When was carolina divided

The English government, though, was unhappy with its proprietary colonies. King and Parliament wanted taxes collected, colonists defended, and order maintained -- just as most residents of North Carolina did -- and they didn't believe that the various proprietors were managing their colonies properly. In , South Carolina, which had more resources than North Carolina and was therefore more valuable to England, was taken back from the Proprietors and made a royal colony.

While a proprietary colony was ruled by proprietors or owners in the king's place, a royal colony was ruled directly by the king.

The king, or his officials, appointed the colony's governor and had the right to approve or disapprove its laws. Carteret continued to own one-eighth of the colony's land, though he had no say in its government. Carteret would later inherit the title Earl Granville, and the management of his land, known as the Granville District, would cause problems for colonists later on.

Now that the king's officials appointed provincial governors, North Carolina's government became more stable and effective after But many precedents had been established during the years of chaos that would continue to define the colony. The Assembly had gained a great deal of power at the expense of weak governors, and would keep that power throughout the colonial period. County and town governments, and especially courts, were what most people relied on and had the most contact with.

North Carolinians had come to rely on themselves and on local officials whom they knew and trusted, and they had come to associate high-level officials with incompetence and corruption -- an association they would keep throughout the eighteenth century.

In , North Carolina had about 36, inhabitants, most of whom lived in the Albemarle region. Small towns, many of which were too small to be incorporated , had become the focus of local government, where courts were held. When towns grew larger and were incorporated, gaining their own municipal governments, they became homes to merchants and craftspeople and centers for further settlement. Settlement gradually spread down the coast, reaching the Cape Fear by the mids.

Most people continued to live in rough, poor conditions, but they seem to have been relatively content. By the s, settlers were arriving in the Piedmont from Europe or from northern colonies, bringing with them new cultures, languages, and religions. And as the economy of the more established Coastal Plain grew, colonists began to import more slaves from Africa. Porter's faction accepted Glover at first, but he, too, resolved to keep Quakers out of office.

Porter's group then formed an alliance with Cary, who returned to reclaim the governorship and appointed a number of Quakers to office.

Cary's government remained in control until 7 December , when the Lords Proprietors, disappointed with the chaotic conditions in the colony, appointed Edward Hyde as Governor of North Carolina , separate from the Governor of Carolina.

When Hyde took office, he nullified all of Cary's laws and reinstated laws establishing the Church of England as the official church of the colony. Cary planned a coup, but his attempt collapsed in a comedy of errors. In the end, Cary's supporters fled and Cary was tried in England but eventually acquitted for lack of evidence. During the early period of its existence Albemarle was administered by governors and presidents who were independent of those on Ashley River.

Under Ludwell and his successors, until , the northern settlements were administered by deputy governors, who, with one exception, were the immediate appointees of the governors resident at Charles Town.

At the beginning of that period the two parts of the province began to be known respectively as North and South Carolina. By virtue of that office he became Acting Governor, and continued such until his death in The appointment of deputies was then resumed, and continued until Pollock was again President for a brief time in , but, with that exception, North Carolina had distinct governors of its own ever after The governors of South Carolina, even during the years when they appointed deputies for the northern province, paid little or no attention to its affairs.

The Lords Proprietors also continued toward Albemarle their policy of systematic neglect, save when internal anarchy compelled brief attention.

Occasionally, as in earlier times, they left it without government. The appointees were nearly all colonists. The elected Presidents, of course, were such. None, except Archdale, were connected with the families of the Lords Proprietors.

The Lords Proprietors apparently corresponded very little with the governors, and the governors scarcely ever wrote to the Lords Proprietors. None except the usual formal instructions were given them by the Lords Proprietors. In Albemarle, as on the Ashley River, the Executive Council continued to have an elected element until After the deputies were appointed by joint action of the Lords Proprietors, and not by the separate act of each of the Lords Proprietors.

Of the Executive Council in its legislative capacity we have very few distinct records in the proprietary period. The extant records of the Executive Council begin in under Gov. In its executive capacity the Council advised the governor concerning appointments, regulated fees, approved the payment of salaries, ordered the arrest of parties for the non-payment of taxes, ordered out men and supplies for defense, shared in negotiation with the Indians, and with neighboring colonies, laid embargos on the exportation of corn in times of scarcity.

When the Republican Party formed in with a platform opposing the expansion of slavery, these 11 states began to consider secession. North Carolina Senator Thomas Clingman expressed secessionists views the same year. Unlike its Carolina sibling to the South, however, North Carolinians generally expressed a pro Union sentiment.

That is until three pivotal events took place; the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was not on the Presidential Ballot in North Carolina or any southern state; the capture of Fort Sumter, S. On May 1, , Governor Ellis ordered seizure of all federal property and called a Special Session of the General Assembly to consider secession.

The convention took place at the State Capitol in Raleigh on May 20, Ironically, some slave holders like former Governor David S.

Reid were lukewarm toward secession. As a result, the date, May 20 th , , was inscribed on the former North Carolina flag from June to March , while May 20 th , was inscribed on both the former and current North Carolina flag.