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North Carolina

N orth Carolina has re-invented itself several times. It was given by the English king to private owners, and then bought back by a different king to become a British Colony. It was governed jointly with South Carolina, and then established a separate government. Later it joined South Carolina and ten other Southern states to form the Confederate States of America, only to rejoin the United States at the end of the Civil War. Economically North Carolina has also changed greatly throughout its history. For more than 100 years it was a rural, agricultural state. It became a manufacturing state in the 20th

century when textile mills in New England moved south. Once manufacturing jobs began moving overseas during the 1970s, North Carolina re- invented itself as a center for education, research, and finance. This ability to adapt and change to existing conditions gives North Carolina a bright future.

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