Preface and Acknowledgments Part One: Colonial North Carolina Chapter One: European Invasion Chapter Two: Origins of North Carolina Chapter Three: A Slave Society Suggested Readings Selected Documents Part Two: The Revolutionary Republic Chapter Four: Immigrants and the Backcountry World Chapter Five: The Age of Revolution Chapter Six: The New Republic Suggested Readings Selected Documents Part Three: The Civil War Crisis Chapter Seven: Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina Chapter Eight: Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter Nine: The Civil War Suggested Readings Selected Documents Part Four: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath Chapter Ten: Reconstruction Chapter Eleven: Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era Chapter Twelve: Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s Suggested Readings Selected Documents Part Five: Modernizing North Carolina Chapter Thirteen: Progressive North Carolina Chapter Fourteen: World War I and the 1920s Chapter Fifteen: Depression, New Deal, and World War II Suggested Readings Selected Documents Part Six: Toward the Twenty-First Century Chapter Sixteen: Postwar North Carolina Chapter Seventeen: The Civil Rights Revolution Chapter Eighteen: Modernizers and Traditionalists Suggested Readings Selected Documents Appendix State Symbols Governors U.S. Senators North Carolina Population, 1790-2010 Index.