North%20Carolina%20Ways%20of%20Life

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North Carolina Ways of Life

• By Mr. Hunter

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Why did people immigrate to North Carolina?

• People in the north viewed NC as an open frontier
• Land companies advertised mild climates, fertile
  soil, and inexpensive land
• Highland Scots viewed it as a place to escape
  religious persecution and political turmoil

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How did Gabriel Johnson encourage growth of the
colony?

• He convinced the assembly to pass a law that
  excused Protestants from other countries from
  paying taxes for 10 years.
• He made large land grants possible.

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Highland Scots

• Cumberland county was formed for them since they
  rebelled and their farmland was taken away.
• Highlanders were traitors they refused to turn
  against England during the revolution.

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Great Wagon Road

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• What were the results?

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Great Wagon Road

• Who Pennsylvania settlers
• What a 700-mile wilderness trail for people
  traveling south
• When 1700s
• Where along the foot of the Appalachian
  Mountains
• Why scarcity of land in Pennsylvania

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Great Wagon Road

• What were the results?
• The Scots-Irish and German-speaking Protestants
  claimed the backcountry as home.
• They moved into the Piedmont where they farmed,
  raised livestock, and operated gristmills,
  tanneries, and forges.

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Great Wagon Road
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Scots-Irish

• Sent to Northern Ireland to Industrialize the
  country and make it Protestant
• Developed a thriving linen and woolen industry
• Scots-Irish supported the revolution.

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Pennsylvania Dutch

• German-speaking people
• Members of several Protestant churches
• Fled religious persecution
• Moravians largest body of Germans in NC

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Enslaved Africans

• NC had the smallest population of enslaved
  Africans and failed to develop and active slave
  trade (because of good ports and lack of
  necessity).
• Quakers stood against slavery.

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Social Class SystemArrange these in order from
lower class to higher.Describe each.

• Planters
• Farmers
• Laborers, artisans, apprentices
• Indentured servants
• Gentry
• Enslaved/Free Africans

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Social Class System

• Gentry upper class- clergy, lawyers, doctors
• Planters landowners with many enslaved people
• Farmers backbone of society, militia

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Social Class System

• Indentured Servants contractual labor
• Laborers, etc. apprentices, blacksmiths,
  weavers, merchants, woodcarvers, etc.
• Enslaved/Free Africans experienced racism,
  free Africans were able to purchase family
  members, viewed as property

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Economy/Industry

• 95 of people in NC made their living through
  agriculture.
• The industry boomed after settlers learned to
  farm like Native Americans (planting seeds in
  rows and hills, hoeing weeds, usnig scarecrows)

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Major Cash Crops

• Corn (roasted, fermented it, milled the dried
  kernels- grits, mill, hominy)
• Wheat (sold well in England)
• Tobacco

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Tobacco