North Carolina : significant events that shaped our history

North Carolina Significant Events That Shaped Our History STATEHOOD November 21, 1789 NICKNAMEIS Old North State Tar Heel State MOTTO Esse Quam Videri "To Be Rather Than to Seem u FLAG May 20, 1775 — Mecklenburg Declaration (April 19, 1775 • Battles of Lexington and Concord) April 12, 1776 — Halifax Resolves (February 27, 1776 • Moore's Creek Bridge) CONSTITUTION July 4, 1776 — United States Declaration of Independence December 17, 1776 — State Declaration of Rights December 18, 1776 — North Carolina's first Constitution ratified September 17, 1787 — Federal Constitution proposed July 21 - August 4, 1788 — North Carolina's first Constitutional Convention (no ratification because no bill of rights) September 25, 1789 — Bill of Rights proposed November 1789 — North Carolina ratified U.S. Constitution November 21, 1789 — North Carolina became 12th state of the United States of America December 1789 — North Carolina ratified U.S. Bill of Rights We the People of THE United States, in Order to Form a more perfect Union, Establish justice ...and Secure the Blessings OF LIBERTY... — Preamble to the United States Constitution V December 15, 1791 — Federal Bill of Rights ratified (Articles 3 to 12) May 20, 1861 — North Carolina seceded from the Union December 6, 1865 — 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified (abolition of slavery) April 23, 1868 — North Carolina's 1868 Constitution adopted by popular vote July 4, 1868 — North Carolina is readmitted to the Union February 3, 1870 — 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified (ensuring the African-American right to vote) August 18, 1920 — 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified (ensuring women the right to vote) November 3, 1970 — North Carolina's 1971 Constitution adopted by popular vote COURT 1767 — First courthouse in North Carolina • Chowan County, Edenton November 15, 1777 — Founding of the Superior Court through passage of the North Carolina Judicial Act November 5, 1787 — First reported case of judicial review (Bayard v. Singleton) November 1818 — North Carolina General Assembly creates Supreme Court of North Carolina January 1, 1819 — Founding of the Supreme Court of North Carolina January 9, 1878 — Tabatha A. Holton became the first female licensed attorney in North Carolina March 9, 1962 — Susie Sharp became the first woman justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina 1962 — Samuel S. Mitchell became the first African-American judge in North Carolina December 1966 — Founding of the District Court October 1, 1967 — Founding of the Court of Appeals January 2, 1975 — Susie Sharp became the first woman chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina February 3, 1983 — Henry Frye became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina September 7, 1999 — Henry Frye became the first African-American chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina SIGNIFICANT EVENTS continued