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**Facts about the History of North Carolina History - 1500 / 1600's** **Work Cited: []** North Carolina was founded in around 1650 by English settlers. It was founded for farming The Capital is raliegh.The main source of trade was tobacco and the two major settlements are raliegh and charlotte. William Hooper, John Penn and Joseph Hewes signed the decleration of indpendence for North Carolina.
 * **The Native Indians of North Carolina included the Bear River Indians, Cape Fear Indians, Catawba, Cheraw, Cherokee, Chowanoc, Machapunga, Moratok, Natchez, Occaneechi, Saponi, Shakori, Tuscarora and Waccamaw tribes**
 * **1524 - Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano ( 1485 - 1528 ) arriving at Cape Fear, explores the Carolina coast for France**
 * **1540 - Spanish explorer, Spanish Hernando de Soto (1500-1542) explores the area in search of gold**
 * **1584 - March 25 Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) to search and discover 'remote and heathen lands'**
 * **1584 - April 27 Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe reach Roanoke Island in July, authorised by Sir Walter Raleigh, claim the land and return to England in September**
 * **1585 - Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) led expeditions to both North America and South America in order to found new settlements and find gold. Raleigh sends several shiploads of colonists to the east coast of North America**
 * **1585 - Raleigh's fleet of seven vessels under Sir Richard Grenville (1541 - 1591) reach Roanoke Island in June**
 * **1586 - The colonists on Roanoke Island are forced to return to England due to hardships**
 * **1587 - John White ( 1540 - 1606 ) with 150 men, women, and children sent by Sir Walter Raleigh and found the City of Raleigh & establishes a second English colony at Roanoke and becomes Governor**

10 fast facts about North Carolina. 1) The colony was one of the last hold outs to ratify the constitution. 2) The lost colony of roanoke was located in what is now North Carolina. 3) The area was called Carolina in honor of King Charles I. 4) King Charles II gave the area of south Carolina to eight lords in 1663. 5) 1663-1729 Colony was run by eight lords. 6) 1729 seven lords sold interest back to the crown. 7) They had religous liberty, though the church of england was established by law. 8) Earl of shaftesbury was one of the eight lords. 9) Earl conceived a plan of goerment that involved aristocrtic rule. 10) North Carolina and South Carolina used to be one colony.