- The most up-to-date history of the state, encompassing events up until 2015
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North Carolina
by Link, William A.Buy New
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Part 1 Colonial North Carolina 1
1 European Invasion 3
2 Origins of North Carolina 24
3 A Slave Society 44
Suggested Readings, Part 61
Document Section, Part 64
Part 2 The Revolutionary Republic 79
4 Immigrants and the Back country World 81
5 The Age of Revolution 101
6 The New Republic 124
Suggested Readings, Part2 146
Document Section, Part 2 149
Part 3 The Civil War Crisis 161
7 Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina 163
8 Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War 184
9 The Civil War 201
Suggested Readings, Part 222
Document Section, Part 227
Part 4 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 237
10 Reconstruction 239
11 Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era 260
12 Populism and the Crisis of the 279
Suggested Readings, Part 300
Document Section, Part 303
Part 5 Modernizing North Carolina 315
13 Progressive North Carolina 317
14 WorldWar I and the 343
15 Depression, New Deal, and WorldWar II 367
Suggested Readings, Part 392
Document Section, Part 395
Part 6 Toward the Twenty-First Century 409
16 Postwar North Carolina 411
17 The Civil Rights Revolution 435
18 Modernizers and Traditionalists 458
Suggested Readings, Part 6 481
Document Section, Part 6 484
Appendix 495
State Symbols 495
Governors 495
United States Senators 498
North Carolina Population, 1790–2010 500
Index 501
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