North Carolina
The major industry in North Carolina during Colonial times was Plantation Agriculture. They grew indigo, a type of dye, rice and tobacco. North Carolina was named after Carolus, the Latin word for Charles. In 1663 King Charles II issued a charter, a written grant by a country's government power, for eight men to settle the area south of Virginia. North Carolina has many trees and mountains. Many settlers settled in the mountains and others settled by the water.
| English explorers Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe sailed by Roanoke Island in 1584. Later a group of English people came wanting to make their home on the island. This settlement did not last. People from England kept coming to the new land. In 1629 king Charles I gave a royal charter for the land south of Virginia to Sir Robert Heath. He only gave it to him because Heath said that he would name the land Carolina, after the king. English settlers began coming to North Carolina.
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This charter divided the land into three counties: Albemarle, Clarendon, and Craven. In 1689, the land was divided into two colonies. This is what we now call North Carolina and South Carolina. In 1729 North Carolina became a royal colony.