School History of North Carolina (From 1584 to the Present Time) | Page 2

Worth
and President Johnson LXVI. Results of Reconstruction LXVII Results
of Reconstruction--Continued LXVIII. Impeachment of Governor
Holden LXIX. Resumption of Self-Government LXX. The Cotton
Trade and Factories LXXI. Progress of Material Development LXXII.
The Railroads and New Towns LXXIII. Literature and Authors LXXIV.

The Colleges and Schools LXXV. Conclusion

APPENDIX.
Constitution of North Carolina Questions on the Constitution

HINTS TO TEACHERS.
It is well known that any subject can be more thoroughly taught when
both the eye and the mind of the pupil are used as mediums for
imparting the knowledge; and the teacher of "North Carolina History"
will find a valuable help in a wall map of the State hung in convenient
position for reference while the history class is reciting.
Require the pupils to go to the map and point out localities when
mentioned, also places adjoining; trace the courses of the rivers which
have a historical interest, and name important towns upon their banks.
A good, reliable wall map of North Carolina can he procured at a
moderate price from the publishers of this work.
It has been deemed proper to make the chapters short, that each may
form one lesson. At the close of each chapter will be found questions
upon the main points of the lesson. These will furnish thought for many
other questions which will suggest themselves to the teacher. There are
many small matters of local State history which can be given with
interest to the class, from time to time, as appropriate periods are
reached. These minor facts could not be included in the compass of a
school book, but a teacher will be helped by referring occasionally to
"Moore's Library History of North Carolina."
Inspire your pupils with a spirit of patriotism and love for their native
State. A little effort in this direction will show you how easily it can be
done. In every boy and girl is a latent feeling of pride in whatever
pertains to the welfare of their native State, and this feeling should be
cultivated and enlarged, and thus the children make better citizens
when grown. The history of our State is filled with events which, told
to the young, will fix their attention, and awaken a desire to know more
of the troubles and noble deeds of the people who laid the foundation
of this Commonwealth.
The Appendix contains the present "Constitution of North Carolina."
Then follows a series of "Questions on the Constitution," prepared

expressly for this work by Hon. Kemp P. Battle, LL. D., President of
the University of North Carolina. This is an entirely new and valuable
feature in a school book, and contains an analysis of our State
government. This is just the information that every citizen of North
Carolina ought to possess, and teachers should require all their students
of this history to read and study the Constitution and endeavor to
answer the questions thereon.
No State in the Union possesses a record of nobler achievements than
North Carolina. Her people have always loved liberty for themselves,
and they offered the same priceless boon to all who came within her
borders; and it was a full knowledge of this trait of our people which
made Bancroft say "North Carolina was settled by the freest of the
free."

CHAPTER I
.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The State of North Carolina is included between the parallels 34° and
362° north latitude, and between the meridians 752° and 842° west
longitude. Its western boundary is the crest of the Smoky Mountains,
which, with the Blue Ridge, forms a part of the great Appalachian
system, extending almost from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the
Gulf of Mexico; its eastern is the Atlantic Ocean. Its mean breadth from
north to south is about one hundred miles; its extreme breadth is one
hundred and eighty-eight miles. The extreme length of the State from
east to west is five hundred miles. The area embraced within its
boundaries is fifty-two thousand two hundred and eighty-six square
miles.
2. The climate of North Carolina is mild and equable. This is due in
part to its geographical position; midway, as it were, between the
northern and southern limits of the Union. Two other causes concur to
modify it; the one, the lofty Appalachian chain, which forms, to some
extent, a shield from the bleak winds of the northwest; the other, the
softening influence of the Gulf Stream, the current of which sweeps
along near its shores.
3. The result of these combined causes is shown in the character of the

seasons. Fogs are almost unknown; frosts occur not until the middle of
October; ice rarely forms of a sufficient thickness to be gathered; snows
are light, seldom remaining on the ground more than two or three days.