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This article is about the history of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
For information on the state today, see .
Map of the coast of
and North Carolina, drawn
by , based on map by
The history of North Carolina from prehistory to the present covers the experiences of the people who have lived in the territory that now comprises the U.S. state of .
Before 200 C.E., residents were building , which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient
established by 1000 C.E. in the Piedmont, continued to build or add onto such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far flung regional trading networks. Historically documented tribes in the North Carolina region included the -speaking tribes of the coastal areas, such as the , , , , , , and others, who were the first encountered by the E -speaking ,
and Southeastern
tribes, such as the , , , , and .
Spanish attempts to settle the interior, with several forts built by the
expedition in the 1560s, ended when the Indians destroyed the forts and killed most of the garrisons. Nearly two decades later, English colonists began to settle the coastal areas, starting with a charter in 1584.
began two small settlements in the late 1580s, but they failed. Some mystery remains as to what happened to the "" of , but most historians think a resupply ship was delayed. By 1640 some growth took place with colonists migrating from Virginia, who moved into the area of . In 1663 the king granted a charter for a new colony named Carolina in honor of his father . He gave ownership to the .
Reconstructed royal governor's mansion, , in
North Carolina developed a system of representative government and local control by the early 18th century. Many of its colonists resented British attempts after 1765 to levy taxes without representation in Parliament. The colony was a Patriot base during the , and its legislature issued the , which authorized North Carolina delegates to the
to vote for independence from Britain. Loyalist elements were suppressed, and there was relatively little military activity until late in the war.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, North Carolina remained a rural state, with no cities and few villages. Most whites operated small subsistence farms, but the eastern part of the state had a growing class of planters, especially after 1800 when cotton became highly profitable due to the invention of the cotton gin, which enabled cultivation of short-staple cotton in the uplands. All cotton cultivation as a commodity crop was dependent on slave labor of African Americans. Politically the state was highly democratic, as heated elections (among adult white men) pitted the Democratic east versus the Whiggish west. After the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, North Carolina seceded from the United States and joined the . More soldiers from North Carolina fought for the Confederacy during the
than from any other state, but few major battles were fought here. During the early years of , strides were made at integrating the newly freed slaves into society. Whites regained political power by violence and in 1899,
through a new constitution, imposing
and white supremacy.
strengthened in the 1950s and 1960s, and it had strong supporters and activists in North Carolina. Events such as the
protest at the F.W. Woolworth's store in
would become a touchstone for the movement. The , a central organization in the movement, was founded at
in . Following passage of national civil rights legislation to enforce suffrage, in 1973,
was elected in Raleigh as the first African-American mayor of a major southern city.
, an example of a -style ceremonial mound in North Carolina.
The earliest discovered human settlements in what eventually became North Carolina are found at the
near the town of
in the south-central part of the state.
of the site has not been possible. But, based on other dating methods, such as
and the existence of , the site has been dated to approximately 8000 B.C.E., or 10,000 years old.
Spearpoints of the Dalton type continued to change and evolve slowly for the next 7000 years, suggesting a continuity of culture for most of that time. During this time, settlement was scattered and likely existed solely on the
level. Toward the end of this period, there is evidence of settled , such as plant domestication and the development of pottery.
From 1000 B.C.E. until the time of European settlement, the time period is known as the "Woodland period". Permanent villages, based on settled agriculture, were developed throughout the present-day state. By about 800 C.E., towns were fortified throughout the
region, suggesting the existence of organized tribal warfare. An important site of this late-Woodland period is the , an archaeologically rich site occupied from about 1100 to 1450 C.E. by the
Map of North America by
after an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating "Tera Florida" from "Francesca" is the
of North Carolina.
is labeled "C. de la Foresto".
The earliest exploration of North Carolina by a European expedition is likely that of
in 1524. An Italian from , Verrazzano was hired by French merchants in order to procure a sea route to bring silk to the city of . With the tacit support of , Verrazzano sailed west on January 1, 1524 aboard his ship
ahead of a flotilla that numbered three ships. The expedition made landfall at , and Verrazzano reported of his explorations to the King of France,
"The seashore is completely covered with fine sand [15 feet] deep, which rises in the shape of small hills about fifty paces wide... Nearby we could see a stretch of country much higher than the sandy shore, with many beautiful fields and planes[sic] full of great forests, some s and the trees have so many colors, and are so beautiful and delightful that they defy description."
Verrazzano continued north along the , making periodic explorations as he sought a route further west towards China. When he viewed the
Sounds opposite the Outer Banks, he believed them to be the Pacific O his reports of such helped fuel the belief that the westward route to Asia was much closer than previously believed.
Just two years later, in 1526, a group of Spanish colonists from
landed at the mouth of a river they called the "Rio Jordan", which may have been the . The party consisted of 500 men and women, their , and horses. One of their ships wrecked off the shore, and valuabl this coupled with illness and rebellion doomed the colony. Ayllón died on October 18, 1526 and the 150 or so survivors of that first year abandoned the colony and attempted to return to Hispaniola. Later explorers reported finding their rem as the dead were cast off during the return trip.
first explored west-central North Carolina during his
expedition. His first encounter with a native settlement in North Carolina may have been at
near modern . In 1567, Captain Juan Pardo led an expedition from
at , then the capital of the Spanish colony in the Southeast, into the interior of North Carolina, largely following De Soto's earlier route. His journey was ordered to claim the area as a Spanish colony, pacify and convert the natives, as well as establish another route to protect silver mines in Mexico (the Spanish did not realize the distances involved). Pardo went toward the northwest to be able to get food supplies from natives.
Pardo and his team made a winter base at
(near , in ), which he renamed Cuenca. They built
and left 30 men, while Pardo traveled further, establishing five other forts. In 1567, Pardo's expedition established a mission called
in what is now . Pardo returned by a different route to Santa Elena. After 18 months, in the spring of 1568, natives killed all the soldiers and burned the six forts, including the one at Fort San Juan. The Spanish never returned to the interior to press their colonial claim, but this marked the first European attempt at colonization of the interior. Translation in the 1980s of a journal by Pardo's scribe Bandera have confirmed the expedition and settlement. Archaeological finds at Joara indicate that it was a
settlement and also indicate Spanish settlement at Fort San Juan in . Joara was the largest
settlement in the region. Records of Hernando de Soto's expedition attested to his meeting with them in 1540.
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, sponsor of the ill-fated
The earliest English attempt at colonization in North America was
of , the famed "Lost Colony" of . The colony was established at
on the leeward side of the . The first attempt at a settlement consisted of 100 or so men led by . They built a fort, and waited for supplies from a second voyage. While waiting for supplies to return, Lane and his men antagonized the local
peoples, killing several of them in armed skirmishes. The interactions were not all negative, as the local people did teach the colonists some survival skills, such as the construction of .
When the relief was long in coming, the colonists b after a chance encounter with , the colonists elected to accept transport back to England with him. When the supply ships did arrive, only a few days later, they found the colony abandoned. The ship's captain, , left a small force of 15 men to hold the fort and supplies and wait for a new stock of colonists.
In 1587 a third ship arrived carrying 110 men, 17 women, and 9 children, some of whom had been part of the first group of colonists that had earlier abandoned Roanoke. This group was led by . Among them
she gave birth to the first English subject born in North America, . The colonists found the remains of the garrison left behind, likely killed by the Croatan who had been so antagonized by Lane's aggressiveness. White had intended to pick up the remains of the garrison, abandon Roanoke Island, and settle in the . White's Portuguese pilot, Simon Fernandez, refused rather than risk , White agreed to resettle the former colony.
prevented any further contact between the colony and England until a 1590 expedition, which found no remains of any colonists, just an abandoned colony and the letters "CROATOAN" carved into a tree, and "CRO" carved into another. Despite many investigations, no one knows what happened to the colony. Historians widely believe that the colonists died of st they do not support the myth of their being taken in and assimilated by Native Americans.
developed differently from
almost from the beginning. The Spanish experienced trouble colonizing North Carolina because it had a dangerous coastline, a lack of ports, and few inland rivers by which to navigate. In the 1650s and 1660s, settlers (mostly English) moved south from , in addition to runaway servants and fur trappers. They settled chiefly in the .
In 1665, the Crown issued a second charter to resolve territorial questions. As early as 1689, the Carolina proprietors named a separate deputy-governor for the region of the colony that lay to the north and east of . The division of the colony into North and
was completed at a meeting of the Lords Proprietors held at Craven House in London on December 7, 1710, although the same proprietors continued to control both colonies. The first colonial Governor of North Carolina was
who served from 1711 until 1712. North Carolina became a crown colony in 1729.
took a heavy toll in the region among Native Americans, who had no
to the disease, which had become
in Asia and Europe. The 1738 epidemic was said to have killed one-half of the Cherokee, with other tribes of the area suffering equally. Historians estimate there were about 5,000 settlers in 1700 and 11,000 in 1715.
While the voluntary settlers were mostly British, some had
most were . In the ensuing years, the settlers imported and purchased more slaves to develop plantations in the lowland areas, and the African proportion of the population rose rapidly. A colony at
was composed of
and German settlers. In the late eighteenth century, more German immigrants migrated south after entry into Pennsylvania.
By 1712, the term "North Carolina" was in common use. In 1728, the dividing line between North Carolina and Virginia was surveyed. In 1730, the population in North Carolina was 30,000. By 1729, the Crown bought out seven of the eight original proprietors and made the region a royal colony. in 1744 he received rights to the vast , constituting the northern half of North Carolina.
the oldest town in North Carolina was the first nominal capital from 1705 until 1722, when
took over the role, but the colony had no permanent institutions of government until their establishment at the new capital
became capital of North Carolina in 1792.
The colony grew rapidly from a population of 100,000 in 1752 to 200,000 in 1765. By 1760, enslaved Africans constituted one-quarter of the population and were concentrated along the coast.
In the late eighteenth century, the tide of immigration to North Carolina from Virginia and Pennsylvania began to swell. The Scots-Irish (Ulster Protestants) from what is today Northern Ireland were the largest immigrant group from the British Isles to the colonies before the Revolution. In total, English indentured servants, who arrived mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, comprised the majority of English settlers prior to the Revolution. On the eve of the American Revolution, North Carolina was the fastest-growing British colony in North America. The small family farms of the Piedmont contrasted sharply with the
economy of the coastal region, where wealthy planters had established a slave society, growing
with slave labor.
Differences in the settlement patterns of eastern and western North Carolina, or the low country and uplands, affected the political, economic, and social life of the state from the eighteenth until the twentieth century. The Tidewater in eastern North Carolina was settled chiefly by immigrants from rural
and the . The upcountry of western North Carolina was settled chiefly by ,
, the so-called "". During the , the English and Highland Scots of eastern North Carolina tended to remain loyal to the British Crown, because of longstanding business and personal connections with Great Britain. The English, Welsh, Scots-Irish and German settlers of western North Carolina tended to favor American independence from Britain.
With no cities and very few towns or villages, the colony was rural and thinly populated. Local
provided multiple services ranging from strong drink, beds for travelers, and meeting rooms for politicians and businessmen. In a world sharply divided along lines of ethnicity, gender, race, and class, the tavern keepers' rum proved a solvent that mixed together all sorts of locals, as well as travelers. The increasing variety of drinks on offer, and the emergence of private clubs meeting in the taverns, showed that genteel culture was spreading from London to the periphery of the English world.
The courthouse was usually the most imposing building in a county. Jails were often an important part of the courthouse but were sometimes built separately. Some county governments built tobacco warehouses to provide a common service for their most important export crop.
In the early years the line between white indentured servants and African laborers was vague, as some Africans also arrived under indenture, before more were transported as slaves. Some Africans were allowed to earn their freedom before slavery became a lifelong racial caste. Most of the
families found in North Carolina in the censuses of
were descended from unions or marriages between free white women and enslaved or free African or African-American men in colonial Virginia. Because the mothers were free, their children were born free. Such mixed-race families migrated along with their European-American neighbors into the frontier of North Carolina. As the flow of indentured laborers slackened because of improving economic conditions in Britain, the colony was short on labor and imported more slaves. It followed Virginia in increasing its controls on slavery, which became a racial caste of the foreign Africans.
The economy's growth and prosperity was based on slave labor, devoted first to the production of . The oppressive and brutal experiences of slaves and poor whites led to their using escape, violent resistance, and theft of food and other goods in order to survive.
In the late 1760s, tensions between Piedmont farmers and coastal planters developed into the . With specie scarce, many inland farmers found themselves unable to pay their
and resented the consequent seizure of their property. Local sheriffs sometimes kept taxes for their own gain and sometimes charged twice for the same tax. Governor 's conspicuous consumption in the construction of
at New Bern fueled the resentment of yeoman farmers. As the western districts were under-represented in the colonial legislature, the farmers could not obtain redress by
means. The frustrated farmers took to arms and closed the court in . Tryon sent troops to the region and defeated the Regulators at the
in May 1771.
Signers Monument, ,
The demand for independence came from local grassroots organizations called "". The First
had urged their creation in 1774. By 1775 they had become counter-governments that gradually replaced royal authority and took control of local governments. They regulated the economy, politics, morality, and militia of their individual communities, but many local feuds were played out under ostensibly political affiliations. After December 1776 they came under the control of a more powerful central authority, the Council of Safety.
In the spring of 1776, North Carolinians, meeting in the fourth of their , drafted the , a set of resolutions that empowered the state's delegates to the
to concur in a declaration of independence from Great Britain. In July 1776, the new state became part of the new nation, the United States of America.
In 1775 the Patriots easily expelled the Royal governor and suppressed the . In November 1776, elected representatives gathered in Halifax to write a new , which remained in effect until 1835. One of the most prominent Loyalists was John Legett, a rich planter in . He organized and led one of the few loyalist brigades in the South (the North Carolina Volunteers, later known as the Royal North Carolina Regiment). After the war, Colonel Legett and some of his men moved to Nova S the British gave them free land grants in County Harbour as compensation for their losses in the colony. The great majority of Loyalists remained in North Carolina and became citizens of the new nation.
Local militia units proved important in the guerrilla war of 1780-81. Soldiers who enlisted in George Washington's
fought in numerous battles up and down the land.
Struggling with a weak tax base, state officials used impressment to seize food and supplies needed for the war effort, paying the farmers with promissory notes. To raise soldiers, state officials tried a draft law. Both policies created significant discontent that undermined support for the new nation. The state's large German population, concentrated in the central counties, tri the Moravians were pacifist because of strong religious beliefs, while Lutheran and Reformed Germans were passively neutral. All peace groups paid triple taxes in lieu of military service.
The British were punctual in paying their regulars and their Loyalist forces, American soldiers went month after month in threadbare uniforms with no pay and scanty supplies. Belatedly, the state tried to make amends. After 1780 soldiers received cash bounties, a slave "or the value thereof," clothing, food, and land (after 1782 they received from 640 to 1,200 acres depending on rank). Since the money supply, based on the Continental currency was subject to high inflation and loss of value, state officials valued compensation in relation to gold and silver.
After 1780 the British tried to rouse and arm the Loyalists, believing they were numerous enough to make a difference. The result was fierce
between units of Patriots and Loyalists. Often the opportunity was seized to settle private grudges and feuds. A major American victory took place at
along the North Carolina–South Carolina border. On October 7, 1780 a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina (including what is today part of ) overwhelmed a force of some 1000 Loyalist and British troops led by Major . The victory essentially ended British efforts to recruit more Loyalists.
1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the .
The road to American victory at
led through North Carolina. As the British army moved north toward Virginia, the Southern Division of the
and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General 's victory over the British under
on January 17, 1781, the southern commander
led British Lord
across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from Cornwallis's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."
Generals Greene and Cornwallis finally met at the
in present-day
on March 15, 1781. Although the
troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior Continental Army were crippling. Cornwallis has a poor strategic plan which had failed in holding his heavily garrisoned positions in South Carolina and Georgia, and had failed to subdue North Carolina. By contrast, Greene used a more flexible adaptive approach that negated the British advantages and built an adequate logistical foundation for the American campaigns. Greene's defensive operations provided his forces the opportunity to later seize the strategic offensive from Comwallis and eventually reclaim the Carolinas. The weakened Cornwallis headed to the Virginia coastline to be rescued by the . Continental forces repulsed the Navy and Cornwallis, surrounded by American and French units, surrendered to , effectively ending the fighting.
By 1786, the population of North Carolina had increased to 350,000.
drafted in 1787 was controversial in North Carolina. Delegate meetings at Hillsboro in July 1788 initially voted to reject it for
reasons. They were persuaded to change their minds partly by the strenuous efforts of
and [] and partly by the prospect of a . Meanwhile, residents in the wealthy northeastern part of the state, who generally supported the proposed Constitution, threatened to secede if the rest of the state did not fall into line. A second ratifying convention was held in Fayetteville in November 1789, and on November 21, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
North Carolina adopted a new state constitution in 1835. One of the major changes was the introduction of direct election of the governor, for prior to 1835, the legislature elected the governor for a term of one year. North Carolina's
was completed in 1840.
In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129–mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer's railroad", from
in the east to
(northwest of ).
of North Carolina, 1854
On October 25, 1836 construction began on the
to connect the port city of
with the state capital of . In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to , , and . During the Civil War the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Co supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of .
During the antebellum period, North Carolina was an overwhelmingly
state, even by Southern standards. In 1860 only one North Carolina town, the port city of , had a population of more than 10,000. , the state capital, had barely more than 5,000 residents.
The majority of white families comprised the , or "yeoman farmers." They owned their own small farms, and occasionally had a slave or two. Most of their efforts were to build up the farm, and feed their families, with a little surplus sold on the market in order to pay taxes and buy necessities.
After the ,
worked to persuade slaveholders to free their slaves. Some were inspired by their efforts and the revolutionary ideals to arrange for
of their slaves. The number of free people of color in the state rose markedly in the first couple of decades after the Revolution. Most of the free people of color in the censuses of
were descended from African Americans who became free in colonial Virginia, the children of unions and marriages between white women and African men. These descendants migrated to the frontier during the late eighteenth century along with white neighbors. Free people of color also became concentrated in the eastern coastal plain, especially at port cities such as Wilmington and , where they could get a variety of jobs and had more freedom in the cities. Restrictions increased beginning in the 1820s; movement by free people of color between counties was prohibited. Additional restrictions against their movements in 1830 under a quarantine act. Free mariners of color on visiting ships were prohibited from having contact with any blacks in the state, in violation of United States treaties. In 1835 free people of color lost the right to vote, following white fears aroused after
in 1831. By 1860, there were 30,463
who lived in the state but could not vote.
Most of North Carolina's slave owners and large plantations were located in the eastern portion of the state. Although its plantation system was smaller and less cohesive than those of Virginia, Georgia or South Carolina, significant numbers of planters were concentrated in the counties around the port cities of Wilmington and Edenton, as well as in the piedmont around the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte and Durham. Planters owning large estates wielded significant political and socio-economic power in antebellum North Carolina, placing their interests above those of the generally non-slave holding "yeoman" farmers of the western part of the state.
While slaveholding was less concentrated in North Carolina than in some Southern states, according to the 1860 census, more than 330,000 people, or 33% of the population of 992,622, were enslaved African Americans. They lived and worked chiefly on plantations in the eastern
and the upland areas of the Piedmont.
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In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state, in which about one-third of the population of 992,622 were enslaved African Americans. This was a smaller proportion than many Southern states. In addition, the state had just over 30,000 . there were relatively few large plantations or old aristocratic families. North Carolina was reluctant to secede from the Union when it became clear that
had won . With the attack on
in April 1861, in Lincoln's call for troops to march to South Carolina, the unionist element virtually collapsed in both of the state, and North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
North Carolina was the site of few battles, but it provided at least 125,000 troops to the Confederacy— far more than any other state. Approximately 40,000 of those troops never returned home, dying of disease, battlefield wounds, and starvation. North Carolina also supplied about 15,000 Union troops. Confederate troops from all parts of North Carolina served in virtually all the major battles of the , the Confederacy's most famous army. The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at , which was a futile attempt by Confederate General
to slow Union General 's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. In April 1865 after losing the , Johnston surrendered to Sherman at , in what is today . This was the next to last major Confederate Army to surrender. North Carolina's port city of
was the last major Confederate port
it fell in the spring of 1865 after the nearby .
Elected in 1862, Governor
tried to maintain state autonomy against Confederate President .
The Union's naval blockade of Southern ports and the breakdown of the Confederate transportation system took a heavy toll on North Carolina residents, as did the runaway inflation of the war years. In the spring of 1863, there were food riots in North Carolina as town dwellers found it hard to buy food. On the other hand, blockade runners brought prosperity several port cities, until they were shut down by the Union Navy in 1864-65.
Union captures , 1865.
Even after secession, some North Carolinians refused to support the Confederacy. This was particularly true of non-slave-owning farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region. Some of these farmers remained neutral during the war, while some covertly supported the
cause during the conflict. Approximately 2,000 white North Carolinians from western North Carolina enlisted in the
and fought for the North in the war. In addition, black men rapidly volunteered to fill two Union
raised in the coastal areas of the state that were occupied by Union forces in 1862 and 1863.
, historic site of major Confederate surrender in .
During , many African-American leaders arose from people free before the war, men who had escaped to the North and decided to return, and educated migrants from the North who wanted to help in the postwar years. Many who had been in the North had gained some education before their return. In general, however, illiteracy was a problem shared in the early postwar years by most African Americans and about one-third of the whites in the state.
A number of white northerners migrated to North Carolina to work and invest. While feelings in the state were high against , of the 133 persons at the constitutional convention, only 18 were Northern carpetbaggers and 15 were African American. North Carolina was readmitted to the Union in 1868, after ratifying a new state constitution. It included provisions to establish public education for the first time, prohibit slavery, and adopt universal suffrage. It also provided for public welfare institutions for the first time: orphanages, public charities and a penitentiary. The legislature ratified the .
In 1870 the Democratic Party regained power in the state. Governor
had used civil powers and spoken out to try to combat the 's increasing violence, which was used to suppress black and Republican voting. Conservatives accused him of being head of the , believing in social equality between the races, and practicing political corruption. But, when the legislature voted to impeach him, it charged him only with using and paying troops to put down insurrection (Ku Klux Klan activity) in the state. Holden was impeached and turned over his duties to Lieutenant Governor
on December 20, 1870. The trial began on January 30, 1871, and lasted nearly three months. On March 22, the North Carolina Senate found Holden guilty and ordered him removed from office.
After the national
of 1871 went into effect in an effort to reduce violence in the South, the U.S. Attorney General, , vigorously prosecuted Klan members in North Carolina. During the late 1870s, there was renewed violence in the
area, where whites tried to suppress minority black voting in elections. Beginning in 1875, the , a
group, openly worked for the Democrats to suppress black voting.
As in other Southern states, after white Democrats regained power, they worked to re-establish
politically and socially.
groups such as the
beginning in 1875 worked openly to disrupt black political meetings, intimidate leaders and directly challenge voters in campaigns and elections, especially in the Piedmont area. They sometimes physically attacked black voters and community leaders.
Despite this, in the 1880s, black officeholders were at a peak in local offices, where much business was done, as they were elected from black-majority districts. White Democrats regained power on the state level.
Post-Civil War racial politics encouraged efforts to divide and co-opt groups. In the drive to regain power, Democrats supported an effort by state representative Harold McMillan to create separate school districts in 1885 for "Croatan Indians" to gain their support. Of mixed race and claiming Native American heritage, the families had been classified as
years and did not want to send their children to public school classes with former slaves. After having voted with the Republicans, they switched to the Democrats. (In 1913 the group changed their name to "Cherokee Indians of Robeson County", "Siouan Indians of Lumber River" in , and were given limited recognition as Indians by the U.S. Congress as
in 1956. The Lumbee are one of several Native American tribes that have been officially recognized by the state in the 21st century.)
In 1894 after years of agricultural problems in the state, an interracial coalition of Republicans and
won a majority of seats in the state legislature and elected as governor, Republican , the Fusionist candidate. That year
elected , an educated African-American attorney, as its third black representative to Congress since the Civil War.
White Democrats worked to break up the biracial coalition, and reduce voting by blacks and poor whites. In 1896 North Carolina passed a statute that made voter registration more complicated and reduced the number of blacks on voter registration rolls.
In 1898, in an election characterized by violence, fraud and intimidation of black voters by Red Shirts, white Democrats regained control of the state legislature.
Two days after the election, a small group of whites in
implemented their plan to take over the city government if the Democrats were not elected, although the mayor and a majority of city council were white. The cadre led 1500 whites against the black newspaper and neighborhood in w the mob and other whites killed up to 90 blacks. The cadre forced the resignation of Republican officeholders, including the white mayor, and mostly white aldermen, and ran them out of town. They replaced them with their own slate and that day elected
as mayor. This was the most notorious
in United States history.
Country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939
In 1899 the Democrat-dominated state legislature ratified a new constitution with a suffrage amendment, whose requirements for , , lengthier residency, and similar mechanisms
most blacks and many poor whites. Illiterate whites were protected by a , so that if a father or grandfather had voted in 1860 (when all voters were white), his sons or grandsons did not have to pass the literacy test of 1899. This grandfather clause excluded all blacks, as free people of color had lost the franchise in 1835. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1915 that such grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. Every voter had to pay the poll tax until it was abolished by the state in 1920.
Congressman White, an African-American Republican, said after passage of this constitution, "I cannot live in North Carolina and be a man and be treated as a man." He had been re-elected in 1898, but the next year announced his decision not to seek a third term, saying he would leave the state instead. He moved his law practice to Washington, DC and later to Philadelphia in the free state of Pennsylvania, where he founded a commercial bank.
By 1904, black voter turnout had been utterly reduced in North Carolina. Contemporary accounts estimated that 75,000 black male citizens lost the vote. In 1900 blacks numbered 630,207 citizens, about 33% of the state's total population and were unable to elect representatives.
With control of the legislature, white Democrats passed
laws establishing racial
in public facilities and transportation. African Americans worked for more than 60 years to regain full power to exercise the suffrage and other constitutional rights of citizens. Without the ability to vote, they were excluded from juries and lost all chance at local offices: sheriffs, justices of the peace, jurors, county commissioners and school board members, which were the active site of government around the start of the 20th century. Suppression of the black vote and re-establishment of white supremacy suppressed knowledge of what had been a thriving black middle class in the state. The Republicans were no longer competitive in state politics, although they had strength in the mountain districts.
Reacting to segregation, disfranchisement in 1899, and difficulties in agriculture in the early twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans left the state (and hundreds of thousands began to leave the rest of the South) for the North and Midwest - for better o in its first wave, from , one and a half million African Americans left the South. They went to Washington, Baltimore, and P and sometimes further north, to industrial cities where there was work, usually taking the trains to connecting cities.
On December 17, 1903, the
made the first successful airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In the early 20th century, North Carolina launched both a major education initiative and a major road-building initiative to enhance the state's economy. The educational initiative was launched by Governor
in 1901. Supposedly, North Carolina built one school per day while Aycock was in office. In addition, North Carolina was helped in the 1920s and 1930s by the , which contributed matching funds to local communities for the construction of thousands of schools for African Americans in rural areas throughout the South. Black parents organized to raise the money, and donated land and labor to build improved schools for their children.
because of disfranchisement of African Americans and establishment of a one-party state, North Carolina Democrats held powerful, senior positions in Congress, holding two of 23 major committee chairmanships in the Senate and four of 18 in the House, as well as the post of House majority leader. White Southerners controlled a block of votes and important chairmanships in Congress because, although they had disfranchised the entire black population of the South, they had not lost any congressional apportionment. With the delegation under control of the Democrats, they exercised party discipline. Their members gained seniority by being re-elected for many years. During the early decades of the 20th century, the Congressional delegation gained the construction of several major U.S. military installations, notably , in North Carolina. President , a fellow Democrat from the South who was elected due to the suppression of the Republican Party in the South, remained highly popular during World War I and was generally supported by the North Carolina delegation.
During the war, the decrepit ship building industry was revived by large-scale federal contracts landed with Congressional help. Nine new shipyards opened in North Carolina to build ships under contracts from the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Four
were made of concrete, but most were made of wood or steel. Thousands of workers rushed to high-paying jobs, as the managers found a shortage of highly skilled mechanics, as well as a housing shortage. Although unions were weak, labor unrest and managerial inexperience caused the delays. The shipyards closed at the end of the war.
The North Carolina Woman's Committee was established as a state agency during the war, headed by Laura Holmes Reilly of Charlotte. Inspired by ideals of the , it registered women for many volunteer services, promoted increased food production and the elimination of wasteful cooking practices, helped maintain social services, worked to bolster morale of white and black soldiers, improved public health and public schools, and encouraged black participation in its programs. Members helped cope with the devastating
that struck worldwide in late 1918, with very high fatalities. The committee was generally successful in reaching middle-class white and black women. It was handicapped by the condescension of male lawmakers, limited funding, and tepid responses from women on the farms and working-class districts.
The state's road-building initiative began in the 1920s, after the automobile became a popular mode of transportation.
The state's farmers were badly hurt in the early years of the , but benefited greatly by the New Deal programs, especially the tobacco program which guaranteed a steady flow of relatively high income to farmers, and the cotton program, which raised the prices farmers received for their crops (The cotton program caused a rise in prices of cotton goods for consumers during the Depression). The textile industry in the Piedmont region continued to attract cotton mills relocating from the North, where unions had been effective in gaining better wages and conditions.
Prosperity largely returned during World War II. This state supplied the armed forces with more textiles than any other state in the nation. Remote mountain places joined the national economy and had their first taste of prosperity. Hundreds of thousands of young men and a few hundred young women entered the military from this state.
Political scientist
analyzed the state political culture in depth in the late 1940s, and concluded it was exceptional in the South for its "progressive outlook and action in many phases of life", especially in the realm of industrial development, commitment to public education, and a moderate-pattern segregation that was relatively free of the rigid racism found in the Deep South.
North Carolina invested heavily in its system of higher education, and also became known for its excellent universities. Three major institutions compose the state's : the
(chartered in 1789 and greatly expanded from the 1930s on), , and
(rechartered in 1924).
Conditions of the public elementary and high schools were not as noteworthy. In the 1960s Governor , a racial moderate, called for more spending on the schools, but Sanford's program featured regressive taxation that fell disproportionately on the workers. In the 1970s Governor , another racial moderate, championed educational reform.
Reformers have stressed the central role of education in the modernization of the state and economic growth. They have also aggressively pursued economic development, attracting out-of-state, and international corporations with special tax deals and infrastructure development. In the late 20th century,
became the nation's number two banking center, after New York.
In 1931, the Negro Voters League was formed in
to press for voter registration. The city had an educated and politically sophisticate by 1946 the League had succeeded in registering 7,000 black voters, an achievement in the segregated South, since North Carolina had essentially
with provisions of a new constitution in 1899, excluding them from the political system and strengthening its system of
The work of racial
and enforcement of constitutional civil rights for African Americans continued throughout the state. In the first half of the 20th century, other African Americans voted with their feet, moving in the
from rural areas to northern and midwestern cities where there were industrial jobs.
During World War II, Durham's Black newspaper, Carolina Times, edited by Louis Austin, took the lead in promoting the "Double V" strategy among civil rights activists. The strategy was to energize blacks to fight victory abroad against the Germans and Japanese, while fighting for victory at home against white supremacy and racial oppression. Activists demanded an end to racial inequality in education, politics, economics, and the armed forces.
In 1960 nearly 25% of the state residents were African American: 1,114,907 citizens who had been living without their constitutional rights. African-American college students began the
lunch counter in
on February 1, 1960, sparking a wave of copycat sit-ins across the American South. They continued the Greensboro sit-in sporadically for several months until, on July 25, African Americans were at last allowed to eat at Woolworth's. Integration of public facilities followed.
Together with continued activism in states throughout the South and raising awareness throughout the country, African Americans' moral leadership gained the passage of the federal
under President . Throughout the state, African Americans began to participate fully in political life. In October 1973,
was elected mayor of , making history as the first popularly elected mayor of the city, the first African American to be elected mayor, and the first African American to be elected mayor in a white-majority city of the South. In 1992 the state elected its first African-American congressman since
In 1979 North Carolina ended the state
program. Since 1929, the state Eugenics Board had deemed thousands of individuals "feeble minded" and had them . In 2011 the state legislature debated whether the estimated 2,900 living victims of North Carolina's sterilization regime would be compensated for the harm inflicted upon them by the state. The victims of the program were disproportionately minorities and the poor.
In 1971, North Carolina ratified its third . A 1997 amendment to this constitution granted the governor
power over most legislation. The majority of state residents began to support Republican national candidates in elections starting in 1968 with .
During the last 25 years, North Carolina's population has increased as its economy has grown, especially in finance and knowledge-based industries, attracting people from the North and Midwest. The number of workers in agriculture has declined sharply because of mechanization, and the textile industry has steadily declined because of globalization and movement of jobs in this industry out of the country. Most of the growth in jobs and residents has taken place in metropolitan areas of the Piedmont, in Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro.
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