Colonial North Carolina

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Colonial North Carolina
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Where do you get information?
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Two Types of Sources

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Items created used by people that leave clues
  about their lives
• Examples letters, diaries, journals, maps,
  recipes, pictures, artifacts, documents, cartoons
  etc..
• Historical Record
• Evidence about the past

• Items created after something happened
• Talk about someone elses experiences
• Examples textbooks, newspapers, encyclopedia

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Examples of primary sources

• Artifacts

• Documents

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More primary sources

• Oral Histories / Interviews

• http//docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/playback.html?base_fi
  leB-0012duration024421

• Photographs / Paintings / Prints

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More primary sources

• Maps

• Cartoons

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When were the Colonial times

• This timeline will help you understand where in
  history the Colonial times were

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What is a colony?

• A colony is a settlement separated from, but
  under the control of, a home country

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North Carolina Colonial Records

• For this unit we are going to be examining many
  different primary source documents.
• We will be using a special collection found at a
  website called Documenting the American South.
• This website has many different collections and
  is supported by the library at UNC.
• We are going to be using the Colonial and State
  Records of North Carolina
• http//docsouth.unc.edu/csr/

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What do you know about Colonial times?