Since becoming a state in 1789, North Carolina has seen many changes in transportation, population, land use, and technology: (1) Advances in transportation like steamboats, railroads, automobiles, and airplanes transformed how people and goods moved around the state and connected NC to the rest of the country; (2) These transportation changes, along with improvements in health and sanitation, led to rapid population growth and the rise of cities and mill towns; (3) As more people moved to cities, farm land decreased and was replaced by urban and industrial development; (4) Revolutionary technologies like the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television revolutionized communication and increased global awareness, while

1. Changes in NC Since
Statehood
Nicole Davis

2. What is Statehood?
• Statehood is the status of becoming a state of
the U.S

3. Before Statehood
• People lived on farms and grew their own
food
• Capital was in New Bern
• Women cooked and sewed
• Children learned trades.

4. Becoming a State
• NC became a state on November 21, 1789
• It was the 12th of the original 13 colonies
• In 1794, Raleigh became the capital
• which was named after Sr. Walter Raleigh.

6. Transportation

7. Steamboats
• Steamboats are watercrafts
that use steam for power. A
turbine or a paddlewheel is
pushed by the steam to
make it go. A steamboat is
used in smaller bodies of
water such as, streams and
rivers and steamships are
used in the ocean.
• Steamboats first appeared
in NC waters in 1812.
• They played a significant
role in transporting goods
into the inland in the 1800s
• Transportation of goods was
mainly done by steamboats
on
waterways, rivers, streams,
and by sea before the
developing of
roads, railroads, and
airplanes.

8. Railroad
• Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad was the first
NC railroad in 1834.
• North Carolina was one of the first states to
have railroads.
• They were the most efficient way to travel.
• In 1840, the 161 mile railroad from
Wilmington to Weldon was the world’s longest
• Today, there is 3,360 miles of railroad in NC.

9. Wilmington to Weldon

10. Experimental Railroad
• Experimental railroads
were horse-drawn carts
on the rails.
• There were 2 in
NC, Raleigh and
Fayetteville.

11. Horse and Buggy
• Primary mode of
transportation, especially
between 1815 & 1915
• The upper middle class
and farmers used buggies
and the rich used elegant
4-wheel carriages for
local use.
• Today, horse and buggy is
still used by the Amish

12. Automobiles
• In 1898, the first automobile began appearing
in NC.
• The early automobiles were called horseless
carriage or buggies.

13. Automobiles
• In New Bern, Gilbert S. Waters built an original
horseless carriage by putting an engine in a
buggy in 1900.
• By 1910, there were an estimated 2,400
automobiles in NC

14. With advances in technology, automobiles have
greatly transformed over the years.
1900 1910 1920
1950 1980 2000

15. Plank Roads
• Plank roads are wooden roads
used over rough dirt roads.
• They were used in the mid
1800s.
• In 1850, there were 500 miles of
plank roads in NC.
• Companies placed toll houses
along the road to help pay for
the construction.
• Plank roads didn’t last long
because people took alternate
routes around the toll houses
and there wasn’t enough
money to fix them, more people
traveled by train, many were
destroyed in the Civil War.

16. Airplanes
• On December
17, 1903, Wilbur and
Orville Wright
accomplished the first
sustained powered
airplane flight in Kill
Devil Hills.
• The airplane is not only
an important invention
in North Carolina, but in
the world.
.
• Traveling by plane is a
lot faster than traveling
by a
horse, train, boat, or car

17. Population

18. Population Growth
• The advances in transportation had a great impact on
population.
• Before statehood, NC was mostly a rural state with very
small towns.
• In the mid-1800s, NC residents migrated from the
coastal plains to the western part of the state.
• Before the Civil War in 1861, there were only four
towns totaling about 2,500 people.
• After the Civil War ended in 1865, population quickly
increased because immigration increased.
• There were over 40 towns by 1910.

19. Population Growth
• Population increased
because there were fewer
deaths.
• Population on farms in
rural areas decreased
because people were
moving to the cities.
• People were moving from
the farms to the cities
because they wanted to
have neighbors close by
and they wanted to work
in factories.
• Small villages began
increasing in every
county.
• Villages started near
major
bridges, railroads, and
useful river landings.

20. Mill Towns
• Mill towns began
developing along rivers.
• Mill towns were family
owned mills that were
built near rivers as a
source of energy.
• People would move near
these mills for work.
• Rocky Mount Mills is
located on the Tar
River, beside battle Park.
• Rocky Mount Mills was
one of the fist cotton
mills in NC. Started
operating in 1820.
• The mill built small simple
mill houses for the
employees.
• The mill closed in
1996, due to the decline
in the southern textile
industry.

21. Rocky Mount
Cotton Mills

22. Land Use
• As people moved from farms to the cities to
work in factories, farm land turns into
shopping centers, neighborhoods, and more
factories.
• People came to North Carolina from Virginia in
search of new land to grow tobacco.
• In 1860 there were 67,000 farms and in 1900
there were 224,637 farms in NC.
• In 2011, there were only 50,400 farms.

24. Technology

25. Changes in Technology
• Technology has had a huge impact on the
changes in NC.
• Without technology, people wouldn’t have
known how to use steam for power and
transportation and communication would not
be how it is today. As technology advances so
does everything else.

26. Communication
• Before statehood there was not many ways for
people to communicate.
• When people first came to North Carolina, letters
were the only form of communication, but it
could take weeks for the letters to be delivered.
• The mail system began in the 1600s. It was
carried by friends, merchants, and Native
Americans.
• In the 1800s, postal systems were often run by a
local citizen out of his home and traveled by
horse.

27. Telegraph
• The first telegraph in
America was created in
1844 by Samuel Morse.
• It was the first form of
communication that
could be sent from a
great distance.
• The telegraph was the
best way to communicate
in the mid 1800s because
it was the fastest way to
communicate.
• Telegraphs used a dash
and dot code to send
messages.
• The code was called
Mores Code

28. Telephone
• The telephone and the
telegraph were very
similar, but using Morse
Code you were only able
to receive and send one
message at a time.
• Alexander Bell introduced
the telephone in 1876.
• He discovered human
voices could be
transmitted over a wire
by using electricity when
experimenting with the
telegraph.
• The telephone did not
become popular in
households until the late
1800s because most of
the area didn’t have the
wiring to provide service.

29. Technology Impacts
Global Awareness Through….
• Radio & Television
• Radio was developed in the
early 1900s. People listened to
the radio to learn about what
was going on in the rest of the
country. It wasn’t until the
mid 1900s that radios were
used as musical
entertainment.
• In the early 1900s, the
electronic television was
invented. It wasn’t until the
mid 1900s that TVs became a
“must have”.

30. Technology Improves
• Business opportunities & Health care
• With technology advancing and things
becoming more developed it increased more
business opportunities because more job
openings.
• Heath care was improving because there were
advances in medicines.