1. Regions of North Carolina
Piedmont
Regions of North Carolina

2. Geography Rough Terrain --- No roads to market
Coarse, red clay
Covered with tough oak, hickory, and pine trees
Small, swift streams for mills
What does this mean?
Rough Terrain ---
No roads to market
Settlers would only get enough land for themselves—no plantations

3. People Hardworking Indentured servants from VA moved down
Native American tribes
Highland Scots

4. Production Mostly self-sufficient family farms
Sometimes, those in the Piedmont could produce…
…clothes
…corn meal & flour
…tar & pitch for shipbuilding
…lumber
Mostly self-sufficient family farms
Waterpowered mills (later)

5. Class Structure Native Americans -- Catawba Tribe Upper Class
Well educated—clergy, professionals
Yeoman (farmers)
Independent small farms, crude manners, strict religious beliefs
Indentured class
Orphans, poor workers trying to pay off debts
Slaves & some free African Americans
Native Americans -- Catawba Tribe

6. Regions of North Carolina
Mountains
Regions of North Carolina

7. Geography & Early History
Cherokee
Lived in the NC mountains for centuries
No European settlers until late 1700s because
of rough, rocky terrain, dense forests, and
no fertile land
Scots-Irish and German

8. Daniel Boone: Trailblazer
Fought in French & Indian War
Led settlers through the Appalachians into Kentucky & Tennessee
Fought in American Revolution
Settled in Missouri

9. Landmarks Blowing Rock Grandfather Mountain Crowders Mountain
Legend about Native American couple
Grandfather Mountain
Profile of old man
Crowders Mountain
Separated hunting grounds of Cherokee & Catawba