Even though the Democrats remained a majority in the legislature, Holshouser moved state in what direction.
Conservative
100
He convinced the legislature (1977) to allow the governor to serve more than one term.
Jim Hunt
100
By what year had the Republicans elected enough representatives to influence legislation?
1988
100
(grants of money)
subsidies
100
Our 20th President
Games A. Garfield
200
During the Holshouser years, the Democrats were led by what Lieutenant Governor?
Jim Hunt.
200
This Republican served as governor for two terms in the 1980s
Jim Martin
200
He became the first African American speaker of the house in state history.
Dan Blue
200
Jesse Helms supported the idea of limited government set out by who in the early 1800s?
Nathaniel Macon
200
President during the Vietnam War 1968-1972
President Richard Nixon
300
Constitution of 1971 consolidated all state offices into larger? departments
Departments
300
His twenty years in office (counting his term as lieutenant governor) were the longest service to North Carolina since Gabriel Johnston in the colonial period.
Jim Hunt
300
In 1995, he became the first Republican speaker.
Harold Brubaker
300
During the 1960s, he became a Republican.
Jesse Helms
300
Elizabeth Dole served in his cabinet as Secretary of Labor
President George H.W. Bush
400
He is the longest serving Governor in North Carolina history.
James B. Hunt
400
During what two Governors did the state institute kindergarten and Head Start?
Hunt and Martin
400
She was the first African American female from North Carolina to be elected to the U.S. Congress, and was elected four times.
Eva Clayton
400
His cautious, more conservative approach to civil rights and the Vietnam War appealed to many.
President Richard Nixon
400
Our 16th President
President Abraham Lincoln
500
Jim Hunt was elected governor in...
1976
500
This worked to give poorer children in the state a better chance to succeed once they got to the first grade. Class sizes were made smaller, and tests were put into place to measure progress.
Smart Start
500
It looked like a snake drawn on a map.
12th Congressional District
500
In 1991, became the President of the National Red Cross.