<P> The white population of the Lowcountry was dominated by wealthy planters of English descent and indentured servants from southern and western England . The interior Carolina upcountry was settled later, largely in the 18th century by Ulster Scots immigrants arriving via Pennsylvania and Virginia, German Calvinists, French Huguenot refugees in the Piedmont and foothills as well as by working class English indentured servants who moved inland after completing their terms of service working on coastal plantations . Toward the end of the Colonial Period, the upcountry people were underrepresented politically and felt they were mistreated by the planter elite . In reaction, many took a Loyalist position when the Lowcountry planters complained of the new taxes, an issue that later contributed to the colony's support of the American Revolution . </P> <P> In North Carolina a short - lived colony was established near the mouth of the Cape Fear River . A ship was sent southward to explore the Port Royal, South Carolina area, where the French had established the short - lived Charlesfort post and the Spanish had built Santa Elena, the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587, until it was abandoned . Captain Robert Sanford made a visit with the friendly Edisto Indians . When the ship departed to return to Cape Fear, Dr. Henry Woodward stayed behind to study the interior and native Indians . </P> <P> In Bermuda, an 80 - year - old Puritan Bermudian colonist, Colonel William Sayle, was named governor of Carolina . On March 15, 1670, under Sayle (who sailed on a Bermuda sloop with a number of Bermudian families), they finally reached Port Royal . According to the account of one passenger, the Indians were friendly, made signs toward where they should land, and spoke broken Spanish . Spain still considered Carolina to be its land; the main Spanish base, St. Augustine, was not far away . The Spanish missionary provinces of Guale and Mocama occupied the coast south of the Savannah River and Port Royal . </P> <P> Though the Edisto Indians were not happy to have the English settle permanently, the chief of the Kiawah Indians, who lived farther north along the coast, arrived to invite the English to settle among his people and protect them from the Westo tribe, slave - raiding allies of Virginia . The sailors agreed and sailed for the region now called West Ashley . When they landed in early April at Albemarle Point on the shores of the Ashley River, they founded Charles Town, named in honor of their king . On May 23, Three Brothers arrived in Charles Town Bay without 11 or 12 passengers who had gone for water and supplies at St. Catherines Island, and had run into Indians allied with the Spanish . Of the hundreds of people who had sailed from England or Barbados, only 148 people, including three African slaves, lived to arrive at Charles Town Landing . </P>

Which of the following divided colonial society in south carolina during the 1700s