Antebellum North Carolina

Workshop Contents

• Workshop Introduction
• FAQs
• Participant Background
• Bulletin Board
• Evaluating and Using Online Resources in the Classroom
• Evaluating Web Sites
• Integrating the Internet into Your Curriculum 
• Teaching with Primary Documents
  • Reading Primary Sources
  • What are Political Cartoons?
  • Using Artifacts as Primary Documents
  • Related Links
• Antebellum Timeline
• Session 1: Race and Class in Antebellum North Carolina
• Enslaved and Free People of Color 
• American Indians
• Whites
• Assignment 1
• Session 2: Making a Living
• Cash Crops: Tobacco and Cotton 
• Food Crops: Corn and Wheat
• Naval Stores
• Gold Mining
• Related Links
• Assignment 2 
• Session 3: Political Developments
• Constitutional Convention of 1835 
• Evolution of the Two-Party System in North Carolina
• Union or Disunion? The Crisis over Secession
• Assignment 3
• Session 4: Tough Times Lead to Change
  • Moving Away
  • Nathaniel Macon
  • Internal Improvements
  • Archibald D. Murphey
  • Links
  • Assignment 4
• Session 5: Religious and Social Developments
  • The Rise of Evangelical Protestantism in North Carolina
  • Dorothea Dix and Mental Health Reform
  • Courtship and Marriage
  • Antebellum Education
  • Assignment 5
    

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