North Carolina

William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of seven books on the history of the South, including Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2003), Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008), North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (2009), and Links: My Family in American History (2012). His most recent book is Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War s Aftermath (2013).

• 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