NC's Journey to Statehood

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FROM A COLONY TO A STATE
North Carolinas Journey to Statehood
Created By Nicole Bohlman
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Social Studies
Objectives
3.05 Describe the political and social history
of colonial North Carolina and analyze its
influence on the estate today.
1.03 Suggest some influences that location has
on life in North Carolina such as major cities,
recreation areas, industry, and farms.
6.03 Categorize the states resources as
natural, human, or capital.
1.04 Evaluate ways the people of North Carolina
used, modifies, and adapted to the physical
environment, past and present.
6.04 Assess how the states natural resources
are being used.
3.01 Assess changes in ways of living over time
and determine whether the changes are primarily
political, economic, or social.
7.01 Cite examples from North Carolinas history
of the impact of technology
3.02 Identify people, symbols, events, and
documents associated with North Carolinas
history.
7.02 Analyze the effect of technology on North
Carolinas citizens, past and present.
3.04 Compare and contrast ways in which people,
goods, and ideas moved in the past with their
movement today.
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Vocabulary
Capital Place of government. Manufacturing
The making of goods. Free Enterprise The
economic system in which people are free to start
and run their own businesses. Entrepreneur A
person who starts and runs a new business or
finds better ways of doing things. Profit The
money left over after all costs have been paid
for. Human Resources Workers, to make
products. Capital Resources The money,
buildings, machines, and tools needed to run a
business.
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The Revolution Battles in the Piedmont
One of the first important battles of the
American Revolution took place February 1776 at
Moores Creek Bridge near Wilmington, NC.
The Americans won the Moores Creek battle and
kept the British from capturing the southern
colonies.
At Ramsours Mill, near what is today Lincolnton,
Scotch-Irish patriots broke up a gathering of
loyalists planning to join the British in 1780.
In March 1781 British and American forces met at
Guilford Courthouse in what is now Greensboro.
British general Cornwallis won the battle.
Although the British won the battle the fight
weakened them greatly.
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The Battle Of Kings Mountain
British reinforcements were sent to Lincolnton to
help defeat the Americans at Ramsours Mill.
These British troops were met by a group of
Americans from the Piedmont and Mountain regions.
These American fighters were called the
Overmountain Men because they came from a region
west of the mountains.
On October 7, 1780, the Overmountain Men drove
British troops to the top of Kings Mountain, and
overcame the entire British force.
Monument at Kings Mountain
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Choosing A State Capital
Before America won its independence from the
British the capital of the North Carolina colony
had been New Bern, NC.
Many people wanted the location of the capital to
be closer to the center of the state.
In 1792 the state bought 1,000 acres of land.
State lawmakers named the new city Raleigh in
honor of Sir Walter Raleigh, the founder of the
first colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of
North Carolina.
Capital Building in Raleigh
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Growth and Industry
The first textile mill was established in
Lincolnton by Michael Schenck in 1816.
By the time of the Civil War, Gastonia, on the
Catawba River, had become a textile center.
By the early 1900s textile production had become
one of the states top industries.
By the early 1900s more than 200,000 North
Carolinians had left farms to find new ways to
earn a living. Many of these people found jobs
in the textile, tobacco, and furniture industries.
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Furniture in North Carolina
Before the Civil War one of the best known
furniture makers in North Carolina was Thomas
Day. He was a free African American. Thomas
Days creations were made by hand and took a long
time to manufacture.
Furnature making was not a major industry in
North Carolina until workers began using
machines. In 1881 two brothers, David and
William White, opened a factory in Mebane. Seven
years later the first large furnature factory was
built in High Point, NC.
High Point was a convenient place to build a
furniture factory because forests and sawmills
were nearby. Also, the states first east-west
railroad passed through high point.
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The Tobacco Industry
Before the Civil War many small factories in
North Carolina produced chewing and smoking
tobacco.
James Buchanan Duke
When the Civil War ended, a man named Washington
Duke began selling the tobacco grown on his farm
throughout eastern North Carolina.
In the 1880s one of Washington Dukes sons,
James Buchanan Duke, bought a machine that cut in
half the cost of making his product. His company
became very successful.
Washington Duke
A kind of Tobacco known as bright leaf sold so
well that in 1870 the Duke family built a tobacco
factory in Durham.
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Photograph Sources
Slide 5 Photograph of Kings Mountain
Monument. http//www.nps.gov/kimo/home.htm Slide
6 Photograph of State Building in Raleigh,
North Carolina. www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/nc_s
tate_capitol.html Slide 7 Photograph of
historic Charlotte Mills. www.cmhpf.org/essays/co
ttonmills.html Slide 9 Photographs of John
Buchanan and Washington Duke. www.wclynx.com/burn
tofferings/adswashduke.html