1. By: Drew VonScio, Gus Gonzalez, and Angi Tocci
North Carolina
By: Drew VonScio, Gus Gonzalez, and Angi Tocci

2. Success or Failure?
North Carolina was a successful colony, because it was a big rice provider for its colony. At first, it was not successful, because the British had established two colonies there in the 1580s. However, both colonies failed. Then, in the 1600s, a permanent settlement was established. In 1775, they were the first country to secede from Britain. After the revolution, they were the 12th state of the Union.

3. When was the colony established?
As said on the previous slide, the first attempt for a colony in North Carolina failed in the 1580s. Then in the 1600s, another colony was established, and it was a permanent colony.

4. Why was the colony established?
The colony was established, because of eight men who had helped King Charles II regain the throne. These eight men were allowed the land that was named “Carolina”, the Latin word for Charles. This occurred in 1663.

5. Who established North Carolina?
North Carolina was established by the British, in particular the eight men who helped King Charles II, however, King Charles II was given credit for establishing the colony.

6. What did North Carolina produce to export and make money?
Rice was the important crop from North Carolina. The excess in rice allowed it to be exported, and the colony received money in return.

7. Who made up the colonists?
The colonists in North Carolina were white English men and Native American women. Also, these people were Quakers who were poor.

8. What form of government did the colonists establish in North Carolina?
By the time North Carolina claimed its independence in 1776, the institutions of state government were already firmly established.

9. What region did the colonies become associated with
What region did the colonies become associated with? New England, Middle (chesapeake), or South colonies
The primary motive for establishing the middle, or mid-Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware was to develop profitable trading centers.

10. Map of the Colony

11. Picture and Description of Flag
The North Carolina
Flag has the United
States colors, as well
as the day they
became a colony and
the day they declared
Independence.

12. Picture and Description of Founder
Charles II was the king of England, who is
given credit for founding the colony of Carolina.
He had given the land to eight men who helped
him regain the throne, and those men named
the land after him.

13. What is the geography and climate of the colony?
Colonial North Carolina's geography was split into three main areas: the coastal, Piedmont and mountain regions. There were swamps, islands, foothills and mountains in North Carolina. The geography of the state has not changed much since colonial times.

14. What were the overall religious practices of people?
Quakers inhabited most of North Carolina so that form of Christianity was their main religion.

15. Examples of food in North Carolina
Peaches
Deer
Many sorts of fish
Asparagus
Pigeons
Cattle
Salt
Potatoes
Rice
Wild Onions

16. What was the type of education available in North Carolina?
Many children of this time received no formal schooling because their parents saw no need for the ideas taught in schools, and they could not afford to pay for it. Through this manner of learning, known as informal learning, the majority of the colony’s children learned what they needed to know to live in the agricultural society of this time. They learned, for example, how to plant and when to harvest crops, how to build and maintain farms, how to care for families.

17. What did colonists in North Carolina do for fun?
They found entertainment in folk music, conversation, a handful of books, and newspaper.

18. Interesting facts about North Carolina
The earliest known permanent settler in the North Carolina Colony was Nathaniel Batts, who settled there in 1653.
There was no dominating religion in the North Carolina Colony. Like most of the Southern Colonies settlers were free to worship as Catholics, Anglicans, Jews, Baptists or whichever they chose to believe.
The North Carolina Colony landscape included coastal plains, mountain ranges and plateaus. Farming and agriculture were extremely important to the settlers because of the warm climate and vast farmland.
The warm weather and lack of cold winters made it much easier for illness to spread and thrive.
Because of the warm climate in the Southern Colonies it was possible to farm most of the year. This made it possible for the North Carolina Colony farmers to export agricultural products to the other colonies.