North Carolina Geography

Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002.

People were not very united in their communities and yet most of the colonists were righteous and pious people. The communities were lead by a good strong leader, like their ships commander. The government had to report all to their king (Document G) and also had very little real power of the people it ruled (Document H). This lead to many revolts such as Bacon’s rebellion in 1676. The colonists were also not on good terms with the Native Americans. Not like in the New England area, where they relied on the Native Americans. The settlers were pushing the limits of the treaty boarders. When the government tried to settle the quarrel, a rebellion was created and forever driving a knife between the hopes of a united community. The Chesapeake Bay was big in trading. This kept the colony thriving. They traded things like tobacco to Europe for supplies. They were semi sufficient but partially relied on the trade for money and necessities. New Englanders migrated as families, and family was the source of New England life. This contributed to the difference between the Chesapeake region and the New England region.

Although both the New England Colonies (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake Colonies (Virginia and Maryland) were both settled by people of English origin, by 1700 they were both very distinct for a multitude of reasons; Three of which being, their economics, African Slave population, and their life expectancies.

In 1607 a group of English settlers built village in Jamestown, Virginia. King Jaime I of England founded a colony in the first seven months after its arrival. Within these colonies we find the New England colonies and South Carolina colonies. We will analyze and compare the government systems, religious and economic development of both colonies and how they were related.

As a North Carolinian, I did not spend very much time dwelling on the state of West Virginia. To me, it was a state that not many people paid attention to. It kind of just did its own thing without anyone thinking twice about it. It wasn’t until when I was deciding where to go to school that West Virginia was formally introduced to me. Contacted by the Women’s Lacrosse coach, I visited and promptly fell in love with the University of Charleston but it was nothing I was expecting from West Virginia. When I began to tell people that I was going to school in WV, I was flooded with opinions. Every friend of mine I’ve told, gave me the same or similar response: “doesn’t everyone have sex with their cousins up there?” Now I would be lying if I hadn’t thought of that once or twice about it but that was only the tip of the iceberg when it came to my perceptions of the state.

There were many differences between the Northern and Southern part of Carolina. The Northern part had completely different geographic features then the southern part of Carolina. For instance the Northern part grew Tobacco, which was a cash crop for them, because the land and climate were just right for growing tobacco. In the southern part of the colony they grow rice, which they used as a staple crop which is a crop that many people can use to support themselves on they grew it. Rice also known as Carolina gold became a prosperous crop because of the African slaves. They knew how to flood fields to grow it and how to plant it. Also Northern part of Carolina was mainly made up of Virginian settlers. The settlers

Every state held a ratifying convention soon before ratifying the Constitution. North Carolina is different because the delegates refused to ratify it without making amendments.

Some states attempted to nullify unfavorable laws. This was viewed as open rebellion and ultimately lead to the secession of North Carolina. North Carolina seceded from the union on December 24, 1860, claiming that certain duties were imposed on states and many of their powers were restrained. They argued that this imperiled their continued existence as sovereign states and that they could secede because the right is implicit in the constitution. They provided legal documents provided in the law of compact stating that the federal government did not uphold its agreement to honor North Carolina's rights as a sovereign state ((Document A). This constitutional development helped contribute to a revolution because after these drastic actions taken by the Southern states, the questions of the states rights needed to be resolved. Since the North had won the Civil War provided them the opportunity for them to put down the idea of nullification and secession to rest permanently. These results of the war gave more power to the federal government and kept tension rising in between the

Every state in the U.S. is different, which is the beauty of the country. These differences are however, not at all recently carved. Nearly 100 years before its birth, parts of the nation had divided and set themselves apart from one another. The regions of New England and the Chesapeake area would make themselves vastly unlike each other through their people, communities, and governments.

The ratification of the Constitution was a crucial and momentous turning point in the history of American government. Although this renowned document created much more structure within the national government than it did under the Articles of Confederation, North Carolina was extremely against the ratification of the Constitution. With a strong majority of Anti-Federalist delegates during the debate throughout the ratification convention, North Carolina was called into session twice, in Hillsborough and Fayetteville, where the Anti-Federalists fought diligently for an explicit Bill of Rights to protect individual rights and maintain state economic stability, while the Federalists attempted to assuage the Anti-Federalists’ refusal to accept

The people of North Carolina before and after the Revolutionary War seem to have one opinion. The people thought since they were an independent state, that they should have their own government system. The people did not want a government after so many failures. The Article of Confederation had their delegates to draw up better ways for the Constitution to make the people happy. This only ended up with people taking sides with the government. The Federalist was supporters of the Constitution, while the Anti-federalist was against them.

Exploration was a huge part of the 1600’s. A ton of countries competed to try to claim land in the new world. Lots of countries tried to claim land but in South Carolina, but failed because of its geography, resources, and diseases. When South Carolina was finally claimed the settlers had to face the difficulties of settling there.

he four colonies: Chesapeake, New England, The Middle Colonies and The Carolinas all make up the mid- Atlantic states despite their differences on how they became a colony but can still have similar colonial governments.

With everything going the way it was going, North Carolina’s settlers had to deal with dishonest administrators during the first fifty years or so of the startup of the colony, as well as, wars against Natives, brutal mutiny, unknown diseases, confinement, hurricanes/ bad storms, slavery, and worst of all, piracy. Although slavery didn’t grow very rapidly in North Carolina, as it did in other states, slavery was still known to be one of the biggest controversies for North Carolina had been around for a pretty good while. While most slaves were brought in from Africa, some were also brought in from other colonies that surrounded North Carolina. Slavery did pose as a problem for North Carolina because the people couldn’t really make up their mind whether or not they wanted slaves, and on top of that, North Carolina being in its very location, also made it harder for slaves to be shipped to them due to the uncertainty of a safety

North Carolina has always been a much more complicated place than its publicists have claimed. If Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Charlotte