North Carolina: The Tar Heel State

• Alternate Nickname: Old North State
• Capital: Raleigh
• Major Cities:
  • Charlotte
  • Winston-Salem
  • Fayetteville
  • Greensboro
  • Durham
• Major Geographical Features
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Cape Hatteras
  • Atlantic Coastal Plains
  • Appalachian Mts.
  • Smoky Mts.
  • Blue Ridge Mts.
  • Roanoke River
  • Mt. Mitchell
• National Parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • 9 million visitors per year
• 1585: 1st colony at Roanoke established
  • 1st attempt to colonize America by English-speaking people
• 1789: North Carolina becomes the 12th state
• 1861: Last state to secede from the Union
• 1903: The Wright Brothers make the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk
• Motto: "To be rather than to seem"
• Name Meaning: Named after Charles I of England
• Industries:
  • Tobacco
  • Sweet Potatoes
    • Largest producer of sweet potatoes in the United States
  • Bricks
  • Furnature
  • Textiles
  • Cigarettes
  • Tourism
    • $12 billion per year
    • 44 million tourists per year
• Research Triangle
  • Durham (Duke University), Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina), Raleigh (North Carolina State University)
  • Many university and research programs in this triangle
• 3 capital buildings, 2 permanent capitals (Raleigh and New Bern)
• Famous People
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Andrew Johnson
  • James K. Polk
  • Arnold Palmer