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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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County seat
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A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is used in the United States, Canada, Romania, China, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, county towns have a similar function. In the United States, counties are the subdivisions of a state. Depending on the state, counties may provide services to the public, impose taxes. Some types of subdivisions, such as townships, may be incorporated or unincorporated. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the seat of its respective county, a county seat is usually, but not always, an incorporated municipality. The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia, likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey, though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township, in some of the colonial states, county seats include or formerly included Court House as part of their name. Most counties have only one county seat, an example is Harrison County, Mississippi, which lists both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats. The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult, there have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride for the towns involved. There are 36 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states, Coffee County, for example, the official county seat is Greensboro, but an additional courthouse has been located in nearby High Point since 1938. For example, Clearwater is the county seat of Pinellas County, Florida, in New England, the town, not the county, is the primary division of local government. Historically, counties in this region have served mainly as dividing lines for the judicial systems. Connecticut and Rhode Island have no county level of government and thus no county seats, in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine the county seats are legally designated shire towns. County government consists only of a Superior Court and Sheriff, both located in the shire town. Bennington County has two towns, but the Sheriff is located in Bennington. In Massachusetts, most government functions which would otherwise be performed by county governments in other states are performed by town governments. As such, Massachusetts has dissolved many of its county governments, two counties in South Dakota have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county
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Monroe, North Carolina
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Monroe is a fast-growing city and the county seat in Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population jumped from 26,228 in 2000 to 32,797 in 2010 and it is the seat of government of Union County and is also part of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Metropolitan area. Monroe has a form of government. In 1843, the first Board of County Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly, selected an area in the center of the county as the county seat and it was named for James Monroe, the country’s fifth president. It became a center for the agricultural areas of the upland region. Since the early 20th century, Ludwig drums and timpani have been manufactured in Monroe, the Ludwig brothers developed a hydraulic action timpani. In 1916 they invented a spring mechanism—the basis for the current Balanced Action Pedal Timpani, Monroe had the typical segregation of the state following World War II, and local blacks, including Marine veteran Robert F. Williams, began to work to gain civil rights. At this time, the city had an estimated at about 12,000. Williams became president of the local NAACP chapter and began to work to public facilities, starting with the library. These had been built with federal funds during the Great Depression of the 1930s and were operated from revenues derived from taxes on blacks as well as whites. In 1958 Williams hired Conrad Lynn, a civil rights attorney from New York City and they had been convicted of molestation and sentenced until age 21 to a reformatory for kissing a white girl their age on the cheek. This became known as the Kissing Case, the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States. After three months, the governor pardoned the boys, there was rising Ku Klux Klan white violence against the minority black community of Monroe during the civil rights years, and Williams began to advocate black armed defense. Mobs attacked pickets marching for the Freedom Riders at the county courthouse and that year, Williams was accused of kidnapping an elderly white couple, when he sheltered them in his house during an explosive situation of high racial tensions. Williams and his wife fled the United States to avoid prosecution for kidnapping and they went into exile for years in Cuba and in the Peoples Republic of China before returning to the United States in 1969. After Williams returned in 1969 and his trial was scheduled in 1975, North Carolina re-evaluated its case, the Jesse Helms family was prominent among the white community iduring these years. Jesse Helms Sr. served as Police and Fire Chief of Monroe for many years, Jesse Helms, Jr. was born and grew up in the town, where whites were Democrats in his youth. He became a politician and was elected five terms as the U. S, senator from North Carolina, switching to the Republican Party as it attracted conservative whites
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Indian Trail, North Carolina
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Indian Trail is a suburban town in Union County, North Carolina, United States. Founded on March 12,1861, the town holds a history of traveling along the Indian Trail, which ran from Petersburg, Virginia, to the Waxhaw Indians. Indian Trail was first a community, however, German. In 1874, the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was built between the cities Charlotte, North Carolina and Monroe, North Carolina, the railroad, which runs through the town, brought prosperity to the area. Indian Trail was incorporated as a town in 1907, with established city limits based upon a one-half mile radius from the intersection of Indian Trail Road and the Seaboard Railroad. Indian Trail has grown rapidly in the 21st Century, a 2011 CNN article stated that Indian Trails census count jumped from 1,942 in 1990 to 33,518 in 2010. Every Fourth of July the town holds a parade which is one of the biggest parades in the Charlotte metropolitan area. Indian Trail is located at 35°4′37″N 80°40′9″W, located in the southern portion of the Piedmont region of North Carolina, Indian Trail is a rapidly growing suburb approximately 10 miles southeast of Charlotte in Union County. Indian Trail is located in the portion of Union County. It is bordered by seven other municipalities, in addition to unincorporated portions of Union County and its proximity to Charlotte and the regional transportation network it enjoys should continue to generate growth and development within its boundaries. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 22.1 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 33,518 people,11,121 households, the population density was 1,545.4 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 81. 00% White,10. 0% African American,0. 5% Native American,1. 8% Asian,0. 0% Pacific Islander,4. 4% from other races, and 2. 3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10. 9% of the population,18. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.01 and the family size was 3.35. The median age was 33.7 years, females make up 50. 9% of the population. The median income for a household in the town was $66,333, the per capita income for the town was $26,096. About 6. 3% of the population is below the poverty line, RSC Brands Official website of Indian Trail, NC CNN Article about Indian Trail, Making a home in one of North Carolinas fastest-growing places by Jamie Gumbrecht
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2010 United States Census
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The 2010 United States Census, is the twenty-third and currently most recent United States national census. National Census Day, the day used for the census, was April 1,2010. As part of a drive to increase the accuracy,635,000 temporary enumerators were hired. The population of the United States was counted as 308,745,538, as required by the United States Constitution, the U. S. census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. The 2000 U. S. Census was the previous census completed, participation in the U. S. Census is required by law in Title 13 of the United States Code. On January 25,2010, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves personally inaugurated the 2010 Census enumeration by counting World War II veteran Clifton Jackson, more than 120 million census forms were delivered by the U. S. Post Office beginning March 15,2010, the number of forms mailed out or hand-delivered by the Census Bureau was approximately 134 million on April 1,2010. The 2010 Census national mail participation rate was 74%, from April through July 2010, census takers visited households that did not return a form, an operation called non-response follow-up. In December 2010, the Census Bureau delivered population information to the president for apportionment, personally identifiable information will be available in 2082. The Census Bureau did not use a form for the 2010 Census. In several previous censuses, one in six households received this long form, the 2010 Census used only a short form asking ten basic questions, How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1,2010. Were there any additional people staying here on April 1,2010 that you did not include in Question 1, mark all that apply, Is this house, apartment, or mobile home – What is your telephone number. What is Person 1s age and Person 1s date of birth, is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin. Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else, the form included space to repeat some or all of these questions for up to twelve residents total. In contrast to the 2000 census, an Internet response option was not offered, detailed socioeconomic information collected during past censuses will continue to be collected through the American Community Survey. The survey provides data about communities in the United States on a 1-year or 3-year cycle, depending on the size of the community, rather than once every 10 years. A small percentage of the population on a basis will receive the survey each year. In June 2009, the U. S. Census Bureau announced that it would count same-sex married couples, however, the final form did not contain a separate same-sex married couple option
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North Carolina's 9th congressional district
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The 9th Congressional District of North Carolina is a Congressional district in south-central North Carolina. New boundaries were drawn up in Feb,2016 following a US District court decision overturning the existing boundaries, the new district consists of Union, Anson, Richmond, Scotland and Robeson counties, a southeast portion of Mecklenburg county, and most of Cumberland and Bladen counties. Republicans have held this district since 1963, republican Robert Pittenger has represented the district since January 2013. North Carolinas congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Martis, the Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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Time in the United States
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The time zone boundaries and DST observance are regulated by the Department of Transportation. The clocks run by these services are synchronized with each other as well as with those of other international timekeeping organizations. It is the combination of the zone and daylight saving rules, along with the timekeeping services. The use of solar time became increasingly awkward as railways. American railroads maintained many different time zones during the late 1800s, each train station set its own clock making it difficult to coordinate train schedules and confusing passengers. Time calculation became a problem for people travelling by train. Every city in the United States used a different time standard so there were more than 300 local sun times to choose from, Time zones were therefore a compromise, relaxing the complex geographic dependence while still allowing local time to be approximate with mean solar time. Railroad managers tried to address the problem by establishing 100 railroad time zones, operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced at noon on November 18,1883, the conference therefore established the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian and Greenwich Mean Time as the worlds time standard. The US time-zone system grew from this, in all zones referred back to GMT on the prime meridian. It is, within about 1 second, mean time at 0°. It does not observe daylight saving time and it is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, standard time zones in the United States are currently defined at the federal level by law 15 USC §260. The federal law establishes the transition dates and times at which daylight saving time occurs. As of August 9,2007, the time zones are defined in terms of hourly offsets from UTC. Prior to this they were based upon the solar time at several meridians 15° apart west of Greenwich. Only the full-time zone names listed below are official, abbreviations are by common use conventions, the United States uses nine standard time zones. The Central standard time zone, which comprises roughly the Gulf Coast, Mississippi Valley, the Mountain standard time zone, which comprises roughly the states that include the Rocky Mountains
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Eastern Time Zone
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Places that use Eastern Standard Time when observing standard time are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Eastern Daylight Time, when observing daylight saving time DST is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, in the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2,00 a. m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3,00 a. m. EDT leaving a one-hour gap, on the first Sunday in November, at 2,00 a. m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1,00 a. m, southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ruled that daylight saving time would run from the last Sunday of April until the last Sunday in October in the United States, the act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of daylight saving time as of 1987. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time in the United States beginning in 2007. So local times change at 2,00 a. m. EST to 3,00 a. m. EDT on the second Sunday in March, in Canada, the time changes as it does in the United States. However, a handful of communities unofficially observe Eastern Time because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area – Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley. Florida, All of Florida is in the Eastern Time zone except for the portion of the Florida Panhandle west of the Apalachicola River, as the Eastern–Central zone boundary approaches the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the Bay/Gulf county line. Indiana, All of Indiana observes Eastern Time except for six counties in the Chicago metropolitan area. Kentucky, Roughly, the half of the state, including all of metropolitan Louisville, is in the Eastern Time Zone. Historically the entire state observed Central Time, when daylight saving time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all, Tennessee, Most of the eastern third of Tennessee is legally on Eastern Time. Eastern Time is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States, since it includes the capital and the largest city. Major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time, for example, a game time between two teams from Pacific Time Zone will still be posted in Eastern time. Most cable television and national broadcast networks advertise airing times in Eastern time, national broadcast networks generally have two primary feeds, an eastern feed for Eastern and Central time zones, and a tape-delayed western feed for the Pacific Time Zone. The prime time is set on Eastern and Pacific at 8,00 p. m. with the Central time zone stations receiving the eastern feed at 7,00 p. m. local time. Mountain Time Zone stations receive a separate feed at 7,00 p. m. local time, as Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, during the summer months, it has its own feed at 7,00 p. m. local time
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Coordinated Universal Time
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Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated to UTC, is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean time at 0° longitude. It is one of closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, the first Coordinated Universal Time was informally adopted on 1 January 1960. This change also adopted leap seconds to simplify future adjustments, a number of proposals have been made to replace UTC with a new system that would eliminate leap seconds, but no consensus has yet been reached. Leap seconds are inserted as necessary to keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of universal time, see the Current number of leap seconds section for the number of leap seconds inserted to date. The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC and this abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT, while French speakers proposed TUC, the compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time. Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, the westernmost time zone uses UTC−12, being twelve hours behind UTC, the easternmost time zone, theoretically, uses UTC+12, being twelve hours ahead of UTC. In 1995, the nation of Kiribati moved those of its atolls in the Line Islands from UTC-10 to UTC+14 so that the country would all be on the same day. UTC is used in internet and World Wide Web standards. The Network Time Protocol, designed to synchronise the clocks of computers over the internet, computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC as it is more specific than GMT. If only limited precision is needed, clients can obtain the current UTC from a number of official internet UTC servers, for sub-microsecond precision, clients can obtain the time from satellite signals. UTC is also the standard used in aviation, e. g. for flight plans. Weather forecasts and maps all use UTC to avoid confusion about time zones, the International Space Station also uses UTC as a time standard. Amateur radio operators often schedule their radio contacts in UTC, because transmissions on some frequencies can be picked up by many time zones, UTC is also used in digital tachographs used on large goods vehicles under EU and AETR rules. UTC divides time into days, hours, minutes and seconds, days are conventionally identified using the Gregorian calendar, but Julian day numbers can also be used. Each day contains 24 hours and each hour contains 60 minutes, the number of seconds in a minute is usually 60, but with an occasional leap second, it may be 61 or 59 instead
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Daylight saving time
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Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use Daylight Savings Time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring, American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784. New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30,1916, many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s. The practice has both advocates and critics, DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates, industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, with the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics. However, they will have one hour of daylight at the start of each day. Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, DST is also of little use for locations near the equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight in the course of the year. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season, unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos and all Jewish ceremonies. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells, despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST, 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklins day. Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift work job gave him time to collect insects. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk and his solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament Robert Pearce, a select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearces bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, william Sword Frost, mayor of Orillia, Ontario, introduced daylight saving time in the municipality during his tenure from 1911 to 1912. Starting on April 30,1916, the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST as a way to conserve coal during wartime, Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the year
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County (United States)
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In the United States, an administrative or political sub-division of a state is a county, which is a region having specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The term county is used in 48 U. S. states, while Louisiana and Alaska have functionally equivalent subdivisions called parishes, most counties have subdivisions which may include municipalities and unincorporated areas. Others have no divisions, or may serve as a singular consolidated city-county. Some municipalities are in multiple counties, New York City is uniquely partitioned into multiple counties/boroughs, the U. S. federal government uses the term county equivalent to describe non-county administrative or statistical areas that are comparable to counties. Alaskas Unorganized Borough is divided into 11 census areas that are equivalent to counties. As of 2013, the United States has 3,007 counties and 137 county equivalents for a total of 3,144 counties, the number of counties per state ranges from the 3 counties of Delaware to the 254 counties of Texas. Counties have significant governmental functions in all states except Rhode Island and Connecticut, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has removed most government functions from eight of its 14 counties. The county with the largest population, Los Angeles County, counties were among the earliest units of local government established in the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States. Virginia created the first counties in order to ease the workload in Jamestown. Americas oldest intact county court records can be found at Eastville, Virginia, in Northampton County, maryland established its first county, St. Marys, in 1637, and Massachusetts followed in 1643. When independence came, the framers of the Constitution did not provide for local governments, rather, they left the matter to the states. Subsequently, early state constitutions generally conceptualized county government as an arm of the state, in some states, these powers are partly or mostly devolved to the counties smaller divisions usually called townships, though in New York, New England and Wisconsin they are called towns. The county may or may not be able to override its townships on certain matters, the newest county in the United States is the city and county of Broomfield, Colorado, established in 2001 as a consolidated city-county. The newest county-equivalents are the Alaskan boroughs of Skagway established in 2007, Wrangell established in 2008, there are 40 consolidated city-counties in the U. S. Similarly, some of Alaskas boroughs have merged with their principal cities creating unified city-boroughs. Some such consolidations and mergers have created cities that rank among the geographically largest cities in the world, see also, #County names, regarding Louisiana. Independent cities, These are cities that legally belong to no county, Washington, D. C. outside the jurisdiction of any state, has a special status. The city of Washington comprises the entirety of the District of Columbia, when founded in 1801, the District consisted of two counties and three cities. In 1846, Alexandria County – including the then–City of Alexandria – was given back to Virginia, in 1871, the three remaining entities – the City of Washington, Georgetown City, and Washington County – were merged into a consolidated government by an act of Congress
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U.S. state
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A U. S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a geographic territory. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders. States range in population from just under 600,000 to over 39 million, four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are divided into counties or county-equivalents, which may be assigned some local authority but are not sovereign. County or county-equivalent structure varies widely by state, State governments are allocated power by the people through their individual constitutions. All are grounded in principles, and each provides for a government. States possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, Constitution has been amended, and the interpretation and application of its provisions have changed. The general tendency has been toward centralization and incorporation, with the government playing a much larger role than it once did. There is a debate over states rights, which concerns the extent and nature of the states powers and sovereignty in relation to the federal government. States and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a legislature consisting of the Senate. Each state is represented in the Senate by two senators, and is guaranteed at least one Representative in the House, members of the House are elected from single-member districts. Representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census, the Constitution grants to Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50, alaska and Hawaii are the most recent states admitted, both in 1959. The Constitution is silent on the question of states have the power to secede from the Union. Shortly after the Civil War, the U. S. Supreme Court, in Texas v. White, as a result, while the governments of the various states share many similar features, they often vary greatly with regard to form and substance
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution
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Concord, North Carolina
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Concord city in Cabarrus county, in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 79,066 and it is the county seat and the largest city in Cabarrus County. In terms of population, the city of Concord is the second-largest city in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area and is the twelfth largest city in North Carolina, in 2015, Concord was ranked as the city with the 16th fastest growing economy in the United States. The city was a winner of the All-America City Award in 2004, located near the center of Cabarrus County in the Piedmont region, it is 20 miles northeast of Charlotte center city. Concord is the home to some of North Carolinas top tourist destinations, including NASCARs Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, located in todays rapidly growing northeast quadrant of the Charlotte metropolitan area, was first settled about 1750 by German and Scots-Irish immigrants. The name Concord means with harmony and this name was chosen after a lengthy dispute over where the county seat should be located between the German Lutherans and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. By United States standards, Concord is considered an old town, today, markers identifying the original town limits can be seen in the downtown area. As county seat, Concord became a center of trade and retail for the cotton-producing region, the downtown would be crowded with farmers and townfolk, in addition to lawyers and their clients. During the antebellum era, wealthy was built by planters through the cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop, located in the Piedmont, Concord became a site of industrialization with cotton mills in the late 19th century. Among the owners of the new mills in the area were men of the rising black middle-class in Wilmington, North Carolina, Dancy, and others, who organized Coleman Manufacturing Company in 1897. They built and operated what is believed to have been the first cotton mill owned by blacks in the nation and they hoped to promote economic security for people of color. But the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, with attacks on black areas of the city, caused many deaths. In 1900, Dancy was among more than 2000 blacks who left the city permanently after the riot and he moved to Washington, DC, appointed as the federal Recorder of Deeds, and serving until 1910. The mill operated under black ownership through 1904, hitting difficult times after Coleman died, the brick mill building was later taken over by Fieldcrest Cannon. Within the North Union Historic District is Memorial Garden, located on 3 acres, the garden winds through the 200-year-old cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church. From the time of incorporation in the late 1700s through the 1970s, since then, most annexations have taken place west of the center-city area towards Charlotte. Portions of the city limit boundary adjoin the Cabarrus/Mecklenburg County line, Concord is located in western Cabarrus County at 35°24′16″N 80°36′2″W. The city is located in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, land left untended will typically return to native forest land within a few years
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Gastonia, North Carolina
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Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is also the second largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, the population was 71,741 at the 2010 Census. Gastonia is the 13th largest city in North Carolina and it is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area, officially designated the Charlotte Metropolitan Statistical Area. Gastonia has experienced growth, with a population increase between 2000 and 2010 of nearly 8. 2%, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. Gastonia is named for William Gaston, member of the North Carolina Supreme Court, wilson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, was one of the most notable strikes in the history of the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 50.7 square miles, of which 50.5 square miles is land and 0.23 square miles. Gastonia occupies 14% of the area of Gaston County. As of 2010, there were 71,741 people,27,770 households, the population density was 1,420.6 people per square mile. There were 31,238 housing units at a density of 618.6 per square mile. The racial composition of the city was 63. 0% White,27. 8% Black or African American,1. 3% Asian,0. 4% Native American,5. 2% some other race, and 2. 2% two or more races. 9. 6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino American of any race,27. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9. 7% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52, and the family size was 3.05. In the city, the population was out with 24. 7% under the age of 18,8. 9% from 18 to 24,26. 5% from 25 to 44,26. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38.0 years, for every 100 females there were 89.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males, in 2011 the estimated median income for a household in the city was $36,881, and the median income for a family was $44,576. Male full-time workers had an income of $38,151 versus $29,590 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,277,20. 9% of the population and 18. 3% of families were below the poverty line
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South Carolina
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South Carolina /ˌsaʊθ kærəˈlaɪnə/ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the south and west by Georgia across the Savannah River, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U. S. Constitution, doing so on May 23,1788. South Carolina became the first state to vote to secede from the Union on December 20,1860, after the American Civil War, it was readmitted into the United States on June 25,1868. South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and the 23rd most populous U. S. state and its GDP as of 2013 was $183.6 billion, with an annual growth rate of 3. 13%. The capital and largest city is Columbia with a 2013 population of 133,358, South Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England, under whose reign the English colony was first formed, with Carolus being Latin for Charles. There is evidence of activity in the area about 12000 years ago. Along the Savannah River were the Apalachee, Yuchi, and the Yamasee, further west were the Cherokee, and along the Catawba River, the Catawba. These tribes were village-dwellers, relying on agriculture as their food source. The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and clay, about a dozen separate small tribes summered on the coast harvesting oysters and fish, and cultivating corn, peas and beans. Travelling inland as much as 50 miles mostly by canoe, they wintered on the plain, hunting deer and gathering nuts. The names of these survive in place names like Edisto Island, Kiawah Island. The Spanish were the first Europeans in the area, in 1521, founding San Miguel de Gualdape, established with 500 settlers, it was abandoned within a year by 150 survivors. In 1562 French settlers established a settlement at what is now the Charlesfort-Santa Elena archaeological site on Parris Island, three years later the Spanish built a fort on the same site, but withdrew following hostilities with the English navy. In 1629, King Charles I of England established the Province of Carolina an area covering what is now South and North Carolina, Georgia, in the 1670s, English planters from the Barbados established themselves near what is now Charleston. Settlers built rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, settlers came from all over Europe. Plantation labor was done by African slaves who formed the majority of the population by 1720, another cash crop was the Indigo plant, a plant source of blue dye, developed by Eliza Lucas. Meanwhile, in Upstate South Carolina, west of the Fall Line, was settled by farmers and traders. Colonists overthrew the rule, seeing more direct representation
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Charlotte metropolitan area
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The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area/region of North and South Carolina within and surrounding the city of Charlotte. Located in the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States, the Charlotte metropolitan area is known for its auto racing history. The region is headquarters to 8 Fortune 500 and 7 Fortune 1000 companies including Bank of America, Duke Energy, Sealed Air Corporation, Nucor Steel, additional headquarters include Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Cheerwine and Sundrop. It is home to one of the worlds busiest airports, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the Charlotte MSA is the largest in the Carolinas, and the sixth largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern region of the United States behind Washington, D. C. The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia Metropolitan Statistical Area is defined as seven counties in North Carolina, the population of the MSA was 2,426,363 according to 2015 Census estimates. Charlotte is the 17th largest city and 22nd largest metro area in the United States, Charlotte is the 2nd largest city in the Southeast. The aforementioned MSA is the metropolitan area included in the CSA. The term does retain a marketing value, and is also used by many businesses in the area. Metrolina refers to the region includes the cities of, Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia. The term Charlotte USA refers to the 16-county region, which includes 12 counties in North Carolina and 4 counties in South Carolina, the term is championed by the Charlotte Regional Partnership, a non-profit organization made up of both private- and public-sector members from throughout the Charlotte region. This organization represents one of seven officially designated economic development regions in North Carolina and this term, however, is used only sparingly among locals. The official Charlotte metropolitan area includes the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia MSA, the Charlotte CSA includes all the MSA counties along with the following micropolitan areas, Albemarle and Shelby. The Charlotte Regional Partnership also identifies four additional counties to the what they refer to as the Charlotte Region. S, the Charlotte Area Transit System is the local public transit agency that operates bus service that serves Charlotte and its immediate suburban communities in both North and South Carolina. CATS also operates a rail line and is also building a commuter rail network as a supplement to its established bus transit throughout the region. Plans are for it to stretch initially to Mooresville, Pineville, Matthews, charlotte-Douglas International Airport will be connected to the system by streetcar. The Charlotte region is served by 2 major interstate highways. I-40 also passes through the center of Iredell County, which is the region of the Charlotte metro. Other important US highways in the include, US74, US52, US321, US601
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Anson County, North Carolina
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Anson County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26,948, the county was formed in 1750 from Bladen County. It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, like its parent county Bladen, Anson County was originally a vast territory with indefinite northern and western boundaries. Reductions in its extent began in 1753, when the part of it became Rowan County. In 1762 the western part of Anson County became Mecklenburg County, in 1779 the northern part of what remained of Anson County became Montgomery County, and the part east of the Pee Dee River became Richmond County. Finally, in 1842 the western part of Anson County was combined with the part of Mecklenburg County to become Union County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 537 square miles. As of the 2000 Census, Anson County is located entirely in North Carolinas 9th congressional district and is represented by Richard Hudson. As of the census of 2000, there were 25,275 people,9,204 households, the population density was 48 people per square mile. There were 10,221 housing units at a density of 19 per square mile. 0. 83% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,25. 10% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the family size was 3.09. In the county, the population was out with 25. 20% under the age of 18,8. 60% from 18 to 24,29. 00% from 25 to 44,22. 80% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 96.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.80 males, the median income for a household in the county was $29,849, and the median income for a family was $35,870. Males had an income of $27,297 versus $20,537 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,853, about 15. 50% of families and 17. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23. 90% of those under age 18 and 16. 70% of those age 65 or over. There are 11 schools in the Anson County Schools system that serve the students of the county, south Piedmont Community College has a campus on Highway 74 near Polkton that serves Anson County residents
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Mecklenburg County is a county located on the border in the southwestern part of the state of North Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 919,628 and it increased to 1,034,070 as of the 2015 estimate, making it the most populous county in North Carolina and the first county in the Carolinas to surpass 1 million in population. Its county seat and largest city is Charlotte, NOTE, To see information about the political body, the Mecklenburg County Commission see this link, Mecklenburg County Commission. Mecklenburg County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, on September 12,2013, the county welcomed its one millionth resident. Mecklenburg County was formed in 1762 from the part of Anson County. It was named in commemoration of the marriage of King George III to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, due to unsure boundaries, a large part of south and western Mecklenburg County extended into areas that would later form part of the state of South Carolina. In 1768, most of area was designated Tryon County. Determining the final boundaries of these areas between North and South Carolina was a decades-long process. As population increased in the following the American Revolutionary War. Finally, in 1842 the southeastern part of Mecklenburg County was combined with the part of Anson County to become Union County. The Mecklenburg Resolves were adopted on May 31,1775, http, //www. learnnc. org/lp/editions/nchist-revolution/4263 Mecklenburg continues to celebrate the Meck Dec each year in May. The Date of the Meck Dec is also listed on the Flag of North Carolina, from 1945 to 1972, Mecklenburg County sterilized 403 people who were in the care of county facilities, far more than any other county in North Carolina. This was the result of a science of genetic engineering called eugenics. Preventing certain populations from reproducing - those then classified as feeble-minded, criminal, by this time, the eugenics movement had been discredited in most other parts of the United States. In 1971, Mecklenburg County was the site of an important case in the American civil rights movement, swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was a suit filed to force the integration of the public schools in Charlotte. In a case brought by William Capacchione, on behalf of his minor daughter. Later in the case, additional plaintiffs, referred to as Grant intervenors joined the Capacchione suit and this led the School Board to take the unusual position of petitioning the Court claiming that they were still discriminating and therefore should be allowed to continue to bus. The Court rejected the School Boards claim and CMS moved to a neighborhood schools model using magnets to entice voluntary diversity
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Henry Clay
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Henry Clay, Sr. was an American lawyer and planter, statesman, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He served three terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and served as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829. Clay ran for the presidency in 1824,1832 and 1844, however, he was unsuccessful in all of his attempts to reach his nations highest office. Despite his presidential losses, Clay remained a dominant figure in the Whig Party, Clay was a dominant figure in both the First and Second Party systems. After serving two stints in the Senate, Clay won election to the House of Representatives in 1810 and was elected Speaker of the House in 1811. Clay would remain a prominent public figure until his death 41 years later in 1852, a leading war hawk, Speaker Clay favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation into the War of 1812. In 1814, Clays tenure as Speaker was interrupted when Clay traveled to Europe, Clay ran for president in 1824 and lost, finishing fourth in a four-man contest. No candidate received a majority, and so the election was decided in the House of Representatives. Clay maneuvered House voting in favor of John Quincy Adams, who appointed him as Secretary of State. Opposing candidate Andrew Jackson denounced the actions of Clay and Adams as part of a corrupt bargain, Clay returned to the Senate in 1831. He continued to advocate his American System, and become a leader of the opposition to President Andrew Jackson, President Jackson opposed federally-subsidized internal improvements and a national bank as a threat to states rights, and the president used his veto power to defeat many of Clays proposals. In 1832, Clay ran for president as a candidate of the National Republican Party, following the election, the National Republicans united with other opponents of Jackson to form the Whig Party, which remained one of the two major American political parties until after Clays death. In 1844, Clay won the Whig Partys presidential nomination, Clays opposition to the annexation of Texas, partly over fears that such an annexation would inflame the slavery issue, hurt his campaign, and Democrat James K. Polk won the election. Clay later opposed the Mexican–American War, which resulted in part from the Texas annexation, Clay returned to the Senate for a final term, where he helped broker a compromise over the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession. Known as The Great Compromiser, Clay brokered important agreements during the Nullification Crisis, as part of the Great Triumvirate or Immortal Trio, along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise Tariff of 1833, and he was viewed as the primary representative of Western interests in this group, and was given the names Harry of the West and The Western Star. As a plantation owner, Clay held slaves during his lifetime, Henry Clay was born on April 12,1777, at the Clay homestead in Hanover County, Virginia, in a story-and-a-half frame house. It was a home for a common Virginia planter of that time
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Democratic Party (United States)
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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
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Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and was the founder of the Democratic Party. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson served in Congress, as president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the common man against what he saw as a corrupt aristocracy and to preserve the Union. Jackson was born in 1767 somewhere near the border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family. During the American Revolutionary War, Jackson acted as a courier, at age 13, he was captured and mistreated by the British. He moved to Tennessee and practiced as a lawyer, in 1791, he married Rachel Donelson Robards. The couple later learned that Rachels previous husband had failed to finalize their divorce, Jackson served briefly in the U. S. House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate. Upon returning to Tennessee, he was appointed a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court, in 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, and was elected its commander the following year. He built the Hermitage plantation in 1804, in 1806, he killed a man in a duel over a matter of honor regarding his wife. He led Tennessee militia and U. S. Army regulars during the Creek War of 1813-1814, Jackson won a decisive victory in the War of 1812 over the British army at the Battle of New Orleans, making him into a national hero. Because Spanish Florida was a refuge for blacks escaping slavery, who allied with the Seminole Indians, Jackson invaded the territory in 1816 to destroy the Negro Fort. He led an invasion in 1818, as part of the First Seminole War, resulting in the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819. Jackson briefly served as Floridas first Territorial Governor in 1821, Jackson was nominated by several state legislatures to be a candidate for president in 1824. Although he earned a plurality in both the electoral and popular vote against three major candidates, Jackson failed to get a majority and lost in the House of Representatives to John Quincy Adams, Jacksons supporters founded what became the Democratic Party. He ran again for president in 1828 against Adams, building and expanding upon his base of support in the West and South, he won in a landslide. He blamed the death of his wife, Rachel, which occurred after the election, on the Adams campaigners, as president, Jackson faced a threat of secession by South Carolina over the Tariff of Abominations, which Congress had enacted under Adams. In contrast to several of his successors, he denied the right of a state to secede from the union or to nullify federal law. The Nullification Crisis was defused when the tariff was amended and Jackson threatened the use of force if South Carolina attempted to secede. Jackson believed strongly in majority rule and he supported direct election of senators and abolition of the Electoral College, believing that these reforms would provide average citizens with greater power
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United States Census Bureau
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The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U. S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureaus primary mission is conducting the U. S. Census every ten years, in addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U. S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey, furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the Census Bureau. The Bureaus various censuses and surveys help allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and help states, local communities, the Census Bureau is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States. The Census Bureau now conducts a population count every 10 years in years ending with a 0. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections, the Census Bureau is mandated with fulfilling these obligations, the collecting of statistics about the nation, its people, and economy. The Census Bureaus legal authority is codified in Title 13 of the United States Code, the Census Bureau also conducts surveys on behalf of various federal government and local government agencies on topics such as employment, crime, health, consumer expenditures, and housing. Within the bureau, these are known as surveys and are conducted perpetually between and during decennial population counts. The Census Bureau also conducts surveys of manufacturing, retail, service. Between 1790 and 1840, the census was taken by marshals of the judicial districts, the Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office. Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals, in 1902, the temporary Census Office was moved under the Department of Interior, and in 1903 it was renamed the Census Bureau under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The department was intended to consolidate overlapping statistical agencies, but Census Bureau officials were hindered by their role in the department. An act in 1920 changed the date and authorized manufacturing censuses every 2 years, in 1929, a bill was passed mandating the House of Representatives be reapportioned based on the results of the 1930 Census. In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code, by law, the Census Bureau must count everyone and submit state population totals to the U. S. President by December 31 of any year ending in a zero. States within the Union receive the results in the spring of the following year, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau regions are widely used. for data collection, the Census Bureau definition is pervasive. Title 13 of the U. S. Code establishes penalties for the disclosure of this information, all Census employees must sign an affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment. The Bureau cannot share responses, addresses or personal information with anyone including United States or foreign government, only after 72 years does the information collected become available to other agencies or the general public
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Cabarrus County, North Carolina
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Cabarrus /kʌˈbærʌs/ County is a county located in the south-central part of the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 178,011, the county seat is Concord, which was incorporated in 1803. Cabarrus County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, among its significant historic sites is the Reed Gold Mine, a National Historic Landmark. The first gold discovered in the United States was found here in 1799, so much gold was mined that President Andrew Jackson established the US Mint to control it. This was an area of cultivation in the antebellum era. Coleman Manufacturing Company, started in 1897, is believed to be the first cotton mill in the nation to be built, Dancy, and partners primarily from Wilmington, North Carolina, although investors also came from capitalists in the county. The county was formed on December 29,1792 from Mecklenburg County, located in the Piedmont, it was named after Stephen Cabarrus of Chowan County, speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Beginning about 1750, the county was settled mainly by immigrants, Germans on the eastern side and Scotch-Irish in the western area of the county. When it came time to choose a location for the county seat and county government, each ethnic group wanted the county located close to their populations. Stephen Cabarrus wrote to the citizens pleading with them to come together in peace to choose a location for their county seat, a central area of the county was chosen in 1796 and aptly named Concord, a derivative of two French words with and peace. Representative Paul Barringer introduced a bill into the legislature to incorporate Concord. The town of Concord was begun on land owned by Samuel Huie, the first substantiated gold find in America was in 1799 by young Conrad Reed while playing in Little Meadow Creek, located on the Reed farm in southeastern Cabarrus County. According to research, Conrads find was a gold chunk approximately the size of a shoe and his father John Reed took the nugget into Concord to a silversmith, who informed Reed that the rock did not have any value. The elder Reed returned home with it, holding it for three years until a trip in 1802 to Fayetteville, where he sold the nugget to a jeweler for $3.50, over time John Reed learned that the jeweler sold the large nugget for several thousand dollars. Reed returned to Fayetteville insisting on more just compensation and this discovery and news of the sale spurred the beginning of gold mining in the area. Reed deserted, as did many other Hessians and he traveled from Georgia to North Carolina, where he settled in an ethnic German community sometime around 1787 and began farming. Reed first developed placer mining on his property, then underground mining and his facility became known as Reeds Gold Mine. Large amounts of gold were being discovered at the Reed Gold Mine and in mines in the United States
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Stanly County, North Carolina
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Stanly County is a county in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 60,585, Stanly County comprises the Albemarle, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-South Carolina Combined Statistical Area. The site of modern-day Stanly County was originally peopled by small tribes of hunter-gatherers, in early English colonial times, the Stanly County area was politically part of the New Hanover Precinct, out of which the Bladen Precinct was created in 1734. The renamed Bladen County was subdivided to create Anson County in 1750, Stanly County was formed in 1841 from the part of Montgomery County west of the Pee Dee River. It was named for John Stanly of New Bern, who served terms in the North Carolina House of Commons. Whitley was accused of theft and murder in Stanly County and also in Arkansas, following a short manhunt through several states, he was captured by a local posse near Big Lick in 1892. Shortly after his capture and incarceration a mob of citizens gathered at the jail to demand Whitley be turned over to them. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 405 square miles. Rowan County - north Davidson County - northeast Montgomery County - east Anson County - south Union County - south Cabarrus County - west As of the census of 2010, in 2000 there were 22,223 households, and 16,156 families residing in the county. The population density was 147 people per square mile, there were 24,582 housing units at an average density of 62 per square mile. 2. 13% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,24. 30% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 3.00. In the county, the population was out with 25. 00% under the age of 18,8. 40% from 18 to 24,29. 00% from 25 to 44,23. 40% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 97.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.70 males, the median income for a household in the county was $36,898, and the median income for a family was $43,956. Males had an income of $31,444 versus $21,585 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,825, about 8. 10% of families and 10. 70% of the population were below the poverty line, including 14. 10% of those under age 18 and 10. 30% of those age 65 or over. Stanly County is a member of the regional Centralina Council of Governments, as of the 2010 Census, Stanly County is located entirely in North Carolinas 8th congressional district and is currently represented in the 113th United States Congress by Richard Hudson
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Chesterfield County, South Carolina
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Chesterfield County is a county located in the U. S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, its population was 46,734, the county was formed in 1785, but was part of the Cheraws District until 1800, at which time Chesterfield became a district. Under the 1867 state constitution passed during the Reconstruction era, South Carolina districts became counties with home rule and it is located north of the Midlands, on its border with North Carolina. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 806 square miles. The population density was 54 people per square mile, there were 18,818 housing units at an average density of 24 per square mile. 2. 27% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,25. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.54 and the family size was 3.05. In the county, the population was out with 26. 60% under the age of 18,8. 50% from 18 to 24,29. 00% from 25 to 44,23. 90% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 93.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.00 males, the median income for a household in the county was $29,483, and the median income for a family was $36,200. Males had an income of $30,205 versus $20,955 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,233, about 16. 70% of families and 20. 30% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24. 70% of those under age 18 and 24. 20% of those age 65 or over. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 46,734 people,18,173 households, the population density was 58.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 21,482 housing units at a density of 26.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 62. 8% white,32. 6% black or African American,0. 5% American Indian,0. 4% Asian,2. 0% from other races, and 1. 6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 3. 6% of the population, in terms of ancestry,16. 3% were American,6. 8% were English,6. 0% were German, and 5. 9% were Irish. The average household size was 2.52 and the family size was 3.05. The median age was 39.3 years, the median income for a household in the county was $32,979 and the median income for a family was $41,225
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Lancaster County, South Carolina
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Lancaster County /ˈleɪŋkəstər/ is a county located in the U. S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2016 census estimate, its population was 89,594 and its county seat is Lancaster which has an urban population of 23,979. The county was created in 1785, Lancaster County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the Piedmont region, for hundreds of years the Catawba Indians claimed all of present Lancaster County as part of their tribal lands. The Catawba were once considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes, the Catawba and other Siouan peoples are believed to have coalesced as individual tribes in the Southeast. Primarily involved in agriculture, the Catawba were friendly toward early European Immigrants, when the first White people came in the early 1750s they settled between Rum Creek and Twelve Mile Creek. Waxhaw Creek within this area had taken its name from the Waxhaw Indian tribe, the majority of the new settlers were Scots-Irish from Pennsylvania, others from North Carolina and Virginia joined them. Many of the settlers came to South Carolina from Lancaster. They had named their county for the House of Lancaster which had opposed the House of York in the struggles of 1455-85, the House of Lancaster chose the red rose as their emblem while their neighbor, York County, boasts the white rose. A second settlement was made in the part of the present Lancaster County on Hanging Rock Creek. The first grant was made there in 1752, and included the huge overhanging mass of rock from which the creek takes its name. About the time this section was opened up, others came in and settled along Lynches Creek, Little Lynches creek, Flat Creek, Beaver Creek, and lower Camp Creek. In coming to the Lancaster area, the first settlers had to follow old Indian paths, the Rocky River Road is an old route that originated as an Indian path. Today, the Rocky River Road is part of South Carolina Highway 522, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 555 square miles, of which 549 square miles is land and 6.0 square miles is water. It is bounded on the west by the Catawba River and Sugar Creek, the population density was 112 inhabitants per square mile. There were 24,962 housing units at a density of 46 per square mile. 1. 59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,23. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 3.01
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U.S. Route 74
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In the U. S. state of Tennessee and North Carolina, U. S. Route 74 is an east–west United States highway that runs for 515 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Predominantly in North Carolina, it serves as an important highway from the mountains to the sea, connecting the cities of Asheville, Charlotte, US74 was designated in 1927. The 63-mile route travels from the I-24/I-75 interchange, in Chattanooga, northeast to Cleveland, the highway is predominantly freeway or expressway grade four-lane, except between Ocoee and Ducktown, where it is a curvy two-lane mountain highway along the Ocoee River. TDOTs signage for US74 is poor, from the Tennessee state line, US74 traverses across the southern portion of the state, connecting the major cities Asheville, Charlotte, and Wilmington, for a total of 451.8 miles. In western North Carolina, US74 enters the state with a concurrency with US64, in or around October, the fall colors create an influx of more tourists in the region. North of Clyde, US74 merges with Interstate 40 and goes east, in concurrency, after crossing a unique weave intersection with Interstate 85, it joins with US29 and travels through downtown Gastonia along Franklin Boulevard. East of Gastonia, it becomes Wilkinson Boulevard as it go through McAdenville, Cramerton, in Center City, it splits with US29 for Interstate 277 along the John Belk Freeway. East of Center City, it goes solo again along Independence Freeway/Boulevard to Matthews, crossing the Pee Dee River and into the Sandhills region, US74 meets up with Future Interstates 73/74, in Rockingham. After a future interchange near NC38 that will end its overlap with Interstate 73, US 74/Future I-74 continues southeast, bypassing Laurinburg and this is one of only two instances of similarly-numbered U. S. and Interstate routes being designated on the same road. Near Chadbourn, US74 overlaps with US76, which continue mostly together till Wrightsville Beach, the highway connects the cities and towns of Whiteville, Lake Waccamaw, and Wilmington. The road through the Cape Fear region is flat, surrounded by parts of the Green Swamp, US74 overlaps with two corridors that are part of the Appalachian Development Highway System, which is part of Appalachian Regional Commission. Corridor A – From I-285, in Sandy Springs, Georgia, to I-40, near Clyde, US74 overlap from US23, in Dillsboro, to I-40, near Clyde, it is also completed with divided four-lane limited-access and controlled-access sections. This corridor is signed as Appalachian Highway, in text on blue background. Corridor K – From I-75, in Cleveland, Tennessee, to US23, in Dillsboro, the entire 127. 7-mile section of US74 is authorized for ADHS funding. The majority of the route is a four-lane limited-access road, with a section that is controlled-access between Bryson City and Cherokee, current two-lane sections that are impending improvements are, Ocoee River to Ducktown and the Nantahala Gorge. In North Carolina, this corridor is signed as Appalachian Highway, US74 overlaps 38 miles of the byway from Marble to Bryson City. The byway also overlaps with US19 and US129, US74 features several dedicated bridges and stretches of highway throughout its route. American Indian Highway – official North Carolina name of the 19 miles section of US 74/I-74 in Robeson County and it is named to honor the large American Indian population in Robeson County
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U.S. Route 601
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U. S. Route 601 is a north–south United States highway that runs for 316.3 miles from U. S. Route 321, near Tarboro, South Carolina, to U. S. Route 52, in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Established in 1927 as an original US Highway, the routing was from US1, in Cheraw, to US 17/US76. In 1932, US601 was extended north into North Carolina, in North Carolina US601 was placed on concurrency with almost all of NC80, from the South Carolina state line, near McFarlan, to downtown Mount Airy. In 1934, NC80 was expunged from US601, in 1935, most of US601 was replaced by the arrival of US52. From Salisbury, North Carolina to Florence, South Carolina, the route was converted to US52, around 1952, US601 was extended south from Salisbury. Starting with a concurrency with US29 to Kannapolis, from there it followed US 29A to downtown Concord, replacing NC151, it continues south through Monroe and to the state line. In South Carolina, US601 returns by replacing SC151 from the border to Pageland, from there it replaced SC902 and part of SC265 to Kershaw. Between Kershaw and Camden, it overlaps with US521, replacing SC26 from Camden to Orangeburg, then in concurrency with US301 to Bamberg. Then finally replacing SC36 to US321, where it continues, in 1965, US601 was realigned on new road bypassing west of downtown Concord, leaving a business loop. In 1970, US601 was realigned on new road bypassing east of Dobson, in 1974, US601 was extended to Interstate 95 in Hardeeville, however, by 1977, US601 was truncated to its current southern terminus at US321, near Tarboro. In 1979, US601 was rerouted west of Salisbury, with concurrency with US70, Innis Street was downgraded to secondary status. In the late 1980s, US601 was rerouted onto Interstate 85, in Salisbury from exit 68 to exit 74, in 1999, US601 was truncated to its current northern terminus at US52 in Mount Airy
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North Carolina Highway 16
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North Carolina Highway 16 is a primary state highway in the U. S. state of North Carolina. Traveling north–south, it connects the cities of Charlotte, Conover, Taylorsville, Wilkesboro and Jefferson, NC16 is part of a three-state highway 16, that totals 475 miles, from Waxhaw, North Carolina to St. Marys, West Virginia. NC16 begins as a road in Waxhaw, from its intersection with NC75, it travels north along Broome Street to Weddington. After crossing the Union-Mecklenburg county line, it enters Charlottes city limit, along Providence Road, NC16 connects with I-485 and NC51. In the Cherry neighborhood, Providence Road becomes 3rd Street, at the intersection of Charlottetowne Avenue, northbound NC16 changes over to 4th Street, while southbound remains on 3rd Street. As NC16 enters Uptown Charlotte, it merges with I-277/US74, in the Oakview Terrace neighborhood, NC16 connects with I-85. In the Paw Creek neighborhood, NC16 connects again with I-485 before leaving the Charlotte city limits, crossing Rozzelles Ferry Bridge at Mountain Island Lake/Catawba River, NC16 enters Gaston County. At Lucia, NC16 Business splits from mainline NC16, NC16 through Gaston, Lincoln and southeast Catawba County is a four-lane expressway, with superstreet design at some at-grade intersections. Speed limit is 65 miles per hour on this portion of highway, between Killian Crossroads and Newton, NC16 drops down from four-lane to two-lane for 9. 1-mile. Near Newton, NC16 Business splits and follows the old alignment through downtown Newton and Conover, after crossing I-40, NC16 Business rejoins mainline NC16, continuing north as a two-lane rural highway. At Lookout Shoals Lake/Catawba River, NC16 enters Alexander County, traveling through Millersville and Isenhour Park, NC16 connects with US64 and NC90 in Taylorsville. Continuing north, the highway meanders through the Brushy Mountains, entering Wilkes County at Kilby Gap, at Moravian Falls, NC18 merges with NC16 as the highway straightens out towards Wilkesboro. At US421, switches concurrency as NC18 continues into downtown Wilkesboro, after 4 miles, NC16 splits with US421, which continues towards Boone. In a northwesterly direction, NC16 travels through Millers Creek and Wilbar before ascending along Piney Ridge, immediately entering Ashe County is the Blue Ridge Parkway followed by NC163 towards West Jefferson. Continuing north, through Glendale Springs, NC16 joins NC88 in Index, then goes northeasterly to Jefferson, after 1.32 miles, NC16 splits from US221, which continues on towards Sparta. Continuing 12 miles north, it reaches the Virginia state line near Grassy Creek, where it continues on as SR16, towards Mouth of Wilson. NC16 was established in 1921 as a state highway, traveling from SC16, at the South Carolina state line, north through Gastonia, Dallas and Lincolnton, to NC10. In 1926, NC16 was rerouted along Aspen Street in Lincolnton towards High Shoals, in 1929, NC16 was extended north through Taylorsville and Wilkesboro, replacing NC67, then northwest through Jefferson and then west to the Tennessee state lane, replacing NC68
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North Carolina Highway 75
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North Carolina Highway 75 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. Its entire length runs through Union County and serves as the connector between the towns of Waxhaw, Mineral Springs, and Monroe. The route roughly parallels a CSX railline for its entire span, NC75 starts at the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, near Hancock. In South Carolina, it continues as SC75 for 8.2 miles to SC5, heading east from the state line, it becomes South Main Street in Waxhaw, where it connects with the southern terminus of NC16, at Broome Street. Passing the Museum of the Waxhaws just outside town, it continues east to the town of Mineral Springs and it then goes northeast, passing Rocky River Road towards Monroe, where it ends abruptly at an auxiliary road to NC200. Before August 2011, NC75 continued into downtown Monroe, ending at Charlotte Avenue, the entire route, with exception of within Waxhaw city limits, is known and labeled as the Waxhaw Highway. The second and current NC75 was established in 1934 as a renumbering of NC25, around 1957, NC75 was extended east two blocks to NC200, replacing part of US 74A. By 1962, NC75 was extended again along Haynes Street/Skyway Drive to US 74/US601, in concurrency with NC84, between 1969 and 1982, the eastern terminus was moved back to Charlotte Avenue. On August 2011, the terminus of NC75 was truncated at the auxiliary road to NC200 after its completion as a bypass around Monroe. The first NC75 was a state highway, it traversed from NC18, in Lenoir, to the Virginia state line. It went across the state, through cities and towns including Statesville, Asheboro, Pittsboro, Chapel Hill. In 1927, NC90 replaced NC75 from Lenoir to Pittsboro while it was rerouted south. In 1934, NC75 was decommissioned, replaced by US220, NC73, NC2, North Carolina Highway 25 was an original state highway that traversed from NC20, in Monroe, southwest to SC26, immedietly across the state line. Around 1929, NC25 was rerouted from Rehobeth Road to a more direct west route into South Carolina, in 1934, the highway was renumbered as NC75. The entire route is in Union County, media related to North Carolina Highway 75 at Wikimedia Commons NCRoads. com, N. C.25 NCRoads. com, N. C.75
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North Carolina Highway 84
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North Carolina Highway 84 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. It serves to connect the town of Weddington to the city of Monroe, NC84 begins at an intersection with NC16 in Weddington, carrying the name Weddington Road. It carries two undivided lanes of traffic eastward, with a 35 miles per hour speed limit before leaving town, immediately after its western terminus is a roundabout with Weddington–Matthews Road. The route also passes by Weddingtons town hall, the route then enters wooded land, serving mostly homes along its route with a few open fields along the way. The route then passes through Wesley Chapel, where it serves a shopping area, as it nears Monroe, it connects with NC200, where it ends. Established in 1936 as a new routing, it traveled from NC262 to U. S. Route 74. Between 1956 and 1957, NC84 was extended two blocks to Main Street, replacing part of US 74A to NC200, by 1962, NC84 was extended north to US74, with NC200 along Hayne Street/Skyway Drive. Sometime between 1969-1982, the terminus was moved back to Charlotte Avenue. In August 2011, the terminus of NC84 was truncated at NC200 after its completion as a bypass around Monroe. The entire route is in Union County, media related to North Carolina Highway 84 at Wikimedia Commons
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North Carolina Highway 200
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North Carolina Highway 200 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. The highway runs north–south from the South Carolina state line near the community of JAARS, to U. S. Route 601 near Concord. NC200 traverses 50.1 miles, starting at the South Carolina state line, through the city of Monroe, and the towns of Stanfield and Locust, before ending at US601 near Concord. For its length, it is a rural highway except in Monroe where it is a four-lane road from Charlotte Avenue to US74. Established in 1930, it traveled from Monroe at US 74/NC 20/NC 25/NC151 south to the South Carolina state line where it changed into SC93, between 1931-36, NC200 was realigned north of Old Highway Road near Jackson. In 1936, the highway was extended north via Franklin Street, Church Street, Winchester Street, in 1942, the highway was extended again north to current terminus at NC151. About 1958, NC200 was rerouted in Monroe to follow Morrow Road and Haynes Street onto new bypass US 74/US601, by 1982, it had reverted to follow along Charlotte Avenue and Church Street. NC200 was rerouted northwest on a new road around downtown Monroe in August 2011 utilizing Martin Luther King Boulevard, the old alignment, Lancaster Avenue and Charlotte Avenue to Franklin Street, was downgraded to a secondary road. NC75 was extended, replacing NC200 from Franklin Street to Haynes Street, via Charlotte Avenue, NC207 was also extended, replacing NC200 from Church Street to US 74/US601, along Haynes Street/Skyway Drive
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North Carolina Highway 205
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North Carolina Highway 205 is a north–south state highway in the North Carolina Piedmont. It traverses 22 miles in Stanly and Union counties, NC205 is a two-lane rural highway that goes through mostly farmland, as it connects the towns of Marshville, Oakboro, and Red Cross. Established in 1935, it is the second incarnation NC205, in the late 1940s, it was extended southwest along Main Street to the new alignment of US74, it then changed by 1953 onto a new extension of Elm Street to US74, leaving Main Street. The first NC205 was a state highway, connecting Kings Mountain to Grover. In 1926, US29 was added to all of NC205, in late 1934, NC205 was dropped, leaving behind US29 and NC216
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North Carolina Highway 207
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North Carolina Highway 207 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. It is entirely within the boundaries of Union County and serves to connect the city of Monroe, North Carolina to the city of Pageland, from the North Carolina-South Carolina state line, NC207 is a two-lane rural highway traversing north through rolling hills of farmland. Once it enters Monroe city limits, it becomes Haynes Street, at Franklin Street, the road widens to four-lanes. Outside Monroe city limits, it is known and labeled as Wolf Pond Road, the second and current NC207 was established in 1948 as a new primary route from the South Carolina state line to US 74/NC 151/NC200 in Monroe. The highway is a continuation of SC207, which predates it, between 1958-62, NC207 was truncated at Morrow Street, and then was extended to Church Street between 1969 and 1982. On August 2011, NC207 was extended along Skyway Drive to US 74/US 601/NC200, the first NC207 was created in 1926 as a short route from Forest City, North Carolina south to the South Carolina state line near Chesnee, South Carolina. This route was numbered as NC206 but was changed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation for reasons unknown. Before being eliminated in 1933 with many state routes, US221 was selected to cover its span. This span was later re-signed as US 221A when a newer, more direct route was constructed bypassing Forest City, the entire route is in Union County. Media related to North Carolina Highway 207 at Wikimedia Commons
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North Carolina Highway 218
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North Carolina Highway 218 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. The highway runs east–west from Mint Hill to Polkton, NC218 traverses 31.6 miles, starting in Mint Hill, it goes through northern Union County, then ends in Polkton. The entire route is a rural highway and is a significant truck route. It also has seasonal beach bound traffic, in the early 1940s, it was extended in Polkton when US74 was rerouted further south from town. In the 1960s, NC218 was moved onto a new extension of Williams Street in Polkton, leaving Old U. S.74
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North Carolina Highway 522
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North Carolina Highway 522 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. The highway runs north–south from the South Carolina state line, near Sapps Crossroads to NC200 in Roughedge, NC522 is a short 5. 84-mile two-lane rural highway in Union County, passing through an area of mixed forest and farmland. Established as a new routing around 1951, it is complementary extension of South Carolina Highway 522. The entire route is in Union County, media related to North Carolina Highway 522 at Wikimedia Commons NCRoads. com, N. C.522
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North Carolina Highway 742
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North Carolina Highway 742 is a primary state highway in the state of North Carolina. It connects the city of Wadesboro with the towns of Oakboro and Chesterfield, NC742 is a predominantly two-lane rural highway that begins at the South Carolina state line, where continuing south on South Carolina Highway 742 would lead to Chesterfield. In Wadesboro, it first runs concurrent with NC109 before going through the downtown area, at the intersection of Caswell and Greene Streets, NC742 switches from NC109, which continues north to Mount Gilead, onto U. S. Route 52 and US74. 1.1 miles later, NC742 splits from US74, after another three-tenths mile and passing over the CSX rail line, NC742 splits with US52, which continues north towards Albemarle. For the next 17 miles, NC742 travels through farmlands of northwestern Anson County, NC742 continues through the northeastern corner of Union County for 2.7 miles, with no major junctions. After crossing the Rocky River, it enters Stanly County,2.3 miles later it crosses into Oakboro city limits, as it nears its end in downtown Oakboro, it connects with NC138 which towards Aquadale and Albemarle. Two blocks further, it ends at the intersection of Main and Second Street, with NC205, NC742 was established in 1936 as a new primary routing from US74 in Wadesboro to NC205 in Oakboro. Around 1947, NC742 was extended south, over part of US74 and NC109, to the South Carolina state line, where it continues south as SC742. In 1996, the routings of US52 and NC742 were adjusted in Wadesboro, they were removed from Salisbury Street, media related to North Carolina Highway 742 at Wikimedia Commons NCRoads. com, N. C.742
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1860 United States Census
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The United States Census of 1860 was the eighth Census conducted in the United States starting June 1,1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321, the total population included 3,953,761 slaves, representing 12. 6% of the total population. By the time the 1860 census returns were ready for tabulation, as a result, Census Superintendent Joseph C. G. Kennedy and his staff produced only an abbreviated set of public reports, without graphic or cartographic representations. The statistics did allow the Census staff to produce a display, including preparing maps of Southern states. These maps displayed militarily vital topics, including population, slave population, predominant agricultural products. The 1860 census Schedule 1 was one of two schedules that counted the population of the United States, the other was Schedule 2, aggregate data for small areas, together with compatible cartographic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System. National data reveals that farmers made up nearly 10% of utilized occupations, farm laborers represent the next highest percent with 3. 2%, followed by general laborers at 3. 0%. More localized data shows that other occupations were common, in the town of Essex, Massachusetts, a large section of the women in the labor force were devoted to shoe-binding, while for men the common occupations were farming and shoe-making. IPUMS data also notes that the share of the population that had enrolled in school or marked as Student stood at 0. 2%. The census of 1860 was the last in which much of Southern wealth was held as slaves—still legally considered property, G. G. Kennedy U. S. Federal Cens us Mortality Schedules 1850-1880 Adam Goodheart, The Census of Doom, NY Times
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1890 United States Census
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The Eleventh United States Census was taken beginning June 2,1890. The data was tabulated by machine for the first time, the data reported that the distribution of the population had resulted in the disappearance of the American frontier. Data was entered on a machine readable medium, punched cards, the total population of 62,947,714, the family, or rough, count, was announced after only six weeks of processing. The public reaction to this tabulation was disbelief, as it was believed that the right answer was at least 75,000,000. The United States census of 1890 showed a total of 248,253 Native Americans living in America, down from 400,764 Native Americans identified in the census of 1850. The 1890 census announced that the region of the United States no longer existed. Up to and including the 1880 census, the country had a frontier of settlement, by 1890, isolated bodies of settlement had broken into the unsettled area to the extent that there was hardly a frontier line. This prompted Frederick Jackson Turner to develop his Frontier Thesis, the original data for the 1890 Census is no longer available. Almost all the schedules were damaged in a fire in the basement of the Commerce Building in Washington. Some 25% of the materials were presumed destroyed and another 50% damaged by smoke, the damage to the records led to an outcry for a permanent National Archives. The Librarian was asked by the Bureau to identify any records which should be retained for historical purposes, congress authorized destruction of that list of records on February 21,1933, and the surviving original 1890 census records were destroyed by government order by 1934 or 1935. The other censuses for which information has been lost are the 1800 and 1810 enumerations. Mayo-Smith, Richmond, The Eleventh Census of the United States
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1910 United States Census
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The 1910 Census switched from a portrait page orientation to a landscape orientation. The column titles in the form are as follows, LOCATION. Number of dwelling house in order of visitation, Number of family in order of visitation. NAME of each person whose place of abode on April 15,1910, was in this family, enter surname first, then the given name and middle initial, if any. Include every person living on April 15,1910, omit children born since April 15,1910. Relationship of this person to the head of the family, whether single, married, widowed, or divorced. Number of years of present marriage, Mother of how many children, Number born. Mother of how children, Number now living. Place of birth of each person and parents of each person enumerated, if born in the United States, give the state or territory. If of foreign birth, give the country, place of birth of this Person. Place of birth of Father of this person, place of birth of Mother of this person. Year of immigration to the United States, whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken. Trade or profession of, or particular kind of work done by person, as spinner, salesman, laborer. General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which this works, as cotton mill, dry goods store, farm. Whether as employer, employee, or work on own account, whether out of work on April 15,1910. Number of weeks out of work during year 1909, attended school any time since September 1,1909. Whether a survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy, special Notation, In 1912, New Mexico and Arizona would become the 47th and 48th states admitted to the Union. The 1910 population count for each of these areas was 327,301 and 204,354 respectively
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1920 United States Census
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In 1929, Congress passed the Reapportionment Act of 1929 which provided for a permanent method of reapportionment and fixed the number of Representatives at 435. The original census enumeration sheets were microfilmed by the Census Bureau in the 1940s, the microfilmed census is available in rolls from the National Archives and Records Administration. Several organizations also host images of the census online. Microdata from the 1920 census are available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files,1921 U. S Census Report Contains 1920 Census results Historic US Census data 1920 Census,1920 United States Census for Genealogy & Family History Research 1920 Census
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1930 United States Census
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The original census enumeration sheets were microfilmed by the Census Bureau in 1949, after which the original sheets were destroyed. The microfilmed census is located on 2,667 rolls of microfilm, several organizations also host images of the microfilmed census online, and digital indices. Microdata from the 1930 census are available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System
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1940 United States Census
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The census date of record was April 1,1940. A number of new questions were asked including where people were 5 years before, highest educational grade achieved and this census introduced sampling techniques, one in 20 people were asked additional questions on the census form. Other innovations included a field test of the census in 1939, the 1940 census collected the following information, In addition, a sample of individuals were asked additional questions covering age at first marriage, fertility, and other topics. Full documentation on the 1940 census, including forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Following completion of the census, the original sheets were microfilmed. As required by Title 13 of the U. S. Code, non-personally identifiable information Microdata from the 1940 census is freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Also, aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, on April 2, 2012—72 years after the census was taken—microfilmed images of the 1940 census enumeration sheets were released to the public by the National Archives and Records Administration. The records are indexed only by enumeration district upon initial release, several organizations are compiling indices, why the huge interest in the 1940 Census. 1940 Census Questions Hosted at CensusFinder. com
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Union County, North Carolina
