Economy

Economy
North Carolina's Economy revolved around Carolina's rivers and ports.
Before the eight Lords and Proprietors went to rule Carolina they had to hire someone to tell them what North Carolina was like and to help get people to go to start their economy, William Hilton of Barbados was hired. Hilton came back with wonderful tales to get the people to leave England. Hilton reported what was in the colony “as good tracts of land, dry, well wooded , pleasant and delightful as we have seen anywhere in the world… with abundance of deer and turkeys everywhere.” The Lord Proprietors had to advertise Hilton's words a lot in England to get people to go.
In 1660 England started to make rules for trade so the Parliament passed the Navigation Act of 1660. In this act the products made by the colonists could only be sold in England and the merchants buying the products got to pick there price. This made the people mad. Then they decided to pass a second law The Plantation Duty Act. In this law if you grew tobacco you would pay a tax to ship it. This made them even more mad.
In 1668 the Great Deed of Grant was passed. This would make renting land less difficult, just like Virgina’s policey. This was made to get more people to come. Finally in 1670 more colonists were coming, most of them going to the south.South Carolina attracted more people because they have more harbors and it was easier to ship. South Carolina grew more quickly than the north, so North Carolina had only 5,000 people.
Albermarle has every thing except a harbor, so people shipped things that needed to be shipped across the ocean to Virgina's harbors. Harbors where rare in North Carolina because the outer banks is hard to get through, you can get caught in a bank. The colonies major production was shipping, even if they didn’t have harbors. North Carolina also produced indigo, rice, pine, pine tar from forests (for the army), cotton, and tobacco. Soon slaves started farming so it was cheaper to produce.
More people where coming because of North Carolina's first town Bath. It was placed at the mouth of the Palico River. The towns started to spread all across North Carolina. As the towns where growing the Indians got mad because there land was downsized. Soon the Indians attacked and many towns were left in ruins. This marked the Tuscarora war. The Indians were defeated in 1713. Soon the colonists of Albermarle believed the government was only interested in making money not the people, so they took over the government and ran the county by them selves for a year.
Right before the Revolutionary War North Carolina became the fastest growing colony.People were coming from the north from Virgina. There were 100,000 people.