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- America's first people
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.2
- These activities, designed to accompany "First Peoples" and "The Mystery of the First Americans," will enable students to explore the origins of human populations in North America.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- British migration to Roanoke: Push and pull factors
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 4.1
- In this lesson, students will examine the push/pull factors that led settlers to attempt to settle Roanoke Island in the 1580s.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Merrie olde England?
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.2
- Many residents of Elizabethan England did not enjoy the abundance that accompanied Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The dawn of the age of exploration gripped people’s imaginations and caused many to dream of travel, and the New World offered the promise of a fresh start without the problems of the old country.
- Format: article
- By Charles Carlton.
- Migration into and out of North Carolina: Exploring census data
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.2
- Just how many people left North Carolina in the first half of the nineteenth century -- and where did they go? To answer questions like this, the best place to turn is census records. The census can't tell us why people moved, but a look at the numbers can give us a sense of the scale of the migration.
- Format: activity
- By David Walbert.
- The mystery of the first Americans
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.2
- In the second half of the twentieth century, archaeologists agreed that those “first Americans” migrated from Asia across Beringia and into North America between fourteen and twenty thousand years ago. Recently, though, new evidence has come to light that has led some archaeologists to doubt that theory and to suggest new possibilities.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- North Carolina's leaders speak out on emigration
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.3
- Excerpts from a speech by Governor William Miller, 1816, and from an 1833 legislative committee report, both bemoaning the lack of economic opportunities for North Carolina's citizens. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Oregon Inlet
- In Natural and human impacts on the northern Outer Banks, page 16
- The formation and migration of inlets is another important natural process that takes place on the Outer Banks. Inlets perform two primary functions during storms. They allow the storm surge that piles up in the sound to escape, and they also allow the fresh...
- By Blair Tormey and Dirk Frankenberg.
- "The present state of North Carolina": Making decisions
- In this lesson, students read an excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 book A New Voyage to Carolina and use a graphic organizer to decide whether they would have emigrated to Carolina as a result of reading Lawson's book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Provisions for Carolina: Comparing lists
- In this lesson, students will compare and contrast two historical documents: A list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Virginia in 1622, and a similar list of recommended provisions for colonists traveling to Carolina in 1709. Students will infer what has changed and what has stayed the same between the publication of these two documents.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Searching for greener pastures: Out-migration in the 1800s
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.1
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of emigration flowed from North Carolina to western states and territories. North Carolinians were pushed by a lack of economic opportunity at home and pulled by open land in the West. Only after the 1830s, when a progressive political leadership supported schools and internal improvements, did out-migration slow.
- Format: article
- By Donald R. Lennon and Fred D. Ragan.
- Supplies for Virginia colonists, 1622
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.2
- A 1622 broadside listing recommended supplies for British colonists to bring to Virginia.
- Format: document
- Theories of migration
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.1
- In this lesson, students will read about and evaluate differing theories about the migration of the first people to the Americas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
