Question: The US abolished slavery without giving what to slave owners?
Answer: compensation

Question: When did white Democrats regain control of the state legislature?
Answer: 1870

Question: What did the KKK target with violence and terrorism at the polls?
Answer: black voting

Question: What political party was elected to the legislature and Governors office?
Answer: Democrats

Question: What political group attracted voters displeased with Democrats?
Answer: Populists

Question: What year did a biracial Populist fusion gain the Governors office?
Answer: 1896

Question: What year did the Democrats regain control of the governors office from the biracial Populists?
Answer: 1896

Question: In the 19th century, how many african american congressmen were elected?
Answer: four

Question: What did the NC state legislature pass in 1899?
Answer: a new constitution

Question: What type of taxes were required by the new NC constitution?
Answer: poll taxes

Question: What did the new constitution require for voter registration?
Answer: literacy tests

Question: Being excluded from doing what, made it so that black people could not serve on juries or in public office?
Answer: voting

Question: What year was the Federal Civil Rights Act?
Answer: 1964

Question: What political party Dominated NC after the confederacy?
Answer: Democratic

Question: What was the economy of North Carolina based on after the confederacy?
Answer: tobacco, cotton and agriculture

Question: When did a major industrial base appear in North Carolina?
Answer: late 19th century

Question: Where did the major industrial base appear in North Carolina?
Answer: western counties of the Piedmont

Question: What was the emergence of the industrial base of North carolina based on?
Answer: cotton mills

Question: What programs created by FDR helped North Carolina during the Great Depression?
Answer: New Deal programs

Question: Who did the new deal programs benefit?
Answer: farmers

Question: What crops was the New Deal Program made for?
Answer: cotton and tobacco

Question: After what war did the states economy improve?
Answer: World War II

Question: In the 1990's what NC city became a national banking center?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: What inhibited North Carolina for thousands of years?
Answer: prehistoric indigenous cultures

Question: Before 200 AD, people built what kind of mounds for religious purposes?
Answer: earthwork

Question: Who continued to build on to the religious mounds?
Answer: Succeeding peoples

Question: Before European contact, who built large cities and regional trading networks?
Answer: Mississippian culture

Question: What was the largest city in the Piedmont before European contact?
Answer: Cahokia

Question: In the 16th century, where did Spanish explorers meet Mississipian cultureal people?
Answer: Joara

Question: What is Joara?
Answer: a regional chiefdom

Question: Where would present day Joara be?
Answer: near present-day Morganton

Question: What was the name of the Spanish man that met the people in Joara?
Answer: Hernando de Soto

Question: What year did hernando de Soto arrive in Joara?
Answer: 1540

Question: Who is the North Carolina state capital named for?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh

Question: Who granted the charter for Sir Walter Raleigh to travel to present day North Carolina?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: What year did Elizabeth I grant the charter to Raleigh to travel to North Carolina?
Answer: 1584

Question: What was the second american territory the English attempted to colonize?
Answer: North Carolina

Question: How many colonies did Raleigh establish on the coast of carolina in 1580?
Answer: two

Question: In 1650, settlers from what colony moved in to Albemarie Sound?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What year did King Charles II grant a charter to North America?
Answer: 1663

Question: What did King Charles II's charter establish?
Answer: North Carolina's borders

Question: Carolina was named after King Charles iI's father, what was his name?
Answer: Charles I

Question: What year was a second charter made to establish the borders of Carolina?
Answer: 1665

Question: After the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to settle North Carolina?
Answer: English colonists

Question: Where did the English colonists that settle North carolina come from?
Answer: Virginia

Question: The English colonist  left virginia because of what issue with the land there?
Answer: less available

Question: Who was one of the first Virginian migrants to reach the carolinas?
Answer: Nathaniel Batts

Question: What year did Nathaniel Battes settle in North Carolina?
Answer: 1655

Question: Eastern North Carolina is also known as what?
Answer: Low Country

Question: Western North carolina is also known as what?
Answer: uplands

Question: Where was The Tidewater located?
Answer: eastern North Carolina

Question: Where did immigrants from England and the Scottish Highlands settle?
Answer: The Tidewater

Question: Who did the Tidewater settlers remain loyal to during the American revolution?
Answer: the British Crown

Question: Most English colonists arrived as what?
Answer: indentured servants

Question: Indentured servants hired theirselves out as what?
Answer: laborers

Question: What did the English settlers get in return for their labor?
Answer: passage

Question: Indentured servants were similar to what people in the early days?
Answer: African slaves

Question: As indentured servants improved the economy, there became a greater need to import more what?
Answer: slaves

Question: What year did North Carolina instruct its delegates to vote for independence?
Answer: 1776

Question: Who was north carolina seeking independence from in 1776?
Answer: the British Crown

Question: What year was Americas Victory at King's Mountain?
Answer: 1780

Question: How many North Carolina mountain men fought at King's Mountain?
Answer: 1000

Question: How many British troops fought at king's Mountain?
Answer: 1000

Question: Who met the British army as they moved north?
Answer: the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia

Question: Who lost the battle of Cowpens?
Answer: the British Cavalry

Question: Who led the British calvary at Cowpen?
Answer: Commander Banastre Tarleton

Question: What was the date of the battle of Cowpens?
Answer: January 17, 1781

Question: What is another name for the race to the Dan?
Answer: The Race for the River

Question: The Battle of Cowan's Ford was fought on the banks of what river?
Answer: Catawba

Question: What year was the battle of Cowans Ford?
Answer: 1781

Question: What is the present day name of the city that the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought at?
Answer: Greensboro

Question: After losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse, Cornawallis moved his troops where?
Answer: Virginia coastline

Question: What did Cornwallis move to the coastline after losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse?
Answer: to get reinforcements

Question: North Carolina was the twelth state to ratify what document?
Answer: the Constitution

Question: What date did North Carolina ratify the constitution?
Answer: November 21, 1789

Question: What year was the state capitol building of North Carolina completed?
Answer: 1840

Question: Where was the capitol building completed in 1840?
Answer: Raleigh

Question: What part of the state were most slave and plantation owners concentrated in?
Answer: eastern

Question: Some of the free people of color migrated from what state during the 18th century?
Answer: Virginia

Question: After the revolution Quakers and mennonited encouraged slaveholders to do what?
Answer: free their slaves

Question: What happened to the number of free colored people for the first few decades after the war?
Answer: rose

Question: What was the name of the railroad that began construction in 1836?
Answer: Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad