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16086
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In 1763, English authorities attempted to raise revenue after costly wars and stem illegal smuggling in New England by passing more regulatory customs demands. These regulations were realized in legislature like The Sugar Act and The Stamp Act, which displeased the residents in the American colonies. Further restrictive acts would push disgruntled colonists into war with England and lead to the American Revolution.
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16864
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A new group of southern scholars were known as the \"New Southerners\" and were largely responsible for establishing state agencies that maintained and preserved historic documents. Men such as John Spencer Bassett, Charles B. Aycock, and R.D.W. Connor understood the inherent value in preserving the state's primary documents for scholarship and study and their efforts made the state a leader in historical programs amongst other southern states in the first half of the 20th-century.
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16966
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Archival material, like books, letters and photographs, are susceptible to theft like other historic objects. Dispute over ownership of historic material, court documents related to William Hooper, led to the North Carolina v. B.C. West Jr. in October 1975. The case would reach the North Carolina Supreme Court in March 1977 which upheld the ruling that \"public record cannot be destroyed, defaced, or given up without authority from the source that required it to be made.\"
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21233
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During North Carolina's colonial period members of the Royal Council were deemed 'men of good estates' and therefore the elite of North Carolina politics and society. The Royal Council served as the upper house of the Colonial Assembly as well as a higher court and board of advice and consent to the chief executive.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 49 Issue 1, Jan 1972,
p72-82, il, por, f
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21265
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During his Royal Governorship of North Carolina, which began in 1730, George Burrington ignored the instructions of London and gained many enemies in the process. His appointment, owed to his association with the Duke of Newcastle, was even more surprising based on his 1725 attempt to blow up the house of Proprietary Chief Justice Christopher Gale.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 1, Jan 1974,
p149-158 , il, por, f
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21389
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In colonial North Carolina, road building and militia service laws were a product of a highly divided class system. Wealthy landowners and slave-owners comprised the governmental bodies that decided when roads were built, where they went as well as whom would be exempt from militia and road service duties. Slaves and members of the lower economic classes were required to at least 12 days per year on road service and whites were also required to spend additional time with the militia. These duties often placed a larger economic burden on members of the lower classes.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 4, Oct 1980,
p361-409 , il, por, map, f
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21641
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This biographical essay examines the life and career of Nathaniel Macon, a Warren County planter who was elected three times as speaker of the House of Representatives, served as US senator from North Carolina for 13 years, and presided over the 1835 North Carolina state constitutional convention. In spite of his political success, Macon's role as a planter was the one that gave him the most satisfaction.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 2, Apr 2001,
p187-214, il, por, f
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21674
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In 1791, Nathaniel Macon entered the U.S. House of Representatives and began a 37 year career in Congress. During those years, he spent 24 in the House and 13 in the Senate, and demonstrated a strong degree of Anti-federalism throughout. Macon had a deep suspicion of overarching power and subsequent corruption, supported white male suffrage, desired to protect individual freedoms, feared unfair taxation and patronage, and wanted to protect state sovereignty through the strict interpretation of the Constitution.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 3, July 2004,
p288-312 , il, por, f
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