Ledbetter
NC History
Course Overview
2010-11
1. Course introduction
2. Introduction North Carolina/Geography
3. The First North Americans/Primitive Cultures
4. Europeans – The Explorers
5. Spain – The Conquerors
6. England – Exploration & the Lost Colony
7. England’s 1st Colonies
8. The 13 Colonies – North Carolina’s Role
9. England & the Colonies – A Conflict is Brewing
10. The War for Independence (or the Revolutionary War)
11. Forming a Government/How is our President Elected?
12. North Carolina – Economic/Political Growth
13. Slavery: Abolition & Compromise
14. Fighting the Civil War – Why Did We Fight?
15. Reconstruction of the South
16. Racial Tensions: Jim Crow & the KKK
17. The Industrial Revolution
18. The Great War: WWI
19. The Roaring Twenties
20. The Great Depression
21. Another World War: WWII
22. M.A.D.: The Cold War
23. Civil Rights
24. The Sixties
25. The World Today
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