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| | World Almanac for Kids |
 | | SOUTH CAROLINA, one of the South Atlantic states of the U.S., bordered on the N by North Carolina, on the E and SE by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the SW and W by Georgia. |
 | | South Carolina’s highest tribunal, the supreme court, is composed of five justices elected by the legislature to 10-year terms. |
 | | South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (Dec. 20, 1860), and the attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, on April 12, 1861, marked the beginning of the American Civil War. |
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