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