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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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19599
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In this installment, documents pertaining to the 1788 Hillsboro Convention are reprinted. The convention met to discuss the Federal Constitution which the state did not ratify until November 21, 1789.
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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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22527
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The State Navy of North Carolina and her privateers during the American Revolution contributed significant resources to the cause, but records of their activities are scarce.
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22529
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This short collection publishes, possibly for the first time, several letters and documents pursuant to a gathering in Palmyra, Halifax County, North Carolina which planned to declare for secession prior to South Carolina's declaration in 1860.
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22474
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William Alexander Graham was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1804. Graham achieve much in the way of public service during his lifetime becoming Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of the United States Navy, Senator of the United States, Senator of the Confederate States, and nominee of the Whig Party for the Vice Presidency.
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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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22428
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The state of Franklin flourished from 1784 to 1787. Promoted by many inhabitants from the western most settlements of North Carolina, it led the creation of modern day Tennessee.
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22409
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In 1784 after the end of the Revolutionary War, attempts to establish normalcy were plagued by civil unrest and violence. Western settlers attempted to secede from North Carolina and form the state of Franklin. This movement was marked by violence from both sides before being resolved in 1787.
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22330
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Colonial North Carolina politician Joseph Hewes enjoyed an undeserved reputation for being slow to embrace the cause independence.
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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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