NC IN COLONIAL TIMES CH 12

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT  1689: GOVERNOR APPOINTED BY KING: ROYAL COLONY  GOVNOR APPOINTED MANY KEY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS  GENERAL ASSEMBLY WAS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NC  THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT EXISTED IN COLONIAL TIMES  GOVERNOR:  GENERAL ASSEMBLY:  COURTS:  BY 1776 NC HAD 35 COUNTIES UNDER ENGLISH LAW

TOWARD INDEPENDENCE:  NOV : GOVENOR DISMISSED ASSEMBLY: ABOUT TO VOTE TO BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS  ASSEMBLY MET WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF GOVERNOR: “FIRST IN FREEDOM”  AUG 25, 1774: 71 DELEGATES CREATED FIRST WILMINGTON PROVINCIAL CONGRESS PLEDGE SUPPORT TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS-POLITICAL BODY REPRESENTED THE COLONIES  MAY 1775: “MECHLENBERG DECLARATION” GOVERNORS APPOINTED POSITION IN BRITHISH GOVERNMEMT VACANT & VOTE TO REPLACE, BUT DID NOT CALL FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND  APRIL 1776: 4 TH PROVINICIAL CONGRESS: “HALIFAX RESOLVES” NC BECAME THE FIRST COLONY TO CALL FOR TOTAL INDEPENDENCE  JULY 4, 1776, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS SIGNED

CONSTITUTION AND DELCARATION OF RIGHTS  DEC 18 TH 1776: VOTERS OF NC APPROVED THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF NC THE DOCUMENT EMPHASIS WAS ON:  FREEDOM  SEPARATION OF POWERS  SAFETY OF THE CITIZENS  ACHIEVEMENT: PUBLIC SCHOOLS  EQUALITY  RIGHT TO RULE THROUGH VOTING: POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

CHANGES TO CONSTITUTION OF NC  1 ST : 1835:  VOTERS GAIN POWER TO ELECT GOVERNOR  LIMITED VOTING RIGHTS OF FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS  2 ND : 1868:  CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS NEEDED TO CHANGE NC’S CONSTITUTION TO PROVIDE FOR 14 TH AMENDMENT’S EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW- 21 OR OLDER VOTE REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR,  3 RD : 1970:  APPROVED RATIFIED BY VOTERS  MADE DOCUMENT EASIER TO READ  CHANGED SCHOOL YEARS

NC DECLARATION OF RIGHTS TODAY  YOU HAVE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN NC AS WELL AS FEDERAL  NC’S DECLARATIONS OF RIGHTS EXTENDS THE UNITED STATE’S BILL OF RIGHTS  EDUCATION:  NC CONTITUTION ARTICLE 1 SECT 15: RIGHT TO EDUCATION  LEANDRO V STATE OF NC: LOW WEALTH SCHOOLS NEED MORE MONEY FROM STATE THEN HIGH WEALTH TO BE EQUAL (Hoke, Halifax, Robeson, Vance and Cumberland)

RIGHTS TO CITIZENS  14 TH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW, STATE REQUIRED TO UPHOLD EQUAP TREATMENT TO ALL CITIZENS  EXTENDING RIGHT TO VOTE  1868 & 1870 US AMENDMENTS OPEN WAY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN, BUT WHEN RECONTRUCTION ENDED SO DID THEIR RIGHTS “JIM CROW” LAWS- RACIAL SEGREGATION PUBLIC AREAS AND SCHOOLS  1920: WOMEN GAINED RIGHT TO VOTE  WHO CAN VOTE  18YRS OLD, CITIZEN OF US, LIVED IN PRECINCT FOR 30 DAYS PRIOR TO ELECTION, NO CONVICTION OF FELONY, BE REGISTERED TO VOTE

CIVIL RIGHTS IN NC  MOVEMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY AND EQUALLY  LEGALIZATION OF SEGREGATION: ADOPTION OF JIM CROW LAWS AND SEGREGATION WAS UPHELD BY PLESSY V FERGUSON RULING-PG 365  STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS  NC AND THE BROWN RULING: AVOIDED UNTIL MADE TO COMPLY IN 1971 WHEN SUPREME COURT UPHELD SWANN RULING  SIT INS: GREENSBORO FOUR AT WOOLWORTH’S STORE COUNTER TO EAT WITH WHITE PEOPLE BEGAN PUSH FOR EQUALITY AND FIGHT FOR EQUALITY HERE IN 1960