Educational Resources

The following lesson plans are intended to supplement and enhance your existing curriculum.

North Carolina Entrepreneurs

Caleb Bradham, Inventor of “Brad’s Drink”

Charlotte Hawkins Brown, A Pioneer for Quality Education

Ella Jo Baker, Civil Rights Entrepreneur

Hiram Rhodes Revels: Teacher, Pastor, Senator, and Entrepreneur!

Joe and Eunice Dudley

John Clarence Scarborough

John Merrick, Charles Spaulding, and Mutual Life

Ralph Ketner and the Food Lion Story

Robert Luddy’s Schools

The Inventions and Leadership of Parker David Robbins

Thomas Day, Master Craftsman

The History of Transportation in North Carolina

Part 1 Rough Roads and a Complicated Coastline

Part 2 More Travel Troubles: Big Mountains and Small Rivers

Part 3 Steam Power and Railroads Awaken the Rip Van Winkle State

A Secret Basketball Game

The Great North Carolina Gold Rush

Historic Homes of North Carolina

Real Life Dream Homes of the Past

Research Triangle Park

The American Revolution in North Carolina

North Carolina and the British Southern Campaign Part 1

North Carolina and the British Southern Campaign Part 2

Patriots, Redcoats, and Loyalists

The Battle of Guilford County Courthouse: A loss that allowed the Patriots to win the American Revolutionary War

The Regulator Rebellion

Signers of the U.S. Constitution from North Carolina

Hugh Williamson (1735-1819)

Richard Spaight (1758-1802)

William Blount (1749-1800)

Our Federal System of Government

North Carolina's Legislative Branch

The General Assembly

The Governor and The Council of State

North Carolina's Judicial Branch

The Courts

The North Carolina Flag

First In Freedom (Part 1)

First In Freedom (Part 2)

Illustration Credits

North Carolina Lotteries

In the Colonial Era and the Early Republic

Dueling in North Carolina

Dueling In North Carolina

US Presidents From North Carolina

Part 1: Andrew Jackson and the American Meritocracy

Part 2: Andrew Jackson’s Controversial Presidency (1829–1837)

North Carolina's 1835 Constitutional Amendments

North Carolina’s 1835 Constitutional Amendments

North Carolina During The Civil War

Part 1: North Carolina’s Response to the Election of 1860

Part 2: North Carolina’s Response to the Battle of Fort Sumter

Part 3: The War in North Carolina

Important North Carolina Women

Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883–1961)

Ella Baker (1907–1986)

Susie Sharp (1907–1996)

The Reconstruction Era In North Carolina

Part 1: Two Reconstructions

Part 2: The Radical Reconstruction Era in North Carolina

North Carolina Politics In The Late 1800s

The Rise and Fall of the Fusionist Alliance

Clogging: A North Carolina Folk Dance Tradition

The History Of Tobacco In North Carolina

Sweet Potatoes: North Carolina's State Vegetable

Sweet Potatoes: North Carolina’s State Vegetable

A Criminal With A Boat

The Real Story Of Blackbeard The Pirate

The History Of North Carolina's Textile Industry

Part 1: What Are Textiles?

Part 2: The Textile Industry Comes to North Carolina

From Regulators to Revolutionaries

North Carolina’s Path From Colony To State

Ahead Of His Time

Archibald Murphey’s Bold Ideas to Improve Education and Transportation

The Debate Over The US Constitution In North Carolina

Meet The Anti-Federalists

Meet the Federalists

Part 1: The Articles of Confederation, America’s Flawed First Constitution

Part 2: The 1787 Constitution, Federalists, and Anti-Federalists

Part 3: Yes, If… The 1788 Hillsborough Convention

A Secret Basketball Game

The American Revolution in North Carolina

Patriots and Whigs, Loyalists and Tories: Who Were They?

The Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

The Halifax Resolves

The Proclamation of 1763 and the “Overmountain Men”

Illustration Credits

Middle School Lesson Image Credits

Colonial-Era North Carolina and the American Revolution

North Carolina Women Respond to the Intolerable Acts

Remembering the Halifax Resolves

The Debate Surrounding the “Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence”

The Effects of the Proclamation of 1763 in North Carolina

The End of British Control of North Carolina

North Carolina’s Constitution

A Brief History of the Constitutions of North Carolina

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the North Carolina Constitution, Part 1

Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in the North Carolina Constitution, Part 2

North Carolina as a Young Nation

Gristmills: North Carolina’s First “Public Utility”

North Carolina’s Role in Establishing the Principle of Judicial Review

The Debate over the U.S. Constitution in North Carolina

The Effects of North Carolina’s Cession of Western Land

Education in North Carolina’s History

The Early History of Public Education in North Carolina

The History of North Carolina State University

What the Origin of the University of North Carolina Tells Us about the State

Slavery and Its Long-term Impact

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Use of North Carolina Court Documents to Promote Abolitionism in the 1850s

The 1829 State v. Mann Case and the 1834 State v. Will Case

The Kirk–Holden War and the Impeachment of Governor William Woods Holden

The Pearsall Plan, a Response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Modern North Carolina

How Charlotte Grew into a Major U.S. Banking Center

The Battle of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina

The Modern History of North Carolina Tobacco

The Wright Brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Three Acclaimed American Authors with Ties to North Carolina

Environmental Protection in North Carolina

Fundamental Principles Expressed in the 1776 Declaration of Rights

Protecting North Carolina’s Tar-Pamlico River Basin

Unintended Consequences of the Endangered Species Act in North Carolina

Colonial-Era North Carolina and the Freedom of Religion

Colonial-Era Migration into North Carolina along the Great Wagon Road

Colonial-Era North Carolina and the Freedom of Religion

Illustration Credits

High School Lesson Image Credits