\nComic sample page #2: How hard is Dogwood wood?<\/a>
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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> The first known European exploration of North Carolina happens during the summer of 1524. A Florentine navigator named Giovanni da Verrazano is working for France and explores the coastal area. Between 1540 and 1570 some Spanish explorers come up from their Florida territory to check things out. But it is the English who try to settle the coast of Carolina . . .<\/p>\n Colonial Carolina includes the following topics:<\/p>\n Why did the English settle in America? Chapter 2: Carolina in the 1800s<\/strong><\/p>\n After the Revolutionary War brings freedom to North Carolina, the first state capitol is built in Raleigh in 1794 and North Carolina gives up its western lands in 1790 (they will become the state of Tennessee). Before the Civil War, two North Carolina natives become president of the United States: Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) and James K. Polk (1845-1849). Then North Carolina secedes and joins the Confederacy in May 1861; it gains its nickname \u201cThe Tar Heel State\u201d during Civil War battles in which its soldiers stick on the battlefield longer than troops from other Southern states . . .<\/p>\n Carolina in the 1800s includes the following topics:<\/p>\n How did James Polk help Oregon become a state? Chapter 3: Know Your Wrights<\/strong><\/p>\n As the 1800s come to a close, dozens of people around the world are trying to solve the problem of giving mankind the power to fly through the air in a heavier-than-air craft. Two bicycle makers from Ohio decide the best place to try their own aircraft ideas is on the windy, sandy dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina . . .<\/p>\n Know Your Wrights includes the following topics:<\/p>\n How did the Wright brothers control flight? Chapter 4: Tale Of the Dogwood<\/strong><\/p>\n North Carolina has many symbols – pictures that stand for something else. The official state vegetable is the sweet potato, the state bird is the cardinal, and the state tree is the pine. The state flower also comes from a tree – the dogwood. The dogwood tree can be found across North Carolina, from the mountains to the coast. People enjoy the dogwood\u2019s white or pink bracts, which appear in springtime.<\/p>\n Tale of the Dogwood includes the following topics:<\/p>\n How hard is dogwood wood? <\/a><\/p>\n One of the first British attempts to settle North America was in North Carolina. But the Roanoke colony has trouble from the beginning with its location, its food supply, and its relations with the first Americans living nearby. That settlement … Continue reading
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\nChapter 1: Colonial Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhen was the first Roanoke Colony?
\nWhen was the second Roanoke Colony?
\nWhat was the third Roanoke Colony?
\nWhere did the \u201cLost Colony\u201d go?
\nWhat work did colonists in America do?
\nWhy did American colonists fight Britain?
\nWho were our revolutionary women?<\/p>\n
\nWhere did Robert E. Lee surrender?
\nHow did Andrew Johnson run Reconstruction?
\nWhere did railroads carry textiles in North Carolina?<\/p>\n
\nWhere did the Wright brothers test their ideas?
\nHow long was the first Wright brothers flight?<\/p>\n
\nWho pollinates dogwood trees?
\nHow do dogwood seeds travel?<\/p>\nView the Teacher’s Guide<\/a> for this comic!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"