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Alamance Cotton Mill: Alamance Cotton Mill, as it appeared in 1837 shortly after construction. The mill was built by Edwin M. Holt, a pioneer of the Southern textile industry.; Format: image/photograph

America needs your scrap rubber: U.S. Government poster from World War II illustrating the military need for rubber.; Format: image/poster

The Bonsack machine and labor unrest: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.7; When the Duke tobacco company adopted the Bonsack machine for rolling cigarettes, workers who had rolled cigarettes by hand were thrown out of work, and their replacements made less money.; Format: article

The Committees of Safety: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.9; Excerpts from the minutes of the Committees of Safety set up in North Carolina towns and counties, 1775, for the purpose of enforcing the trade boycott against Britain. Includes historical commentary.; Format: document

Cover of Opportunity magazine, February 1926: Cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, February 1926: Industrial Issue. Shows two black silhouetted workers at a blacksmith's forge surrounded by fire and lightning.; Format: image/magazine

The Dukes of Durham: In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.7; After the Civil War, Orange County farmer Washington Duke put everything he had into growing tobacco. From farming he quickly expanded into manufacturing, and by the end of the nineteenth century, his son controlled the largest tobacco industry in the world.; Format: article

From the North Carolina Gold-Mine Company: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.3; An 1806 report on North Carolina's gold mining region, including notes on geology and a description of the early work of mining. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Growth and transformation: The United States in the Gilded Age: In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.1; Between the Civil War and the First World War, industry and cities grew at a tremendous pace in the United States.; Format: article

Industrialization in North Carolina: In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.3; Industrialization needed five things -- capital, labor, raw materials, markets, and transportation -- and in the 1870s, North Carolina had all of them. This article explains the process of industrialization in North Carolina, with maps of factory and railroad growth.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Inventions in the tobacco industry: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.6; Several inventions made the tobacco industry so highly profitable in the late nineteenth century, including machines for tying strings on bags and for rolling cigarettes.; Format: bibliography

The Knights of Labor: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.10; Excerpt from the 1878 Platform of the Knights of Labor, an early labor union. Includes historical commentary.; Format: declaration; Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.

Life on the land: The Piedmont before industrialization: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.1; In the decades after the Civil War, commercial agriculture and industry made their way into the North Carolina Piedmont, requiring subsistence farmers to adapt their farms and their ways of life to new economic realities.; Format: article; By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.

Naval stores and the longleaf pine: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.4; North Carolina's extensive longleaf pine forests provided the natural resources needed to produce materials needed to build and maintain ships -- not only timber but tar, pitch, and rosin. These "naval stores" became North Carolina's most important indusstry in the eighteenth century, but today, the longleaf pine forests are nearly gone.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

The North Carolina Gold Rush: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.1; Gold was discovered in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in 1799, and within a few years, the North Carolina Gold Rush was on. Men arrived in the Piedmont to work in the mines, many of them from Cornwall in England.; Format: article; By Rebecca Lewis.

Opposition to the Knights of Labor: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.11; Editorial in a Durham newspaper, 1887, expressing concern about the Knights of Labor. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper

The Reed Gold Mine: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 6.2; A brief history of Cabarrus County farmer John Reed and his gold mine, from the first discovery of gold in 1799 to the establishment of a valuable and productive mine.; Format: book

The rise of labor unions: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.9; Little of the wealth that industry produced went to workers, and improvements in technology further reduced wages without making work any easier or less dangerous. In the late ninenteenth century, workers began to organize to demand higher wages and better working conditions.; Format: article

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