<P> The main source of wealth during the late - colonial period was the export of rice, deerskins and, by the 1760s, indigo . Sea Island cotton, produced on large plantations off the coast, was also highly profitable . </P> <P> Although Governor Francis Nicholson attempted to pacify the Cherokee with gifts, they had grown discontented with the arrangements . Sir Alexander Cuming negotiated with them to open some land for settlement in 1730 . Because Governor James Glen stepped in to bring peace between the Creek people and Cherokee, who were traditional enemies, the Cherokee rewarded him by granting South Carolina a few thousand acres of land near their major Lower Town of Keowee . In 1753, the Carolinians built Fort Prince George as a British outpost and trading center near the Keowee River . Two years later Old Hop, an important Cherokee chief, made a treaty with Glen at Saluda Old Town, midway between Charles Town and Keowee. Old Hop gave the Carolinians the 96th District, a region that included parts of ten currently separate counties . </P> <P> From 1755 to 1758, Cherokee warriors served as British allies in campaigns along the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier . Returning homeward, they were killed by Virginia frontiersmen . In 1759, the Cherokee avenged these killings and began attacking white settlers in the southern colonial Upcountry . South Carolina's Governor William Henry Lyttelton raised an army of 1,100 men and marched on the Lower Towns, which quickly agreed to peace . As part of the peace terms, two dozen Cherokee chiefs were imprisoned as hostages in Fort Prince George . Lyttelton returned to Charles Town, but the Cherokee continued raiding the frontier . In February 1760, the Cherokee attacked Fort Prince George trying to rescue the hostages . In the battle, the fort's commander was killed . His replacement quickly ordered the execution of the hostages, then fought off the Cherokee assault . </P> <P> Unable to put down the rebellion, Governor Lyttelton appealed to Jeffrey Amherst, who sent Archibald Montgomery with an army of 1,200 British regulars and Scots Highlanders . Montgomery's army burned a few of the Cherokees' abandoned Lower Towns . When he tried to cross into the region of the Cherokee Middle Towns, he was ambushed and defeated at "Etchoe Pass" and forced to return to Charles Town . In 1761, the British made a third attempt to defeat the Cherokee . General Grant led an army of 2,600 men, including Catawba scouts . The Cherokee fought at Etchoe Pass but failed to stop Grant's army . The British burned the Cherokee Middle Towns and fields of crops . </P>

Which of the following divided colonial society in south carolina