Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to explore the coastal regions of present-day South Carolina. In 1521, Francisco Gordillo sailed to the Carolina coast from his base in Santo Domingo; no settlement was attempted, but several dozen Native Americans were enslaved.
Five years later, Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón sponsored a short-lived effort to settle several hundred persons in the Winyah Bay area (near present-day Myrtle Beach), but unfavorable weather and sickness soon forced a return to Santo Domingo. Nonetheless, later in the 1500s the Spanish established new bases in Florida and spread northward with a string of small settlements.
The French presence was established in 1562 when Jean Ribault brought a group of French Huguenots to Parris Island, but Spanish power in the area rendered the colony untenable.
The English claim to the area arrived with the 1497 voyage of John Cabot, but efforts to colonize did not occur for more than 130 years. In 1629, a grant was awarded to Sir Robert Heath, which included today's North and South Carolina and all land westward to the Pacific Ocean. No settlement activity took place under Heath and in 1663, the lands were granted to eight of Charles II's most loyal supporters, the "lords proprietors."
Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, assisted by the political philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), an intricate and romanticized feudal scheme that was further burdened by the recommended use of grandiose titles for the nobles and their retainers. Whether or not the cumbersome system was seriously intended to be implemented or was simply a means to appeal to the high-born settlers' vanity is not clear.
According to the "fill in the blanks" basis, the definition that would work best for this answer is the one that deals with "legal", keeping in mind that statistics are not up to be absolutely true as they do not cover the whole situation when talking about specific matters, or they fall in the total opposite, assuming a matter as if it was entirely absolute and standardized.
The correct option is A: The country was in recession.
<u>EXPLANATION:</u>
When Obama became the president in 2009, the country was in great recession and financial crisis. Obama's main challenge was to fight and do away with the recession of 2008 that had hit the country hard.
Obama was successful in fighting this recession. He not only announced an economic stimulus package for the country but also cut taxes and funded public works.
By investing in the country, Obama was able to get the country out of recession in a few years.
