HIS 3728 Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina
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Chapter 7: social change in antebellum north carolina. The extension of political democracy and growth of educational facilities were significant. The antebellum period shaped the future; it was a time of origins which still control many ways of life in north carolina. Nc= rip van winkle state because it had fallen asleep for many years and now awakened to a new, changed world. Improved transportation brought increased contact with national and international markets, ushering in heightened commercialization of agriculture and the stirrings of industrialization; much of the state remained outside of the market economy. Nc was a state of distinct contrasts. The state"s corn crop fed of robert e lee"s army in northern virginia. Before 1829, nc produced all gold coined at philadelphia mint. 1799, gold first discovered in nc by john reed. Gold rush during 1820"s, created boom towns, mining camps. Bright leaf tobacco and cotton, cotton gin invented by eli whitney in 1793.
