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=﻿ **North Carolina**=

Who, when, and why did they found North Carolina?

 * North Carolina was founded in 1653 by a group of proprieters. They founded North Carolina because the proprietors wanted profit and trade. North Carolina is on the east coast of what is now the United States of America and has many rivers including Pee Dee river. Here are some North Carolina facts and characteristics.**

Farming, trading, and characteristics.

 * - The coast has many islands.**
 * -Weather is warm and fit for farming.**
 * - Roanoke was in North Carolina.**
 * -North Carolina was 12th of the 13th colonies.**
 * -North Carolina has the Appalachian Mountains.**
 * North Carolina has warm weather and often grew lots of tabacco, rice, and indingo. They also traded the tabacco, rice, and indigo often for larger things from the other colonies that North Carolia that they don't grow or make. Many more products are grown in North America including berries, clay, corn, cotton, dairy products, fish, forest products, fruit, grapes, hay, hogs, nursery products, oyster, peanuts, peacans, potatoes, poultry, soybeans, stone, sweet potatoes, tabacco, vegetables, and wheat. North Carolina had slaves for their work, fields, and farms. Roanoke is a important place of North Carolina.**

Important people, living conditions.

 * The first governer or major leader is Edward B. Dudley and Richard Caswell wrote the first constitution, 1776. Roanoke is a important place of North Carolina.** **North Carolina's colonists lived in houses made of logs with a branch top as a roof. Inside of the houses are normally 1 tabe with bunk bed made of thick wood. Raliegh was named capital in 1792, and Virginia Dare was the first british baby born in North America on August 18, 1587. The Tascarora war began in 1712 abd lasted two years. The state flower is the flowering dogwood, and the area of North Carolina is 48,718 sguare miles. The colonies often caught fish on the east coast and smoked over a fire. North Carolina secedes from the Union in the Civil War and joined the Cefederacy.**