Preface and Acknowledgments ix Part 1 Colonial North Carolina 1 1 European Invasion 3 2 Origins of North Carolina 24 3 A Slave Society 44 Suggested Readings, Part 1 61 Document Section, Part 1 64 Part 2 The Revolutionary Republic 79 Immigrants and the Backcountry World 81 4 The Age of Revolution 101 5 The New Republic 124 6 Suggested Readings, Part 2 146 Document Section, Part 2 149 Part 3 The Civil War Crisis 161 7 Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina 163 8 Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War 184 9 The Civil War 201 Suggested Readings, Part 3 222 Document Section, Part 3 227 Part 4 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 237 10 Reconstruction 239 11 Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era 260 12 Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s 279 Suggested Readings, Part 4 300 Document Section, Part 4 303 Part 5 Modernizing North Carolina 315 13 Progressive North Carolina 317 14 World War I and the 1920s 343 15 Depression, New Deal, and World War II 367 Suggested Readings, Part 5 392 Document Section, Part 5 395 Part 6 Toward the Twenty-First Century 409 16 Postwar North Carolina 411 17 The Civil Rights Revolution 435 18 Modernizers and Traditionalists 458 Suggested Readings, Part 6 481 Document Section, Part 6 484 Appendix 495 State Symbols 495 Governors 495 United States Senators 498 North Carolina Population, 1790-2010 500 Index 501.