HIS 3728 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Great Wagon Road, William Byrd Ii, Yadkin River
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Rapid increase in white population, expanded slave system. Most of the immigrants settled in nc"s interior, the backcountry where a land rush was underway by the 1740s". Still the land boom didn"t benefit everyone equally with the rise of the. Regulators, the backcountry became a hotbed of political crisis. 1728-1729: virginian william byrd ii drew the boundary line between nc and virginia, provided a half-satirical and half true depiction of nc life. Nc people ate a lot of pork (essential part of nc diet) bbq. Member of nc assembly stated that anyone with a nose should be incapable of holding any place of profit in the province; which extraordinary motion could never have been intended without hopes of a majority . By the time byrd visited nc in late 1720"s, a new white society was emerging. By the 18th century, hogs had become most common livestock in nc (virginia and west indies)
