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for Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 34 Issue 2, Spring 1995
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2299
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The state's Coastal Plain is divided into three sub regions: the Albemarle, middle Coastal Plain, and the Cape Fear. Each area is different geographically, and each had a different settlement history.
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2301
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Before English colonists arrived, Native Americans had lived in the state 12,000 years. Thirty tribes totaling 100,000 occupied the state in the late 1500s, but colonial wars and diseases rapidly decreased that number to 20,000 in 1800.
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2344
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Though land was cheap, rugged mountains, the lack of good roads, political conflict with the east, and isolation were challenges to those who came to the mountains to farm, start businesses, or search for gold.
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2345
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Whites left the state in the 19th Century because of farm problems and poor state government, while lack of opportunities and a repressive environment caused Blacks to leave. As conditions improved for both, the need to leave lessened.
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2346
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Following the Great Wagon Road and the Great Indian Trading Path, settlers began moving into the Piedmont shortly before the Revolution. Despite Indian warfare and the Regulator conflict, the best land was occupied by farms and towns by the 1770s.
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2351
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From 1980 to 1990 about 400,000 people moved to the state. New jobs and industries in the three largest metropolitan areas attracted Blacks to return, as well as large numbers of Asians and Hispanics. In-state residents moved to urban from rural areas.
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