Students, welcome to 4th grade Social Studies. This year you will go on many exciting adventures while

you learn about important events that have happened in NC.

Now let’s get out our magnifying glasses and become detectives. Your

job is to analyze a map of North Carolina, then click on each marker to

discover what exciting event took place there. Use your clues to figure

out which city belongs with each clue.

Clues-(Students will be given a copy)

• Which city is now home to the group of Indians that had to walk “The Trail of Tears” ?• Which city was where the first flight took place?• Which city was the state’s first colonial capitol?• Which city did Blackbeard the pirate make his home?• Which city is the state capitol of NC today?• Which city was where the first English colony was established, which came to be known as “The Lost Colony”?• Which city was the home of the largest Civil War battle in NC?• Which city was the home of the first permanent state capitol? • Which city is where the largest home in America was built?• Which city was important during the American Revolution because it declared its independence from England?• Which city was home to North Carolina’s first deep water port?• Which city was home to one of the South’s largest Civil War plantations? • Which city is home to the Moravian people called Old Salem? • Which city is home to the state’s first University? • Which city is home to the first Army based established in NC?

Map of North Carolina

Cherokee

Bath

Roanoke

Halifax

Four Oaks

Check Your Knowledge

• Click on the link below and choose one of the games to play to check your knowledge about what you just learned.

• http://www.classtools.net/mob/quiz_75/Important_NC_Cities_JP7K0.htm