North+Carolina's+Role+in+the+New+Nation

=The Hillsborough Convention=

would accept the Union if some changes were put into the Constitution.
= = =The Fayetteville Convention=

In November 1788, the North Carolina legislature called for a second vote on the Constitution. A year later, in November 1789, another convention met in Fayetteville.


=North Carolina had been a backwater colony before the Revolution. Little changed, relatively speaking, once the Constitution was written.=

=North Carolina and Federalism=

North Carolina's defiant character came out soon after the state joined the Union. Congress had passed a law to organize the United States Supreme Court.


=North Carolinians Become Jeffersonians= ==Americans who came to distrust the Federalists rallied to the leadership of Thomas Jefferson. The Virginian, who had been the author of the Declaration of Independence, believed the Constitution did not give the Federalists the power to do all the things they wanted to do.==