QUESTIONS.
1. What was a principle crop in North Carolina before the cotton gin was invented? What is said of the cultivation of flax?
2. Why did the production of cotton so rapidly take the place of flax?
3. How did the people invest nearly all their means?
4. What can you tell of the various cotton factories?
5. Why have not our people entered more largely into this class of industry?
6. What better future prosperity is yet to be attained by the State?
7. What other great industry is now considered?
8. What had been the production in North Carolina?
9. What is said of the tobacco peddlers?
10. What sentiment animates the people of North Carolina?