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- Mid-1800s reform era group presentations
- Students will work in groups to present information on the reforms of the mid 1800's. Topics could include the Unitarians, abolition, women's rights, growth in education, treatment of the mentally ill, temperance, and utopian communities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.7
- Dorothea Dix, a reformer from New England, came to North Carolina in the 1840s to campaign for a state mental hospital that would provide humane care to the mentally ill. Her efforts resulted in the construction of Dix Hill Asylum (now called Dorothea Dix Hospital) which opened in 1856.
- Format: article
- North Carolina in the New Nation
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the early national period (1790–1836). Topics include the development of state government and political parties, agriculture, the Great Revival, education, the gold rush, the growth of slavery, Cherokee Removal, and battles over internal improvements and reform.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- North Carolina women and the Progressive Movement
- This lesson includes primary sources from Documenting the American South specifically related to North Carolina women involved in reform movements characteristic of the Progressive era. For the most part, these documents detail women's work in education-related reform and describe the creation of schools for women in the state. They also demonstrate that, as was true in the rest of the nation, the progressive, female reformers of N.C. were segregated based on race and socio-economic status.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Meghan Mcglinn.
- A women's college
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.3
- The State Normal and Industrial School, founded in 1891, was the first public institution of higher education in North Carolina to admit women. It was established primarily to train teachers for the state's public schools. Today it is the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Format: article
- Criminal law and reform
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.6
- In the early nineteenth century, North Carolina had more than two dozen crimes punishable by death, and the state kept a variety of physical and humiliating punishments on the books as well. Reformers tried to make the criminal code clearer and more humane, but they made little progress before the Civil War.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The election process
- In Election 2008, page 3.3
- Resources that examine the various aspects of the American election process from contemporary and historical perspectives.
- Format: bibliography
- Exploring the 1835 NC Constitutional Convention
- This Internet Scavenger Hunt allows students to read the actual proceedings of the 1835 Constitutional Convention while they discover for themselves some of the significant amendments that were made. The activity also sets the foundation for class discussions about why the state Constitution was amended in 1835 and what impact the amendments had on religious groups, free blacks, and American Indians.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Jean.
- Ratifying the amendments
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.4
- In 1835, a convention passed amendments to the North Carolina state constitution. In this activity, students map votes for ratification by county and explain the patterns they see.
- Format: activity
- By David Walbert.
- Reform movements across the United States
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.2
- In the 1830s and 1840s, a wave of social and political reform swept the United States. Various groups of reformers, often inspired by religion, worked to expand the vote, promote equal rights for women, improve labor conditions, build free public schools, limit alcohol use, and improve treatment of criminals and the insane.
- Format: article
- Membership certificate for the Independent Benevolent Society of Philadelphia
- On a pedestal in an oval a woman is seated with three children under the caption "God assisting us, nothing is to be feared." To the right stands a woman holding a staff on which is a liberty cap, to the left another woman, with cornucopia, spreads her robe...
- Format: image/document
- Turning the century
- Students will create a museum display illustrating life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Lisa Stamey.
- Asia
- Learn about the history, cultures, and geography of the nations and peoples of Asia from this sampling of great educational resources that can be found on LEARN NC.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Children at Work: Exposing child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas
- In this lesson, students will learn about the use of child labor in the cotton mills of the Carolinas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They will learn what life was like for a child worker and then write an investigative news report exposing the practice of child labor in the mills, using quotations from oral histories with former child mill workers and photographs of child laborers taken by social reform photographer Lewis Hine.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- North Carolina e-Learning for Educators
- A description of the North Carolina e-Learning for Educators program, a series of high-quality, low-cost professional development courses.
- Format: article/help
- Team tag
- Students communicate, collaborate, and commit to their team and to the team's strategy. A team's desire for hard work and unselfishness makes for their success.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Healthful Living)
- By B.A. Byerly.
- What a revival is
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.4
- Explanation by Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), Christian revivalist preacher, of what a revival is and why it is necessary. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Populists, fusionists, and white supremacists: North Carolina politics from Reconstruction to the Election of 1898
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 7.2
- After Reconstruction, Conservatives (later Democrats) reversed many of the gains Republicans had made while in power. In the 1890s, the new People's (or Populist) Party joined with Republicans in a "fusion" campaign that briefly won control of the state government.
- Format: article
- By Nicholas Graham.
- Republican rule
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.1
- Newspaper editorial praising the accomplishments of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Industrialization and Progressive Reform in the Craft Revival
- In this lesson plan, originally published on the Craft Revival website, students will analyze the process of making a hobby into a job. They will explore Craft Revival work environments, representations of industrial work environments, and data regarding Craft Revival work. To close the activity, students write a journal entry comparing Craft Revival and industrial work experiences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Patrick Velde.
