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Preface and Acknowledgments ixPart 1 Colonial North Carolina 11 European Invasion 32 Origins of North Carolina 243 A Slave Society 44Suggested Readings, Part 1 61Document Section, Part 1 64Part 2 The Revolutionary Republic 79Immigrants and the Backcountry World 814 The Age of Revolution 1015 The New Republic 1246 Suggested Readings, Part 2 146Document Section, Part 2 149Part 3 The Civil War Crisis 1617 Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina 1638 Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War 1849 The Civil War 201Suggested Readings, Part 3 222Document Section, Part 3 227Part 4 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 23710 Reconstruction 23911 Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era 26012 Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s 279Suggested Readings, Part 4 300Document Section, Part 4 303Part 5 Modernizing North Carolina 31513 Progressive North Carolina 31714 World War I and the 1920s 34315 Depression, New Deal, and World War II 367Suggested Readings, Part 5 392Document Section, Part 5 395Part 6 Toward the Twenty-First Century 40916 Postwar North Carolina 41117 The Civil Rights Revolution 43518 Modernizers and Traditionalists 458Suggested Readings, Part 6 481Document Section, Part 6 484Appendix 495State Symbols 495Governors 495United States Senators 498North Carolina Population, 1790-2010 500Index 501