But they needed money to buy the land The money came from the legislatures of Tennessee and North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Hundreds of the things Blackbeard used on Queen Anne's Revenge can be seen at the North Carolina Maritime Museum.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

The Institute for International Maritime Research, based in North Carolina, is looking for more objects from the colonial period.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

No southern governor, except William Gist of South Carolina, seemed willing to lead the South out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Senator John C.Calhoun of South Carolina said the committee should write a declaration explaining the position of the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The writer John Grisham gave many words of advice to students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Not so in other southern states. In Tennessee,Georgia, and North Carolina, Democrats used threats and violence to win elections.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Kirsten Kennedy,housing director at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,says all first-year undergraduates there have to live in a dorm.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

This week in our series, Frank Oliver and Larry West tell what happened after South Carolina left the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

A North Carolina lawyer named Phil Evans organized a group called the First Colony Foundation to raise money for this purpose.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Early in October, the governor of South Carolina, William Gist, wrote letters to the governors of other southern states.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Delegates to the convention would make the final decision if South Carolina would remain in the Union or secede.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The attorney general and the secretary of state threatened to resign if President Buchanan gave in to South Carolina's demands.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08