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Category: Geography of North Carolina
Category: Key Events in NC History
Category: North Carolina Government
Category: US Voting & Elections
Category: North Carolina's Economy & Industry
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$100 – This region of North Carolina is the largest and is home to estuaries and barrier islands.

(What is the Coastal Plain?)

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$100 – This war was fought between the American colonies and Britain for independence.

  • (What is the Revolutionary War?)
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$100 – The three branches of North Carolina’s government.
 

(What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?)

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$100 – The right to vote.

  • (What is suffrage?)


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$100 – This industry, which involves turning raw materials into products like furniture and textiles, was historically important in North Carolina.

  • (What is manufacturing?)


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$200 – This imaginary line marks the point where waterfalls occur and historically limited how far ships could travel inland.

(What is the Fall Line?)

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$200 – This document, written in Halifax, NC, encouraged independence from Britain.

  • (What is the Halifax Resolves?)


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$200 – The branch of government responsible for making laws.

  • (What is the Legislative branch?)


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$200 – The type of election that determines which candidate will represent each political party in the general election.

  • (What is the Primary Election?)


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$200 – This crop, used in cigarettes, was one of North Carolina’s most significant cash crops.

  • (What is tobacco?)


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$300 – This region is located between the Coastal Plain and the Mountain Region and is known for its rolling hills and industries like tobacco and textiles.

(What is the Piedmont?)

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$300 – The four African American students who staged a nonviolent sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.

(Who are the Greensboro Four?)


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$300 – The branch of government responsible for interpreting laws and ensuring they follow the Constitution.

  • (What is the Judicial branch?)


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$300 – The type of election where citizens vote for the final candidates for government positions.

  • (What is the General Election?)


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$300 – This North Carolina industry led to the state being the center of textile production in the U.S. by the 1920s.

  • (What is the textile industry?)


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$400 – The tallest peak east of the Mississippi River, found in the Mountain Region of North Carolina.

(What is Mount Mitchell?)

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$400 – The war fought between the Northern and Southern states over slavery and states’ rights.

(What is the Civil War?)


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$400 – The system that ensures no one branch of government has too much power.

  • (What are checks and balances?)


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$400 – The two main political parties in the United States.

  • (What are the Democratic and Republican parties?)


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$400 – North Carolina’s coastal resources helped this industry thrive.

  • (What is fishing or maritime trade?)


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$500 – The process by which people and goods have moved throughout North Carolina, contributing to its growth and development.

(What is migration or transportation?)

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$500 – This North Carolina industry was central to the first gold rush in the U.S. before California’s discovery.

(What is gold mining?)

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$500 – The elected leader of North Carolina’s Executive Branch.

  1. (Who is the Governor?)
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$500 – The group that elects the President of the United States based on state votes.

(What is the Electoral College?)

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$500 – In the 1820s, this precious metal was discovered in North Carolina, leading to the first _________ rush in the U.S.

(What is gold?)