1835+Constitution


 * __Constitution of 1835__**

North Carolina's voters went to the polls to vote, in 1835, to decide to whether to have a constitutional convention. This convention would address the problems. In the end the west said yes and the east said no. Because the west had more people by the time the "ayes" had it. The greatest need that needed to be discussed during the convention was tto make representation fair across the state. To solve this the delegates came to a compromise. Each county would still have at least one representative in the house, but more populouse counties would have multiple representatives. The west was happy with this. In return, the west agreed that the state senate would be apportioned by wealth. This meant that the wealthier a county, the more senators it got. The easy was happy with this because they contained most of the expensive land and the majority of the slaves. Other problems were discussed such as how to elect a governor. The voter's would now elect him directly instead of letting the legislature choose him. Not all reforms, however, resulted in more people getting to vote. The writers of the 1776 constitiution never considered that free black men might bvote, such men of color had been able to go to the polls. This was forbidden in the 1835 ammendments. Suffrage was also taken away from the Native Americans such as the Lumbee. The Convention did open up politicsl leadership to more religious groups. The new ammendments removed restrictions from the Catholics, but still denied Jews and ahteists the right to hold office. The ammendmentds were submittd to the state's voters for approval. They passed by a vote of 26,771 to 21,606. They were approved since the blance of population had shifted more to the west.

**__Kit Carson__**

Kit Carson is one of the three of the nation's greatest explorers that, in some way or another, had a North Carolina connetion. Although tradition says that Carson was born in Kentucky and raised in Missouri, the Carson family has always claimed that he was a North CArolina native. Kit(the family nickname for Christopher was orphaned as a child and put to work as a saddle maker. He ran away at the age of fifteen and became a cook and errand boy on the Santa Fe Trail. With a height of barely 5 ft tall, Kit soon became one of the most famous hunters and trappers in the nation. He had done many things for the nation that caused him to become so famous. His last action for the nation, however, was the least admirable. He drove many of the Navaho off their land and onto a reservation. Many suffered because of the action, a sad end to the career of one white man who had long been a friend to the Indians. He died after the Civil War.

North Carolina Constitution