History - North Carolina 2

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number 1 manufacturing industry

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Textile manufacturing

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NC is the nations leading _________ grower

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tobacco

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NC grows certain crops

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corn, cotton, peanuts, oats, soybeans

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#1 crop in US

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sweet potatoes

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#3 national crop

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cucumbers

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In 1999 what killed 51 people and flooded 57,000 homes.

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Hurricane Floyd

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Hottest temperature on record in Fayetteville

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110 degrees Fahrenheit

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lowest temperature on record in Mt. Mitchell

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-34 degrees Fahrenheit

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One of NC's largest problems

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transportation and the lay of the land

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beautiful geographic features

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mountains, rivers, hills, sand dunes

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the only river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean

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Cape Fear River

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ships couldn't travel up this river because it became shallow and ships couldn't turn around

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Cape Fear River

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Horse-drawn Raleigh Experimental Railroad

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NC's first railroad

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used to carry stone for Capital Building in Raleigh in 1833

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Raleigh Experimental Railroad

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1 out of every 6 people in NC is ____________

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school aged

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Every child is required to receive 9 months a year of this

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schooling

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Was the ____ state to join the Union on November 21, 1789

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12th

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NC elects a governor for a ____ year term

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4

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All judges are elected for ____ year term

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8

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NC has __ Representatives to the US House

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13

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Number of Representatives allow NC to send ___ people to elect the president of the United States

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15

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British soldiers came out of the river with blackened feet from tar that had been dumped

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Tar Heels

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State Motto

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Esse Quam Videri (To Be Rather Than to Seem)

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first recorded explorers of NC ______ and led by Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524

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were French

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made the first permanent settlements in NC

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English

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Our capital city and one of our bays are named after

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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First child born in the New World

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Virginia Dare

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first known permanent white settler in 1657

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Nathaniel Batts

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gentleman pirate, was a rich landowner who became a pirate

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Major Stede Bonnet

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King George bought most of NC and SC for how much?

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$45,000