PIEDMONT Regions of North Carolina Geography Coarse red

PIEDMONT Regions of North Carolina

Geography ◦ Coarse, red clay ◦ Covered with tough oak, hickory, and pine trees ◦ Small, swift streams for mills ◦ What does this mean? ◦ No roads to market ◦ Settlers would only get enough land for themselves—not plantations

People ◦ Hardworking ◦ Indentured servants from VA moved down ◦ Native American tribes ◦ Highland Scots, Scots-Irish, German

Production ◦ Sometimes, those in the Piedmont could produce… ◦ …clothes ◦ …corn meal & flour ◦ …tar & pitch for shipbuilding ◦ …lumber

Class Structure ◦ Upper ◦ Well educated—clergy, professionals ◦ Yeoman ◦ Independent, crude manners, strict religious beliefs ◦ Indentured class ◦ Orphans, poor in general ◦ Slaves & free blacks

MOUNTAINS Regions of North Carolina

Geography & Early History ◦ Rough terrain, heavily forested, rocky soil ◦ Cherokee ◦ Lived in the NC mountains for centuries ◦ No settlers until late 1700 s ◦ Why? ◦ No trails ◦ No fertile land

Daniel Boone ◦ Fought in French & Indian War ◦ Led settlers through the Appalachians into Kentucky & Tennessee ◦ Fought in American Revolution ◦ Settled in Missouri ◦ Video Link

Landmarks ◦ Blowing Rock ◦ Legend about Native American couple ◦ Video Link ◦ Grandfather Mountain ◦ Profile of old man ◦ Video Link ◦ Crowders Mountain ◦ Separated hunting grounds of Cherokee & Catawba