Sharp’s History Class Page

 

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The Rough Syllabus

Unit 1- North Carolina Geography

Unit 2- Native Americans

Unit 3- European Exploration

Unit 4- English Colonization and Contact with Native Americans

Unit 5- The 13 English Colonies and North Carolina as a Colony

Unit 6- The Road to Revolution and the American Revolution

Unit 7- The New Republic, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and North Carolina Government

Unit 8- North Carolina and America through the Jackson Presidency

Unit 9- Antebellum Slavery and Abolitionists

Unit 10-Antebellum Politics and the Dividing Nation

Unit 11- The Civil War                                                                        

Unit 12- Reconstruction

Unit 13- Post War North Carolina and Industrial Growth

Unit 14- The Progressive Era

Unit 15- World War I

Unit 16- The Great  Depression

Unit 17- World War II

Unit 18- The Civil Rights Movement

Unit 19- Modern North Carolina

 

Click on a picture below to link to a biography about that person

 

                          

 

            

 

            

 

            

 

Some Internet links used in Class and others that relate to class

 

Daily News- National and World

Local News

Archaeology Lessons

Historical Highlights of N.C.

The Lost Colony

Old Salem

Colonial Williamsburg

The Road to Revolution

Benjamin Franklin

Tryon Palace

Constitution

United States Government

North Carolina Government

War of 1812

Slavery

Modern Day Slavery

The Civil War

Women’s Rights

Susan B. Anthony

The World War I Document Archive

The Great Depression

Woody Guthrie

Battleship North Carolina

Greensboro Sit-Ins