as the dominant religion.