The Rip Van Winkle State

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The Rip Van Winkle State

• North Carolina
• Chapter 7 Section 1

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Read to Discover

• What caused economic stagnation in North
  Carolina?
• What were the effects of North Carolinas
  stagnation?
• Why did people move away from North Carolina?

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What was North Carolina like during the period
after the War of 1812?

• Poor
• Isolated
• Unchanged

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Where did the name Rip Van Winkle State
originate?

• Click here to read the Story of "Rip Van Winkle"
  by Washington Irving.

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Causes of Stagnation

• Isolation and Independence
• Lack of democracy
• Slavery
• monoculture

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Stagnation

• Stagnation- Situation in which economic
  conditions do not change over a long period of
  time.
• North Carolina!., Leloudis, James L Dr., Holt,
  Rinehart, and Winston. Austin, 2003

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What were the effects of North Carolinas
stagnation?

• Farmers and their children are illiterate.
• Internal Improvements

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Contrast What were the differences between the
eastern planters and citizens in the rest of the
state?

• Eastern Planters
• Well educated
• Held wealth
• Political power
• Well connected to the outside world

• Other Citizens
• Many were illiterate
• Independent
• Isolated

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Why did people leave North Carolina?

• Hard life working long hours
• Richer land
• Better transportation
• Chance to improve themselves socially and
  economically
• Against slavery

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Why did North Carolina have little business or
industry during the 1830s?

• North Carolina lacked a cash crop, seaports,
  internal transportation, products or markets.

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What effect do you think the mass migration of
people out of North Carolina had on the future
development of the state? Support your answer.

• Books answer
• Economy was depressed
• Morale was low
• Fewer workers

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Define or Identify

• Stagnation
• Monoculture
• Illiterate
• Rip Van Winkle State

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Stagnation in North Carolina

• Poor transportation
• Isolation
• Undemocratic government

Illiteracy Lack of a public school system No
internal improvements