What is it called when farmers grew crops like corn, wheat, and oats to survive?
What is Subsistence farming
100
A man that would make tools and made shoes for horses (horseshoes).
What is Blacksmith
100
They turned wood and iron into barrels.
What is Coopers
100
In the 1800s, neighborhoods could be ____ miles apart (the distance a person would walk in a day).
What is 8
200
Houses in the country were about how far apart?
What is ½ mile
200
Joseph and Nancy Bunn built a house on the road from Fayetteville to Raleigh. Eventually the area became known as?
What is Bunnlevel
200
Bunnlevel's name came about how?
What is Bunn family and the “flat level land” they owned
200
trading one item for another
What is Bartering
200
These initials means that you are owed money.
What is IOU
300
Neighborhoods would combine their cash crops and trust their neighbors to take it to market and sell it.
What is Clubbing
300
Some neighborhoods established a festival to celebrate the clubbing.
What is fall
300
Drovers would use the ????? Turnpike to take the animals to Charleston SC.
What is Buncombe
300
He was from Asheville and had a “hog hotel”. He would allow drovers to pin up there animals, while the drovers had a dry place to sleep.
What is James Alexander
300
This is when men would train twice a year (spring/fall) this was the predecessor of county fairs.The men trained for the militia.
What is Muster Day
400
How many times a year did the citizens of the county would meet with judges to settle civil matters.
What is Four
400
These were Judges that would hold court in counties. He would seal wills, resolve disputes, and petty crimes.
What is Justice of the Peace
400
People would come for a week to hear a week long message from the Pastor. Some people stayed and camped in tents and others built small log cabins. This was the predecessor of “vacation homes”.
What is Camp Meeting
400
Held in August for North Carolina. The election was held at the county seat and was also a festive occasion.
What is Election Day
400
This was in August when crops needed to be left alone until harvest. The other time of this season was Christmas when the ground froze.
What is Laying – by season
500
• Many times outside the courthouse citizens gathered in a festive manner:
1. People did not get together much and when they did they would visit and fellowship
2. They sold trinkets and traded because they had many people in town during court week
3. Farm women would sell their baked goods
4. Teenagers would seek out romance the term was called ?????.
What is “courting”
500
This was held normally within the family. . This was a time to celebrate with neighbors. Horseracing was a very popular event.
What is Christmas
500
North Carolina was a slave state what % of families owned slaves and what % of North Carolina’s population was slave.
What is 25%/25%
500
Two reasons slavery was popular
What is 1.) The soil was good 2.) The land was not far from ports.
500
Farms that were larger than average, farms generally running from 100 acres to thousands of acres.