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Why North Carolina Failed
North Carolina is described as an unstable and tumultuous place. It seems to have been since the 1600’s. North Carolina was against high taxes and the Internal Revenue Services. How the government put taxes on the land where the North Carolinians worked so hard to keep their land up. This all occurred when King Charles ll was in office. In the late 1600’s in England the tumultuous political royalist had continued to assist King Charles ll in giving the land to eight of his Proprietors. During 1663 the Lord Proprietors were giving land because King Charles ll did not have funds, grants or support from his kingdom to get the land. North Carolina’s land was seized to the Proprietors as a payment. This gave the Proprietors authority and power to govern the cities, counties, and towns. They even had authority to collect taxes, titles, punish crimes in the court system, grant and take away land, and most of all create war against the people in the colony of North Carolina. …show more content…
This was because North Carolina was not like other colonies that were controlled by the Proprietary Board. The board of Proprietors was trying to get the population of North Carolina to grow, but the government was unstable. In 1665 the government wrote up a document stating the “Concession and Agreement.” This agreement was to have North Carolina government councils able to own land and freemen. It seems the government plans did not go as expected with the colony and the profits were growing slow for trading. The Proprietor tried a new plan by writing up another document, “The Fundamental Constitution of Carolina.” This was to protect the properties of the people. The document was also to make the Proprietors gain authority again and to control the counties of North

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