North_Carolina

qas: question: How many main geographical sections make up North Carolina?
answers: text: three

question: What section of North carolina makes up 45% of the state?
answers: text: Atlantic Coastal Plain

question: What is the section in the middle 35% of North Carolina called?
answers: text: the Piedmont region

question: Tha Appalacian mountains and foothills make up a region of what state?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: The extreme eastern section of North Carolina is called what?
answers: text: Outer Banks
context: North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills. The extreme eastern section of the state contains the Outer Banks, a string of sandy, narrow barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and two inland waterways or "sounds": Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south. They are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States.

qas: question: What do you call the line that marks the elevation that waterfalls first appear on rivers?
answers: text: Atlantic Seaboard fall line

question: At what point does the coastal plin transition to the Piedmont region?
answers: text: along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line

question: What section of Central North Carolina has the most dense population?
answers: text: The Piedmont region

question: Pilot Mountain and South Mountains are located in what region of North Carolina?
answers: text: Piedmont

question: What is the average elevation in the west Piedmont region?
answers: text: 1,000 feet
context: The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the state's most urbanized and densely populated section. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. Small, isolated, and deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Sauratown Mountains, Pilot Mountain, the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowder's Mountain, King's Pinnacle, the Brushy Mountains, and the South Mountains. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) in elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. Because of the rapid population growth in the Piedmont, a significant part of the rural area in this region is being transformed into suburbs with shopping centers, housing, and corporate offices. Agriculture is steadily declining in importance. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin and Catawba, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.

qas: question: The weatern part of North Carolina is part of what mountain range?
answers: text: Appalachian Mountain range

question: The Great Smokey Mountains and the Black Moutains are subranges of what mountains?
answers: text: Appalachians

question: What mountains are the highest in the eastern United States?
answers: text: The Black Mountains

question: What is the name of the highest point east of the Mississippi river?
answers: text: Mount Mitchell

question: How high is Mt. Mitchell?
answers: text: 6,684 feet
context: The western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Balsam Mountains, and Black Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m) the highest point east of the Mississippi River. Although agriculture still remains important, tourism has become a dominant industry in the mountains. Growing Christmas trees has recently become an important industry as well. Because of the higher altitude, the climate in the mountains often differs markedly from that of the rest of the state. Winter in western North Carolina typically features high snowfall and subfreezing temperatures more akin to those of a midwestern state than of a southern state.

qas: question: What ocean influinces the climate of North Carolinas coastal plain?
answers: text: Atlantic

question: What is the climate of the coastal plain in the winter?
answers: text: mild

question: What is the climate of North Carolinas coastal plain in the summer?
answers: text: moderate, although humid

question: What is the average high North Carolina coastal temperature on the plains in the summer?
answers: text: 89 °F

question: How often do temperatures on the coastal plain of NC drop below freezing at night?
answers: text: occasionally
context: The climate of the coastal plain is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, which keeps conditions mild in winter and moderate, although humid, in summer. The highest coastal, daytime temperature averages less than 89 °F (32 °C) during summer months. The coast has mild temperatures in winter, with daytime highs rarely below 40 °F (4 °C). The average daytime temperature in the coastal plain is usually in the mid-50s °F (11–14 °C) in winter. Temperatures in the coastal plain only occasionally drop below the freezing point at night. The coastal plain averages only around 1 inch (2.5 cm) of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all.

qas: question: What region of North Carolina has hotter summers and colder winters than the coast?
answers: text: Piedmont

question: In summer, daytime highs often reach what temperature in the Piedmont region?
answers: text: 90 °F

question: Temperatures over 100 degrees will typically be found in what elevation of the Piedmont?
answers: text: .

question: What type of influence of the Atlantic Ocean makes the temperatures fluctuate more than on the coast?
answers: text: weaker
context: The Atlantic Ocean has less influence on the climate of the Piedmont region, which has hotter summers and colder winters than in the coast. Daytime highs in the Piedmont often reach over 90 °F (32 °C) in the summer. While it is not common for the temperature to reach over 100 °F (38 °C) in the state, such temperatures, when they occur, typically are found only in the lower-elevation areas of the Piedmont and far-inland areas of the coastal plain. The weaker influence of the Atlantic Ocean also means that temperatures in the Piedmont often fluctuate more widely than in the coast.

qas: question: The Piedmont is colder than the coast in what season?
answers: text: winter

question: What is the average winter daytime temperature in the Piedmont?
answers: text: upper 40s–lower 50s °F

question: What do the temperatures often drop to at night in the piedmont region in the winter?
answers: text: below the freezing point

question: What is the average snowfall per year in Charlotte?
answers: text: 3–5 in

question: What type of precipitation is the Piedmont known for?
answers: text: sleet and freezing rain
context: In winter, the Piedmont is colder than the coast, with temperatures usually averaging in the upper 40s–lower 50s °F (8–12 °C) during the day and often dropping below the freezing point at night. The region averages around 3–5 in (8–13 cm) of snowfall annually in the Charlotte area, and slightly more north toward the Virginia border. The Piedmont is especially notorious for sleet and freezing rain. Freezing rain can be heavy enough to snarl traffic and break down trees and power lines. Annual precipitation and humidity are lower in the Piedmont than in the mountains or the coast, but even at its lowest, the average is 40 in (1,020 mm) per year.

qas: question: What mountain range makes up the coolest part of North Carolina?
answers: text: The Appalachian Mountains

question: What are the average high winter temperatures in the Appalachians?
answers: text: low 40s and upper 30s °F

question: What are the low winter temperatures in the Appalachians?
answers: text: low 20s °F (−5 °C) or lower

question: Temperatures rarely go higher than what temperature in the Appalachians?
answers: text: 80 °F

question: Average snowfall in the Appalachians can exceed how many inches?
answers: text: 30
context: The Appalachian Mountains are the coolest area of the state, with temperatures averaging in the low 40s and upper 30s °F (6–3 °C) for highs in the winter and falling into the low 20s °F (−5 °C) or lower on winter nights. Relatively cool summers have temperatures rarely rising above 80 °F (27 °C). Average snowfall in many areas exceeds 30 in (76 cm) per year, and can be heavy at the higher elevations; for example, during the Blizzard of 1993 more than 60 in (152 cm) of snow fell on Mount Mitchell over a period of three days. Mount Mitchell has received snow in every month of the year.

qas: question: Hoe often do hurricanes hit North Carolina?
answers: text: once a decade

question: Floyd, Fran, and Hazel are examples of what that hit the state of North Carolina?
answers: text: hurricanes

question: What was the strongest storm to make landfall in North Carolina?
answers: text: Hurricane Hazel

question: What category of hurricane was Hazel?
answers: text: 4

question: What year did Hurrican Hazel hit North Carolina?
answers: text: 1954
context: Severe weather occurs regularly in North Carolina. On the average, a hurricane hits the state once a decade. Destructive hurricanes that have struck the state include Hurricane Fran, Hurricane Floyd, and Hurricane Hazel, the strongest storm to make landfall in the state, as a Category 4 in 1954. Hurricane Isabel stands out as the most damaging of the 21st century. Tropical storms arrive every 3 or 4 years. In addition, many hurricanes and tropical storms graze the state. In some years, several hurricanes or tropical storms can directly strike the state or brush across the coastal areas. Only Florida and Louisiana are hit by hurricanes more often. Although many people believe that hurricanes menace only coastal areas, the rare hurricane which moves inland quickly enough can cause severe damage; for example, in 1989, Hurricane Hugo caused heavy damage in Charlotte and even as far inland as the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state. On the average, North Carolina has 50 days of thunderstorm activity per year, with some storms becoming severe enough to produce hail, flash floods, and damaging winds.

qas: question: How many tornadoes does North Carolina have per year?
answers: text: fewer than 20

question: Houuricanes and tropical stors can produce what across the coastal plain?
answers: text: tornadoes

question: What part of the state holds the highest risk for tornadoes?
answers: text: eastern

question: What protects the western piedmont from tornadoes?
answers: text: mountains

question: What weather phenomenom can weaken storms but cause major ice events in NW North Carolina?
answers: text: cold air damming
context: North Carolina averages fewer than 20 tornadoes per year, many of them produced by hurricanes or tropical storms along the coastal plain. Tornadoes from thunderstorms are a risk, especially in the eastern part of the state. The western Piedmont is often protected by the mountains, which tend to break up storms as they try to cross over; the storms will often re-form farther east. Also a weather phenomenon known as "cold air damming" often occurs in the northwestern part of the state, which can also weaken storms but can also lead to major ice events in winter.

qas: question: During what time period did people buid earth mounds used for religious and ceremonial purposes?
answers: text: Before A.D. 200

question: By 1000 AD, what culture of people settled in the Piedmont?
answers: text: ancient Mississippian culture

question: About how many years before European contact did ancient Mississippian culture build large cities?
answers: text: 500–700 years

question: Pamlico and Cape fear indians are examples of what?
answers: text: Algonquian-speaking tribes

question: Where did the Algonquin speaking tribes of North Carolina live?
answers: text: the coastal areas
context: Before A.D. 200, residents were building earthwork mounds, which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by A.D. 1000 in the Piedmont, continued to build or add onto such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks. Historically documented tribes in the North Carolina region included the Carolina Algonquian-speaking tribes of the coastal areas, such as the Chowanoke, Roanoke, Pamlico, Machapunga, Coree, Cape Fear Indians, and others, who were the first to encounter the English; Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin, Cherokee and Tuscarora of the interior; and Southeastern Siouan tribes, such as the Cheraw, Waxhaw, Saponi, Waccamaw, and Catawba.[citation needed]

qas: question: What was another name for Blackbeard?
answers: text: Edward Teach

question: What was the name of blackbeards ship?
answers: text: the Queen Anne's Revenge

question: Where in North Carolina did Blackbeards ship crash?
answers: text: Beaufort Inlet

question: What year did Blackbeard run his ship aground in North Carolina?
answers: text: 1718

question: What year were the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge discovered?
answers: text: 1996
context: In June 1718 Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, ran his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in present-day Carteret County. After the grounding her crew and supplies were transferred to smaller ships. In 1996 Intersal, Inc., a private firm, discovered the remains of a vessel likely to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was added to the US National Register of Historic Places. In November, after losing his ship and appealing to the governor of North Carolina who promised safe-haven and a pardon, the notorious pirate, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was killed in an ambush by troops from Virginia.

qas: question: North carolina and Sounth Carolina together were known as what?
answers: text: the Province of Carolina

question: What year were the northern and southern carolinas seperated?
answers: text: 1729

question: What was the profession of most of the settlers in the Province of Carolina?
answers: text: small farmers

question: What people were a menace to the coastal areas of the Province of carolina?
answers: text: Pirates

question: By what year had all of the pirates in the NC Province been captured or killed?
answers: text: 1718
context: North Carolina became one of the English Thirteen Colonies and with the territory of South Carolina was originally known as the Province of Carolina. The northern and southern parts of the original province separated in 1729. Originally settled by small farmers, sometimes having a few slaves, who were oriented toward subsistence agriculture, the colony lacked cities or towns. Pirates menaced the coastal settlements, but by 1718 the pirates had been captured and killed. Growth was strong in the middle of the 18th century, as the economy attracted Scots-Irish, Quaker, English and German immigrants. The colonists generally supported the American Revolution, as the number of Loyalists was smaller than in some other colonies.

qas: question: What was the state capital of North Carolina in 1722?
answers: text: Edenton

question: What city became the capital of North Carolina in 1766?
answers: text: New Bern

question: Who was the governor of North carolina in 1767?
answers: text: William Tryon

question: What was the name of the offices and residence built for William Tryon?
answers: text: Tryon Palace

question: What central North carolina cuty was chosen for the capital in 1788?
answers: text: Raleigh
context: During colonial times, Edenton served as the state capital beginning in 1722, and New Bern was selected as the capital in 1766. Construction of Tryon Palace, which served as the residence and offices of the provincial governor William Tryon, began in 1767 and was completed in 1771. In 1788 Raleigh was chosen as the site of the new capital, as its central location protected it from attacks from the coast. Officially established in 1792 as both county seat and state capital, the city was named after Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of Roanoke, the "lost colony" on Roanoke Island.

qas: question: What state made the smallest contribution to the revolutionary war of any state?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: How many men from NC joined the continental army?
answers: text: 7,800

question: Who led the continental army?
answers: text: General George Washington

question: What years were the highest concentration of military action in NC during the revolutionary war?
answers: text: 1780–81

question: Frontiersmen from the Carolinas moved west into what area that is now known as Tennessee?
answers: text: Washington District
context: North Carolina made the smallest per-capita contribution to the war of any state, as only 7,800 men joined the Continental Army under General George Washington; an additional 10,000 served in local militia units under such leaders as General Nathanael Greene. There was some military action, especially in 1780–81. Many Carolinian frontiersmen had moved west over the mountains, into the Washington District (later known as Tennessee), but in 1789, following the Revolution, the state was persuaded to relinquish its claim to the western lands. It ceded them to the national government so that the Northwest Territory could be organized and managed nationally.

qas: question: After what year did cotton and tobacco become important crops in North Carolina?
answers: text: After 1800

question: The Tidewater region was in what half of North Carolina?
answers: text: eastern

question: What region of North Carolina used slave labor and developed a slave society?
answers: text: the Tidewater region

question: Where did free black people migrate to because of the looser social system?
answers: text: the frontier

question: By 1810, what percentage of the free population was black?
answers: text: 3
context: After 1800, cotton and tobacco became important export crops. The eastern half of the state, especially the Tidewater region, developed a slave society based on a plantation system and slave labor. Many free people of color migrated to the frontier along with their European-American neighbors, where the social system was looser. By 1810, nearly 3 percent of the free population consisted of free people of color, who numbered slightly more than 10,000. The western areas were dominated by white families, especially Scots-Irish, who operated small subsistence farms. In the early national period, the state became a center of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, with a strong Whig presence, especially in the West. After Nat Turner's slave uprising in 1831, North Carolina and other southern states reduced the rights of free blacks. In 1835 the legislature withdrew their right to vote.

qas: question: What year was the confederacy defeated?
answers: text: 1865

question: What Era began following the defeat of the confederacy?
answers: text: Reconstruction Era

question: The US abolished slavery without giving what to slave owners?
answers: text: compensation

question: When did white Democrats regain control of the state legislature?
answers: text: 1870

question: What did the KKK target with violence and terrorism at the polls?
answers: text: black voting
context: With the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, the Reconstruction Era began. The United States abolished slavery without compensation to slaveholders or reparations to freedmen. A Republican Party coalition of black freedmen, northern carpetbaggers and local scalawags controlled state government for three years. The white conservative Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1870, in part by Ku Klux Klan violence and terrorism at the polls, to suppress black voting. Republicans were elected to the governorship until 1876, when the Red Shirts, a paramilitary organization that arose in 1874 and was allied with the Democratic Party, helped suppress black voting. More than 150 black Americans were murdered in electoral violence in 1876.

qas: question: What political party was elected to the legislature and Governors office?
answers: text: Democrats

question: What political group attracted voters displeased with Democrats?
answers: text: Populists

question: What year did a biracial Populist fusion gain the Governors office?
answers: text: 1896

question: What year did the Democrats regain control of the governors office from the biracial Populists?
answers: text: 1896

question: In the 19th century, how many african american congressmen were elected?
answers: text: four
context: Democrats were elected to the legislature and governor's office, but the Populists attracted voters displeased with them. In 1896 a biracial, Populist-Republican Fusionist coalition gained the governor's office. The Democrats regained control of the legislature in 1896 and passed laws to impose Jim Crow and racial segregation of public facilities. Voters of North Carolina's 2nd congressional district elected a total of four African-American congressmen through these years of the late 19th century.

qas: question: What did the NC state legislature pass in 1899?
answers: text: a new constitution

question: What type of taxes were required by the new NC constitution?
answers: text: poll taxes

question: What did the new constitution require for voter registration?
answers: text: literacy tests

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

question: What year was the Federal Civil Rights Act?
answers: text: 1964
context: In 1899 the state legislature passed a new constitution, with requirements for poll taxes and literacy tests for voter registration which disfranchised most black Americans in the state. Exclusion from voting had wide effects: it meant that black Americans could not serve on juries or in any local office. After a decade of white supremacy, many people forgot that North Carolina had ever had thriving middle-class black Americans. Black citizens had no political voice in the state until after the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed to enforce their constitutional rights. It was not until 1992 that another African American was elected as a US Representative from North Carolina.

qas: question: What political party Dominated NC after the confederacy?
answers: text: Democratic

question: What was the economy of North Carolina based on after the confederacy?
answers: text: tobacco, cotton and agriculture

question: When did a major industrial base appear in North Carolina?
answers: text: late 19th century

question: Where did the major industrial base appear in North Carolina?
answers: text: western counties of the Piedmont

question: What was the emergence of the industrial base of North carolina based on?
answers: text: cotton mills
context: As in the rest of the former Confederacy, North Carolina had become a one-party state, dominated by the Democratic Party. Impoverished by the Civil War, the state continued with an economy based on tobacco, cotton and agriculture. Towns and cities remained few in the east. A major industrial base emerged in the late 19th century in the western counties of the Piedmont, based on cotton mills established at the fall line. Railroads were built to connect the new industrializing cities. The state was the site of the first successful controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, by the Wright brothers, near Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. In the first half of the 20th century, many African Americans left the state to go North for better opportunities, in the Great Migration. Their departure changed the demographic characteristics of many areas.

qas: question: What programs created by FDR helped North Carolina during the Great Depression?
answers: text: New Deal programs

question: Who did the new deal programs benefit?
answers: text: farmers

question: What crops was the New Deal Program made for?
answers: text: cotton and tobacco

question: After what war did the states economy improve?
answers: text: World War II

question: In the 1990's what NC city became a national banking center?
answers: text: Charlotte
context: North Carolina was hard hit by the Great Depression, but the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt for cotton and tobacco significantly helped the farmers. After World War II, the state's economy grew rapidly, highlighted by the growth of such cities as Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham in the Piedmont. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill form the Research Triangle, a major area of universities and advanced scientific and technical research. In the 1990s, Charlotte became a major regional and national banking center. Tourism has also been a boon for the North Carolina economy as people flock to the Outer Banks coastal area and the Appalachian Mountains anchored by Asheville.

qas: question: What inhibited North Carolina for thousands of years?
answers: text: prehistoric indigenous cultures

question: Before 200 AD, people built what kind of mounds for religious purposes?
answers: text: earthwork

question: Who continued to build on to the religious mounds?
answers: text: Succeeding peoples

question: Before European contact, who built large cities and regional trading networks?
answers: text: Mississippian culture

question: What was the largest city in the Piedmont before European contact?
answers: text: Cahokia
context: North Carolina was inhabited for thousands of years by succeeding cultures of prehistoric indigenous cultures. Before 200 AD, they were building earthwork mounds, which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by 1000 AD in the Piedmont, continued to build or add on to such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks. Its largest city was Cahokia, located in present-day Illinois near the Mississippi River.

qas: question: In the 16th century, where did Spanish explorers meet Mississipian cultureal people?
answers: text: Joara

question: What is Joara?
answers: text: a regional chiefdom

question: Where would present day Joara be?
answers: text: near present-day Morganton

question: What was the name of the Spanish man that met the people in Joara?
answers: text: Hernando de Soto

question: What year did hernando de Soto arrive in Joara?
answers: text: 1540
context: Spanish explorers traveling inland in the 16th century met Mississippian culture people at Joara, a regional chiefdom near present-day Morganton. Records of Hernando de Soto attested to his meeting with them in 1540. In 1567 Captain Juan Pardo led an expedition to claim the area for the Spanish colony and to establish another route to protect silver mines in Mexico. Pardo made a winter base at Joara, which he renamed Cuenca. His expedition built Fort San Juan and left a contingent of 30 men there, while Pardo traveled further, and built and garrisoned five other forts. He returned by a different route to Santa Elena on Parris Island, South Carolina, then a center of Spanish Florida. In the spring of 1568, natives killed all but one of the soldiers and burned the six forts in the interior, including the one at Fort San Juan. Although the Spanish never returned to the interior, this effort marked the first European attempt at colonization of the interior of what became the United States. A 16th-century journal by Pardo's scribe Bandera and archaeological findings since 1986 at Joara have confirmed the settlement.

qas: question: Who is the North Carolina state capital named for?
answers: text: Sir Walter Raleigh

question: Who granted the charter for Sir Walter Raleigh to travel to present day North Carolina?
answers: text: Elizabeth I

question: What year did Elizabeth I grant the charter to Raleigh to travel to North Carolina?
answers: text: 1584

question: What was the second american territory the English attempted to colonize?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: How many colonies did Raleigh establish on the coast of carolina in 1580?
answers: text: two
context: In 1584, Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, for land in present-day North Carolina (then part of the territory of Virginia). It was the second American territory which the English attempted to colonize. Raleigh established two colonies on the coast in the late 1580s, but both failed. The fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island remains one of the most widely debated mysteries of American history. Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, was born on Roanoke Island on August 18, 1587; Dare County is named for her.

qas: question: In 1650, settlers from what colony moved in to Albemarie Sound?
answers: text: Virginia

question: What year did King Charles II grant a charter to North America?
answers: text: 1663

question: What did King Charles II's charter establish?
answers: text: North Carolina's borders

question: Carolina was named after King Charles iI's father, what was his name?
answers: text: Charles I

question: What year was a second charter made to establish the borders of Carolina?
answers: text: 1665
context: As early as 1650, settlers from the Virginia colony moved into the area of Albemarle Sound. By 1663, King Charles II of England granted a charter to start a new colony on the North American continent; it generally established North Carolina's borders. He named it Carolina in honor of his father Charles I. By 1665, a second charter was issued to attempt to resolve territorial questions. In 1710, owing to disputes over governance, the Carolina colony began to split into North Carolina and South Carolina. The latter became a crown colony in 1729.

qas: question: After the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to settle North Carolina?
answers: text: English colonists

question: Where did the English colonists that settle North carolina come from?
answers: text: Virginia

question: The English colonist  left virginia because of what issue with the land there?
answers: text: less available

question: Who was one of the first Virginian migrants to reach the carolinas?
answers: text: Nathaniel Batts

question: What year did Nathaniel Battes settle in North Carolina?
answers: text: 1655
context: After the Spanish in the 16th century, the first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were English colonists who migrated south from Virginia. The latter had grown rapidly and land was less available. Nathaniel Batts was documented as one of the first of these Virginian migrants. He settled south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was undergoing full-scale English settlement. During the same period, the English monarch Charles II gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I (Latin: Carolus). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. Except for the Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony seventeen years later. A large revolt happened in the state in 1711 known as Cary's Rebellion.

qas: question: Eastern North Carolina is also known as what?
answers: text: Low Country

question: Western North carolina is also known as what?
answers: text: uplands

question: Where was The Tidewater located?
answers: text: eastern North Carolina

question: Where did immigrants from England and the Scottish Highlands settle?
answers: text: The Tidewater

question: Who did the Tidewater settlers remain loyal to during the American revolution?
answers: text: the British Crown
context: Differences in the settlement patterns of eastern and western North Carolina, or the Low Country and uplands, affected the political, economic, and social life of the state from the 18th until the 20th century. The Tidewater in eastern North Carolina was settled chiefly by immigrants from rural England and the Scottish Highlands. The upcountry of western North Carolina was settled chiefly by Scots-Irish, English, and German Protestants, the so-called "cohee". Arriving during the mid- to late 18th century, the Scots-Irish from what is today Northern Ireland were the largest non-English immigrant group before the Revolution; English indentured servants were overwhelmingly the largest immigrant group before the Revolution. During the American Revolutionary War, the English and Highland Scots of eastern North Carolina tended to remain loyal to the British Crown, because of longstanding business and personal connections with Great Britain. The English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, and German settlers of western North Carolina tended to favor American independence from Britain.

qas: question: Most English colonists arrived as what?
answers: text: indentured servants

question: Indentured servants hired theirselves out as what?
answers: text: laborers

question: What did the English settlers get in return for their labor?
answers: text: passage

question: Indentured servants were similar to what people in the early days?
answers: text: African slaves

question: As indentured servants improved the economy, there became a greater need to import more what?
answers: text: slaves
context: Most of the English colonists had arrived as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage. In the early years the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid. Some Africans were allowed to earn their freedom before slavery became a lifelong status. Most of the free colored families formed in North Carolina before the Revolution were descended from unions or marriages between free white women and enslaved or free African or African-American men. Because the mothers were free, their children were born free. Many had migrated or were descendants of migrants from colonial Virginia. As the flow of indentured laborers to the colony decreased with improving economic conditions in Great Britain, planters imported more slaves, and the state's legal delineations between free and slave status tightened, effectively hardening the latter into a racial caste. The economy's growth and prosperity was based on slave labor, devoted first to the production of tobacco.

qas: question: What year did North Carolina instruct its delegates to vote for independence?
answers: text: 1776

question: Who was north carolina seeking independence from in 1776?
answers: text: the British Crown

question: What year was Americas Victory at King's Mountain?
answers: text: 1780

question: How many North Carolina mountain men fought at King's Mountain?
answers: text: 1000

question: How many British troops fought at king's Mountain?
answers: text: 1000
context: On April 12, 1776, the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British Crown, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The dates of both of these events are memorialized on the state flag and state seal. Throughout the Revolutionary War, fierce guerrilla warfare erupted between bands of pro-independence and pro-British colonists. In some cases the war was also an excuse to settle private grudges and rivalries. A major American victory in the war took place at King's Mountain along the North Carolina–South Carolina border; on October 7, 1780, a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina (including what is today the state of Tennessee)and Southwest Virginia overwhelmed a force of some 1000 British troops led by Major Patrick Ferguson. Most of the soldiers fighting for the British side in this battle were Carolinians who had remained loyal to the Crown (they were called "Tories" or Loyalists). The American victory at Kings Mountain gave the advantage to colonists who favored American independence, and it prevented the British Army from recruiting new soldiers from the Tories.

qas: question: Who met the British army as they moved north?
answers: text: the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia

question: Who lost the battle of Cowpens?
answers: text: the British Cavalry

question: Who led the British calvary at Cowpen?
answers: text: Commander Banastre Tarleton

question: What was the date of the battle of Cowpens?
answers: text: January 17, 1781

question: What is another name for the race to the Dan?
answers: text: The Race for the River
context: The road to Yorktown and America's independence from Great Britain led through North Carolina. As the British Army moved north from victories in Charleston and Camden, South Carolina, the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from the latter's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."

qas: question: The Battle of Cowan's Ford was fought on the banks of what river?
answers: text: Catawba

question: What year was the battle of Cowans Ford?
answers: text: 1781

question: What is the present day name of the city that the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought at?
answers: text: Greensboro

question: After losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse, Cornawallis moved his troops where?
answers: text: Virginia coastline

question: What did Cornwallis move to the coastline after losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse?
answers: text: to get reinforcements
context: In the Battle of Cowan's Ford, Cornwallis met resistance along the banks of the Catawba River at Cowan's Ford on February 1, 1781, in an attempt to engage General Morgan's forces during a tactical withdrawal. Morgan had moved to the northern part of the state to combine with General Greene's newly recruited forces. Generals Greene and Cornwallis finally met at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in present-day Greensboro on March 15, 1781. Although the British troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior Continental Army were crippling. Following this "Pyrrhic victory", Cornwallis chose to move to the Virginia coastline to get reinforcements, and to allow the Royal Navy to protect his battered army. This decision would result in Cornwallis' eventual defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, later in 1781. The Patriots' victory there guaranteed American independence.

qas: question: North Carolina was the twelth state to ratify what document?
answers: text: the Constitution

question: What date did North Carolina ratify the constitution?
answers: text: November 21, 1789

question: What year was the state capitol building of North Carolina completed?
answers: text: 1840

question: Where was the capitol building completed in 1840?
answers: text: Raleigh

question: What part of the state were most slave and plantation owners concentrated in?
answers: text: eastern
context: On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. Most of North Carolina's slave owners and large plantations were located in the eastern portion of the state. Although North Carolina's plantation system was smaller and less cohesive than that of Virginia, Georgia, or South Carolina, significant numbers of planters were concentrated in the counties around the port cities of Wilmington and Edenton, as well as suburban planters around the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham in the Piedmont. Planters owning large estates wielded significant political and socio-economic power in antebellum North Carolina, which was a slave society. They placed their interests above those of the generally non-slave-holding "yeoman" farmers of western North Carolina. In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129-mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer's railroad", from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston-Salem).

qas: question: Some of the free people of color migrated from what state during the 18th century?
answers: text: Virginia

question: After the revolution Quakers and mennonited encouraged slaveholders to do what?
answers: text: free their slaves

question: What happened to the number of free colored people for the first few decades after the war?
answers: text: rose
context: Besides slaves, there were a number of free people of color in the state. Most were descended from free African Americans who had migrated along with neighbors from Virginia during the 18th century. The majority were the descendants of unions in the working classes between white women, indentured servants or free, and African men, indentured, slave or free. After the Revolution, Quakers and Mennonites worked to persuade slaveholders to free their slaves. Some were inspired by their efforts and the language of the Revolution to arrange for manumission of their slaves. The number of free people of color rose markedly in the first couple of decades after the Revolution.

qas: question: What was the name of the railroad that began construction in 1836?
answers: text: Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad

question: The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad was going to connect Wilmington to what city?
answers: text: Raleigh

question: In 1849, what railroad was created?
answers: text: North Carolina Railroad

question: What direction did the North carolina railroad extend?
answers: text: west

question: What stretch of the railroad was vital to the confederates in the civil war?
answers: text: Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch
context: On October 25, 1836, construction began on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad to connect the port city of Wilmington with the state capital of Raleigh. In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, High Point, and Charlotte. During the Civil War, the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Confederate war effort; supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

qas: question: In 1860, what percent of the North Carolina population were slaves?
answers: text: 33

question: Where were most of the slaves in North Carolina located?
answers: text: eastern Tidewater

question: What type of land did the slaves live on?
answers: text: plantations

question: How many free people of color lived in NC in 1860?
answers: text: 30,463

question: Where were the free people of color located in north carolina in 1860?
answers: text: eastern coastal plain
context: While slaveholding was slightly less concentrated than in some Southern states, according to the 1860 census, more than 330,000 people, or 33% of the population of 992,622, were enslaved African Americans. They lived and worked chiefly on plantations in the eastern Tidewater. In addition, 30,463 free people of color lived in the state. They were also concentrated in the eastern coastal plain, especially at port cities such as Wilmington and New Bern, where a variety of jobs were available. Free African Americans were allowed to vote until 1835, when the state revoked their suffrage in restrictions following the slave rebellion of 1831 led by Nat Turner. Southern slave codes criminalized willful killing of a slave in most cases.

qas: question: What fraction of the population of North Carolina was enslaved in 1860?
answers: text: one-third

question: North Carolina did not vote to join the confederacy until they were ordered to invade what state?
answers: text: South Carolina

question: When was North Carolinas official secession?
answers: text: May 20

question: When was Tennessees informal secession?
answers: text: May 7, 1861

question: When did Tennessee officially vote to secede?
answers: text: June 8, 1861
context: In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state, in which one-third of the population was enslaved. This was a smaller proportion than in many Southern states. The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister state, South Carolina, becoming the last or second-to-last state to officially join the Confederacy. The title of "last to join the Confederacy" has been disputed; although Tennessee's informal secession on May 7, 1861, preceded North Carolina's official secession on May 20, the Tennessee legislature did not formally vote to secede until June 8, 1861.

qas: question: Some North Carolinians still refused to support what after secession?
answers: text: the Confederacy

question: Some of what farmers remained neutral during the civil war?
answers: text: yeoman

question: Where were the yoeman farmers that remained neutral during the civil war located?
answers: text: in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region

question: How many North Carolinians from the west fought for the union Army?
answers: text: 2,000

question: When did union forces occupy coastal areas of North carolina?
answers: text: 1862 and 1863
context: After secession, some North Carolinians refused to support the Confederacy. Some of the yeoman farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region remained neutral during the Civil War, while some covertly supported the Union cause during the conflict. Approximately 2,000 North Carolinians from western North Carolina enlisted in the Union Army and fought for the North in the war. Two additional Union Army regiments were raised in the coastal areas of the state, which were occupied by Union forces in 1862 and 1863. Numerous slaves escaped to Union lines, where they became essentially free.

qas: question: What was the name of the Confederacys most famous army?
answers: text: Army of Northern Virginia

question: How many battles of the army of Northern Virginia did confederate troops from north Carolina fight in?
answers: text: virtually all

question: What was the name of the largest battle fought in North Carolina?
answers: text: Bentonville

question: What was the name of the confederate general that fought in Bentonville?
answers: text: General Joseph Johnston

question: What was the name of the Union General that fought in Bentonville?
answers: text: General William Tecumseh Sherman
context: Confederate troops from all parts of North Carolina served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most famous army. The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. In April 1865, after losing the Battle of Morrisville, Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Bennett Place, in what is today Durham. North Carolina's port city of Wilmington was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, in February 1865, after the Union won the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher, its major defense downriver.

qas: question: Who was the first confederate soldier to be killed in the civil war?
answers: text: Private Henry Wyatt

question: Where was henry Wyatt from?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: What battle did Private Henry Wyatt die in?
answers: text: in the Battle of Big Bethel

question: When did Henry Wyatt die?
answers: text: June 1861

question: When was the battle of Gettysburg?
answers: text: July 1863
context: The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861. At the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the 26th North Carolina Regiment participated in Pickett/Pettigrew's Charge and advanced the farthest into the Northern lines of any Confederate regiment. During the Battle of Chickamauga, the 58th North Carolina Regiment advanced farther than any other regiment on Snodgrass Hill to push back the remaining Union forces from the battlefield. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox."

qas: question: What is the religious name given to the part of the country that includes the Carolinas?
answers: text: Bible Belt

question: What religion holds the majority in the Bible Belt?
answers: text: Baptists

question: What was the largest denomination in North Carolina in 2010?
answers: text: Southern Baptist

question: What was the second largest denomination in North carolina in 2010?
answers: text: United Methodist Church

question: What was the third largest denomination in North carolina in 2010?
answers: text: Roman Catholic
context: While the Baptists in total (counting both blacks and whites) have maintained the majority in this part of the country (known as the Bible Belt), the population in North Carolina practices a wide variety of faiths, including Judaism, Islam, Baha'i, Buddhism, and Hinduism. As of 2010 the Southern Baptist Church was the biggest denomination, with 4,241 churches and 1,513,000 members; the second largest was the United Methodist Church, with 660,000 members and 1,923 churches. The third was the Roman Catholic Church, with 428,000 members in 190 congregations. The fourth greatest was the Presbyterian Church (USA), with 186,000 members and 710 congregations; this denomination was brought by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled the backcountry in the colonial era.

qas: question: Immigrants from latin America coming to North Carolina is increasing what?
answers: text: ethnic and religious diversity

question: What has happened to the number of Roman Catholics and Jews in North Carolina?
answers: text: increased

question: Religious diversity in North Carolina has generally what?
answers: text: increased

question: What is the second largest Protestant denomination in North Carolina?
answers: text: Methodism

question: What county in Piedmont is methodism especially strong in?
answers: text: Guilford
context: Currently, the rapid influx of northerners and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing ethnic and religious diversity: the number of Roman Catholics and Jews in the state has increased, as well as general religious diversity. The second-largest Protestant denomination in North Carolina after Baptist traditions is Methodism, which is strong in the northern Piedmont, especially in populous Guilford County. There are also a substantial number of Quakers in Guilford County and northeastern North Carolina. Many universities and colleges in the state have been founded on religious traditions, and some currently maintain that affiliation, including:

qas: question: What is the Nickname given to North Carolina?
answers: text: Old North State

question: Science, Technology, energy, and math industries have risen what percent since 2001?
answers: text: 17.9

question: What is raleigh-Cary ranked among the 51 largest metro areas in the country?
answers: text: 5

question: What was North Carolinas gross state product in 2010?
answers: text: $424.9 billion

question: What was North Carolinas state debt in 2012?
answers: text: $2.4bn
context: According to a Forbes article written in 2013 Employment in the "Old North State" has gained many different industry sectors. See the following article summary: science, technology, energy and math, or STEM, industries in the area surrounding North Carolina's capital have grown 17.9 percent since 2001, placing Raleigh-Cary at No. 5 among the 51 largest metro areas in the country where technology is booming. In 2010 North Carolina's total gross state product was $424.9 billion, while the state debt in November 2012, according to one source, totalled US$2.4bn, while according to another, was in 2012 US$57.8bn. In 2011 the civilian labor force was at around 4.5 million with employment near 4.1 million. The working population is employed across the major employment sectors. The economy of North Carolina covers 15 metropolitan areas. In 2010, North Carolina was chosen as the third-best state for business by Forbes Magazine, and the second-best state by Chief Executive Officer Magazine.

qas: question: North carolina voters have leaned republican since what year?
answers: text: 1976

question: What year did North Carolina voters once again vote for a Democrat?
answers: text: 2008

question: What year did Bill Clinton win North Carolina?
answers: text: 1992

question: What year did Bill Clinton lose North Carolina?
answers: text: 1996

question: Where was the 2012 democratic national Convention held?
answers: text: Charlotte
context: North Carolina's party loyalties have undergone a series of important shifts in the last few years: While the 2010 midterms saw Tar Heel voters elect a bicameral Republican majority legislature for the first time in over a century, North Carolina has also become a Southern swing state in presidential races. Since Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter's comfortable victory in the state in 1976, the state had consistently leaned Republican in presidential elections until Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won the state in 2008. In the 1990s, Democrat Bill Clinton came within a point of winning the state in 1992 and also only narrowly lost the state in 1996. In the early 2000s, Republican George W. Bush easily won the state by over 12 points, but by 2008, demographic shifts, population growth, and increased liberalization in heavily populated areas such as the Research Triangle, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, and Asheville, propelled Barack Obama to victory in North Carolina, the first Democrat to win the state since 1976. In 2012, North Carolina was again considered a competitive swing state, with the Democrats even holding their 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. However, Republican Mitt Romney ultimately eked out a 2-point win in North Carolina, the only 2012 swing state that Obama lost, and one of only two states (along with Indiana) to flip from Obama in 2008 to the GOP in 2012.

qas: question: Who was elected Governor of North Carolina in 2012?
answers: text: Pat McCrory

question: What political party does Pat McCrory belong to?
answers: text: Republican

question: Who ws elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 2012?
answers: text: Dan Forest

question: What political party does Dan Forest belong to?
answers: text: Republican

question: Who won North Carolinas 7th congressional district seat in 2014?
answers: text: David Rouzer
context: In 2012, the state elected a Republican Governor (Pat McCrory) and Lieutenant Governor (Dan Forest) for the first time in more than two decades, while also giving the Republicans veto-proof majorities in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate. Several U.S. House of Representatives seats also flipped control, with the Republicans holding nine seats to the Democrats' four. In the 2014 mid-term elections, Republican David Rouzer won the state's Seventh Congressional District seat, increasing the congressional delegation party split to 10-3 in favor of the GOP.

qas: question: What agency oversees public schools in North Carolina?
answers: text: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

question: Who holds most legal authority for making education policy?
answers: text: the board

question: What year did the boards chairman become the Chief Executive officer of public schools?
answers: text: 2009

question: How many public school systems does North Carolina have?
answers: text: 115

question: What is the largest school system in North Carolina?
answers: text: Wake County Public School System
context: Elementary and secondary public schools are overseen by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction is the secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Education, but the board, rather than the superintendent, holds most of the legal authority for making public education policy. In 2009, the board's chairman also became the "chief executive officer" for the state's school system. North Carolina has 115 public school systems, each of which is overseen by a local school board. A county may have one or more systems within it. The largest school systems in North Carolina are the Wake County Public School System, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Cumberland County Schools. In total there are 2,425 public schools in the state, including 99 charter schools. North Carolina Schools were segregated until the Brown v. Board of Education trial and the release of the Pearsall Plan.

qas: question: What state opened the first public university in the United States?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: What year was the first public university opened in the United States?
answers: text: 1795

question: What was the name of the first public university to open in the US?
answers: text: University of North Carolina

question: What is the largest University in North Carolina?
answers: text: North Carolina State University

question: How many students does North Carolina State University enroll?
answers: text: 34,000
context: In 1795, North Carolina opened the first public university in the United States—the University of North Carolina (now named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). More than 200 years later, the University of North Carolina system encompasses 17 public universities including North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, East Carolina University, Western Carolina University, Winston-Salem State University, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, UNC Wilmington, Elizabeth City State University, Appalachian State University, Fayetteville State University, and UNC School of the Arts, and . Along with its public universities, North Carolina has 58 public community colleges in its community college system.The largest university in North Carolina is currently North Carolina State University, with more than 34,000 students. North Carolina is home to many excellent universities as well as dozens of community colleges and private universities.

qas: question: Duke University and Shaw University are examples of what type of colleges that are in North Carolina?
answers: text: private

question: What was the first black college in the south?
answers: text: Shaw University

question: What is the name of the only Catholic college in the Carolinas?
answers: text: Belmont Abbey College

question: What is the name of the only Lutheran University in North Carolina?
answers: text: Lenoir-Rhyne University
context: North Carolina is also home to many well-known private colleges and universities, including Duke University, Wake Forest University, Pfeiffer University, Lees-McRae College, Davidson College, Barton College, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Elon University, Guilford College, Livingstone College, Salem College, Shaw University (the first historically black college or university in the South), Laurel University, Meredith College, Methodist University, Belmont Abbey College (the only Catholic college in the Carolinas), Campbell University, University of Mount Olive, Montreat College, High Point University, Lenoir-Rhyne University (the only Lutheran university in North Carolina) and Wingate University.

qas: question: How many major league sports franchises make North carolina home?
answers: text: three

question: The Caroli8na panthers belong to what league?
answers: text: National Football League

question: The Charlotte Hornets belong to what league?
answers: text: National Basketball Association

question: The Carolina Hurricanes belong to what league?
answers: text: National Hockey League

question: What is the only professional team from North carolina to have won a league championship?
answers: text: The Hurricanes
context: North Carolina is home to three major league sports franchises: the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League and the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association are based in Charlotte, while the Raleigh-based Carolina Hurricanes play in the National Hockey League. The Panthers and Hurricanes are the only two major professional sports teams that have the same geographical designation while playing in different metropolitan areas. The Hurricanes are the only major professional team from North Carolina to have won a league championship, having captured the Stanley Cup in 2006. North Carolina is also home to Charlotte Hounds of the Major League Lacrosse.

qas: question: What Speedway in North Carolina hosts two Sprint cupseries races each year?
answers: text: Charlotte Motor Speedway

question: Where is Charlotte motor Speedway located?
answers: text: Concord

question: What North Carolina city hosts the NASCAR Hall of Fame?
answers: text: Charlotte

question: What North carolina city is home to several top racing teams?
answers: text: Concord
context: In addition to professional team sports, North Carolina has a strong affiliation with NASCAR and stock-car racing, with Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord hosting two Sprint Cup Series races every year. Charlotte also hosts the NASCAR Hall of Fame, while Concord is the home of several top-flight racing teams, including Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Stewart-Haas Racing, and Chip Ganassi Racing. Numerous other tracks around North Carolina host races from low-tier NASCAR circuits as well.

qas: question: How many colleges compete at the Division 1 level in North Carolina?
answers: text: 18

question: Where is the ACC headquarters?
answers: text: Greensboro

question: Where were the ACC football and basketball championships recently held?
answers: text: North Carolina

question: What stadium host the ACC championship game and the Belk Bowl each year?
answers: text: Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium

question: How many times has North Carolina hosted the NCAA final four?
answers: text: two
context: College sports are also popular in North Carolina, with 18 schools competing at the Division I level. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is headquartered in Greensboro, and both the ACC Football Championship Game (Charlotte) and the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament (Greensboro) were most recently held in North Carolina. College basketball in particular is very popular, buoyed by the Tobacco Road rivalries between Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest. The ACC Championship Game and The Belk Bowl are held annually in Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium, featuring teams from the ACC and the Southeastern Conference. Additionally, the state has hosted the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four on two occasions, in Greensboro in 1974 and in Charlotte in 1994.

qas: question: How many people go to see the Appalachian Mountains each year?
answers: text: several million

question: What part of the state are the Appalachian Mountains in?
answers: text: Western

question: Great Smoky mountain and Blue Ridge Parkway are located in what mountain range?
answers: text: Appalachian

question: How many tourists visited the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge parkway in 2013?
answers: text: over 25 million

question: What North Carolina City is consistently voted one of the top places to live in the United States?
answers: text: Asheville
context: Every year the Appalachian Mountains attract several million tourists to the Western part of the state, including the historic Biltmore Estate. The scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park are the two most visited national park and unit in the United States with over 25 million visitors in 2013. The City of Asheville is consistently voted as one of the top places to visit and live in the United States, known for its rich art deco architecture, mountain scenery and outdoor activities, and liberal and happy residents.

qas: question: What Hockey team is located in Raleigh?
answers: text: Carolina Hurricanes

question: What league do the Carolina Hurricanes belong to?
answers: text: NHL

question: What Hall of Fame is located in Raleigh?
answers: text: North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

question: What arboretum is located in Raleigh?
answers: text: J. C. Raulston Arboretum
context: In Raleigh many tourists visit the Capital, African American Cultural Complex, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU, Haywood Hall House & Gardens, Marbles Kids Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of History, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, Raleigh City Museum, J. C. Raulston Arboretum, Joel Lane House, Mordecai House, Montfort Hall, and the Pope House Museum. The Carolina Hurricanes NHL hockey team is also located in the city.

qas: question: What is the center of North Carolina called?
answers: text: The Piedmont Triad

question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters located?
answers: text: The Piedmont Triad

question: What city is the North Carolina Zoo in?
answers: text: Asheboro

question: How many miles of shaded pathways does the Nort Carolina Zoo have?
answers: text: five

question: What North Carolina City hosts the Merlefest?
answers: text: Wilkesboro
context: The Piedmont Triad, or center of the state, is home to Krispy Kreme, Mayberry, Texas Pete, the Lexington Barbecue Festival, and Moravian cookies. The internationally acclaimed North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro attracts visitors to its animals, plants, and a 57-piece art collection along five miles of shaded pathways in the world's largest-land-area natural-habitat park. Seagrove, in the central portion of the state, attracts many tourists along Pottery Highway (NC Hwy 705). MerleFest in Wilkesboro attracts more than 80,000 people to its four-day music festival; and Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe water park in Greensboro is another attraction.

qas: question: Fishing, hunting, and birdwatching are what kind of activities that are provided in North Carolina?
answers: text: recreational

question: In the Fall, people go to North Carolina to see what?
answers: text: fall colors

question: What is another name for caving?
answers: text: spelunking
context: North Carolina provides a large range of recreational activities, from swimming at the beach to skiing in the mountains. North Carolina offers fall colors, freshwater and saltwater fishing, hunting, birdwatching, agritourism, ATV trails, ballooning, rock climbing, biking, hiking, skiing, boating and sailing, camping, canoeing, caving (spelunking), gardens, and arboretums. North Carolina has theme parks, aquariums, museums, historic sites, lighthouses, elegant theaters, concert halls, and fine dining.

qas: question: Howmany state parks are in North Carolina?
answers: text: 34

question: How many national parks are in North Carolina?
answers: text: 14

question: Where is the Uwharrie national Forest located?
answers: text: central North Carolina

question: Where is Croatan National Forest located?
answers: text: Eastern North Carolina

question: Where is the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park?
answers: text: Greensboro
context: North Carolinians enjoy outdoor recreation utilizing numerous local bike paths, 34 state parks, and 14 national parks. National Park Service units include the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site at Flat Rock, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site at Manteo, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, Moores Creek National Battlefield near Currie in Pender County, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, Old Salem National Historic Site in Winston-Salem, the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. National Forests include Uwharrie National Forest in central North Carolina, Croatan National Forest in Eastern North Carolina, Pisgah National Forest in the northern mountains, and Nantahala National Forest in the southwestern part of the state.

qas: question: What industry generates 1.2 billion in economic activity each year for North carolina?
answers: text: nonprofit arts and culture

question: How many full time jobs are held by those in the non profit arts and culture industry?
answers: text: 43,600

question: How much money does the nonprofit arts and culture industry raise for government?
answers: text: $119 million

question: What was the first museum in the country to be formed by legislature?
answers: text: North Carolina Museum of Art

question: How much money does the North Carolina Museum of art generate?
answers: text: millions
context: North Carolina has rich traditions in art, music, and cuisine. The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $1.2 billion in direct economic activity in North Carolina, supporting more than 43,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $119 million in revenue for local governments and the state of North Carolina. North Carolina established the North Carolina Museum of Art as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding and continues to bring millions into the NC economy. Also see this list of museums in North Carolina.

qas: question: Where is SouthPark Mall located?
answers: text: Charlotte

question: What is the largest mall in the carolinas?
answers: text: SouthPark Mall

question: How big is SouthPark Mall?
answers: text: 2.0 million square feet

question: Where is the hanes Mall located?
answers: text: Winston-Salem

question: Where is the Four Seasons Town Center located?
answers: text: Greensboro
context: North Carolina has a variety of shopping choices. SouthPark Mall in Charlotte is currently the largest in the Carolinas, with almost 2.0 million square feet. Other major malls in Charlotte include Northlake Mall and Carolina Place Mall in nearby suburb Pineville. Other major malls throughout the state include Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem; Crabtree Valley Mall, North Hills Mall, and Triangle Town Center in Raleigh; Friendly Center and Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro; Oak Hollow Mall in High Point; Concord Mills in Concord; Valley Hills Mall in Hickory; and The Streets at Southpoint and Northgate Mall in Durham and Independence Mall in Wilmington, NC, and Tanger Outlets in Charlotte, Nags Head, Blowing Rock, and Mebane, NC.

qas: question: What is a culinary staple of North Carolina?
answers: text: pork barbecue

question: What cut of pork do those in western North carolina prefer for BBQ?
answers: text: Boston butt

question: What cut of pork do those in Western North Carolina prefer for BBQ?
answers: text: pork shoulder

question: What is another name for Western North Carolina Barbecue?
answers: text: Lexington barbecue

question: How many people visit the lexington Barbecue festival each year?
answers: text: over 100,000
context: A culinary staple of North Carolina is pork barbecue. There are strong regional differences and rivalries over the sauces and methods used in making the barbecue. The common trend across Western North Carolina is the use of premium grade Boston butt. Western North Carolina pork barbecue uses a tomato-based sauce, and only the pork shoulder (dark meat) is used. Western North Carolina barbecue is commonly referred to as Lexington barbecue after the Piedmont Triad town of Lexington, home of the Lexington Barbecue Festival, which attracts over 100,000 visitors each October. Eastern North Carolina pork barbecue uses a vinegar-and-red-pepper-based sauce and the "whole hog" is cooked, thus integrating both white and dark meat.

qas: question: Krispy kreme is a chain of what kind of stores?
answers: text: doughnut

question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters?
answers: text: Winston-Salem

question: When was pepsi-Cola first produced?
answers: text: 1898

question: Where was pepsi first produced?
answers: text: New Bern

question: What city was Cheerwine created and based in?
answers: text: Salisbury
context: Krispy Kreme, an international chain of doughnut stores, was started in North Carolina; the company's headquarters are in Winston-Salem. Pepsi-Cola was first produced in 1898 in New Bern. A regional soft drink, Cheerwine, was created and is still based in the city of Salisbury. Despite its name, the hot sauce Texas Pete was created in North Carolina; its headquarters are also in Winston-Salem. The Hardee's fast-food chain was started in Rocky Mount. Another fast-food chain, Bojangles', was started in Charlotte, and has its corporate headquarters there. A popular North Carolina restaurant chain is Golden Corral. Started in 1973, the chain was founded in Fayetteville, with headquarters located in Raleigh. Popular pickle brand Mount Olive Pickle Company was founded in Mount Olive in 1926. Fast casual burger chain Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries also makes its home in Mount Olive. Cook Out, a popular fast-food chain featuring burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes in a wide variety of flavors, was founded in Greensboro in 1989 and has begun expanding outside of North Carolina. In 2013, Southern Living named Durham - Chapel Hill the South's "Tastiest City."

qas: question: What international prize winning winery is located in North Carolina?
answers: text: Noni Bacca Winery

question: What prized cheeses are made in North Carolina?
answers: text: Ashe County

question: Much tobacco land has been transformed into what kind of orchards?
answers: text: grape

question: North carolina state law allowed a jump in alcohol volume from 6% to what percent?
answers: text: 15%.

question: What city was named Beer City USA?
answers: text: Asheville
context: Over the last decade, North Carolina has become a cultural epicenter and haven for internationally prize-winning wine (Noni Bacca Winery), internationally prized cheeses (Ashe County), "L'institut International aux Arts Gastronomiques: Conquerront Les Yanks les Truffes, January 15, 2010" international hub for truffles (Garland Truffles), and beer making, as tobacco land has been converted to grape orchards while state laws regulating alcohol content in beer allowed a jump in ABV from 6% to 15%. The Yadkin Valley in particular has become a strengthening market for grape production, while Asheville recently won the recognition of being named 'Beer City USA.' Asheville boasts the largest breweries per capita of any city in the United States. Recognized and marketed brands of beer in North Carolina include Highland Brewing, Duck Rabbit Brewery, Mother Earth Brewery, Weeping Radish Brewery, Big Boss Brewing, Foothills Brewing, Carolina Brewing Company, Lonerider Brewing, and White Rabbit Brewing Company.

qas: question: What was one of the first growing industries to develope after the civil war?
answers: text: Tobacco

question: The invention of cigarettes made what popular?
answers: text: Tobacco

question: Winston Salem is the headquarters of what tobacco Company?
answers: text: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

question: What year was RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company founded?
answers: text: 1874

question: How many packs of camel cigarettes were sold per year in 1914?
answers: text: 425 million
context: Tobacco was one of the first major industries to develop after the Civil War. Many farmers grew some tobacco, and the invention of the cigarette made the product especially popular. Winston-Salem is the birthplace of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR), founded by R. J. Reynolds in 1874 as one of 16 tobacco companies in the town. By 1914 it was selling 425 million packs of Camels a year. Today it is the second-largest tobacco company in the U.S. (behind Altria Group). RJR is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., which in turn is 42% owned by British American Tobacco.

qas: question: Where is Camp Lejeune located?
answers: text: Jacksonville

question: What is Camp Lejeune?
answers: text: Marine Corps Base Camp

question: Bases making up the larges concentration of marines and sailors in the world is located in what NC city?
answers: text: Jacksonville

question: Where is Seymour johnson air force base located?
answers: text: Goldsboro

question: Where is the military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point stationed?
answers: text: Southport
context: Located in Jacksonville, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, combined with nearby bases Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Camp Geiger, Camp Johnson, Stone Bay and Courthouse Bay, makes up the largest concentration of Marines and sailors in the world. MCAS Cherry Point is home of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Located in Goldsboro, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home of the 4th Fighter Wing and 916th Air Refueling Wing. One of the busiest air stations in the United States Coast Guard is located at the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City. Also stationed in North Carolina is the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point in Southport.