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for "North Carolina--History--1775-1865"
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7836
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The majority of North Carolinian's delegates were Anti-Federalists who voted to reject the federal constitution in 1788. Out of 268 delegates in North Carolina William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, and William Blount were elected by the General Assembly to serve as founding fathers. The following year opinion shifted and North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the constitution.
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20092
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This article looks at the shared history of North Carolina and Mississippi. Some attention is given to overland travel routes between the two states used after 1783, the settlement of the Mississippi territory, the influence of extant North Carolina on developing Gulf cotton states, and some biographical information on prominent Mississippians who came from North Carolina.
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20717
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This essay attempts to provide an overview of life in the 1850s. A significant amount of attention is given to national and international politics of the day and its effect on the country as a whole.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 34 Issue 3, July 1957,
p255-269, f
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13202
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Written in 1848 and based on the travels of Charles Lanman, this article contains an excerpt from Lanman's book, Letters from the Alleghanies. This is the second article in a series by The State, detailing the mountains and western portion of the state prior to the Civil War. The first part of this series can be found in the September 1954 issue, Volume 22, Number 8, pages 10-11, 45.
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15283
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On the Guilford Battleground near Greensboro is a monument to the exploits of Peter Francisco, giant of the American Revolution. He was said to have performed a deed of unparalleled bravery, cutting down eleven men with his sword, although badly wounded. At the battle of Camden, horses drawing a cannon were killed and Francisco shouldered the gun weighting eleven hundred pounds and carried it where it was needed.
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19648
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An examination of recreational and cultural activities typical to an antebellum North Carolina town including sections addressing public social centers, private social activities, town clubs, sports, and summer resorts.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 6 Issue 1, Jan 1929,
p17-37, f
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19776
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This article looks at the popularity of the religious revival movement in antebellum North Carolina also known as the Great Revival. The article is divided into sections looking at antecedents of the Great Revival, the coming of the Great Revival, the great Revival among the Methodists, the Baptists and the Great Revival, religious cycles, and the psychology of the revival.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 10 Issue 1, Jan 1933,
p21-43, f
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13349
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Written in 1848 as a chapter of the book, Letters from the Alleghanies, Lanman offers a description of Hickory Nut Gorge. Part of a series published by The State, Lanman discusses the removal of the Cherokee Native Americans. A traveler's account of rural encounters, his descriptions offer a glimpse of what it was like in North Carolina during the middle of the 19th century.
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22066
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This article details General Rutherford's 1776 expedition into western North Carolina to combat hostile Indian forces, led by the Cherokee Indian tribe.
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19656
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This article examines the general social attitudes and habits of North Carolina during the antebellum period through the analysis of laws passed, Supreme Court decisions, local newspaper articles and perspectives on North Carolina from neighboring states. The author finds that the most common social characteristics for the period were individualism, conservatism, sectionalism, provincialism, and superstition, and each trait is addressed in its own section.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Apr 1929,
p140-157, f
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19633
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From the close of the American Revolution to the ratification of the United States Constitution there was a deep and increasing conviction among a considerable portion of North Carolinians that certain fundamental rights, based on the law of nature and guaranteed by various charters and statutes of England, were violated and jeopardized. This is the subject of the pamphlet anonymously published in the summer of 1787 under the title, "The Independent Citizen."
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 4 Issue 1, Jan 1927,
p50-94, il, f
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12.South’s Oldest Military Company by MacKethan, Mrs. E. R. The State Vol. 26 Issue 20, March 1959
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24641
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The Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry was organized in 1793 and has been celebrated every year since. It is the oldest military infantry in the South and the second oldest to be organized in the country.
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13318
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Written in 1848 and based on the travels of John Lanman, this article contains an excerpt from Lanman's book, Letters from the Alleghenies. This is the fourth article in a series by The State, detailing the mountains and western portion of the state prior to the Civil War. The first part of this series can be found in the September 1954 issue, Volume 22, Number 8, pages 10-11, 45. The second is in the September 1954 issue, Volume 22, Number 9, pages 10-12, 48. The third is in the October 1954 issue, Volume 22, Number 10, pages 14-15, 27.
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21271
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This article examines the building process as it relates to architecture of the antebellum period with a focus on the manner in which buildings were designed, material manufactured, and labor organized to reveal something of the economic and social conditions of the period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 60 Issue 4, Oct 1983,
p431-456, il, map, f
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22440
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Simeon E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut, presented the commencement address at Wake Forest College on May 21, 1914. His speech surveyed the influence of North Carolina on the development of the Declaration of Independence, the the United States Constitution, and the election process.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 14 Issue 3, January 1915,
p141-154
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