Charlotte even tried to call itself this because it was spreading into South Carolina.
Metrolina
100
(unplanned, uncoordinated spread)
urban sprawl
100
Today, Lowe’s has more than ,how many stores operating in 49 states
1,250
100
One reason that a medical school was established at East Carolina University in Greenville in 1973.
was a shortage of doctors that occurred by the 1970s.
100
What is 10 feet long and has ten teeth?
Front row of a Toby Keith concert
200
A metropolitan area has a concentration of ...
people, jobs, services, and entertainment.
200
It is the largest privately owned department store company in the country. It has more than 275 stores in 16 states.
Belk
200
Over time, what closed most of the shops and stores in small towns?
metropolitan areas
200
By the end of the 1990s, how many North Carolinians still farmed?
Three out of every one hundred
200
President during the New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
300
Charlotte had been the first city in the state to gain more than how many residents, during World War II?
100,000
300
The replacement of run-down city buildings
urban renewal
300
The Teeter brothers of what town evolved into Harris Teeter?
Mooresville
300
Fewer than 5,000 people lived here in the 1960s.
Cary
300
It is a downturn in economic activity
Depression
400
By 1970, cities had at least 100,000
Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh
400
It is a business granted a special right to sell a product or service in a certain area.
franchise
400
1970s, Salisbury-based Food Town founder, Ralph T. Ketner, had introduced discounting (reducing) the price of canned and packaged goods to make groceries more affordable.
Food Lion
400
South Park Mall is located where?
Charlotte
400
October 24, 1929 on Wall Street in New York City. There, stock prices dropped sharply and spread financial panic.
“Black Thursday”
500
By the late 1990s, its population approached 80,000.
Cary
500
This franchise was founded in Rocky Mount.
Hardee’s
500
The availability of what to just about every citizen, combined with the expansion of the paved and multilane roads, ended the traditional custom of house calls by physicians
automobiles
500
Crabtree Valley Mall is located where?
Raleigh
500
His daughter was recently accepted to the University of North Carolina (that school).