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Bacon’s Rebellion is the fourth lesson in the Colonial Period unit with The Great Awakening and French and Indian War to follow. It was preceded by the Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Marquette and Joliet. The pre-Colonial Period saw European explorers, through the use of triangular trade and particularly...
Fewer governors are up for reelection in presidential years than in midterms, but Jim Geraghty of National Review reviews some of the more interesting ones. Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Forest just isn’t making incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper sweat at all though both the Presidential and Senate races are close. Washington...
Jim Geraghty at National Review outlines how Trump won with 306 electoral votes four years ago and thus he can give away 36 electoral votes and hit the critical threshold of 270. He doesn’t need to win Wisconsin. He doesn’t need to win Michigan. He could lose both of those...
The Economist examines the chances of a tarheel blue wave based on an examination of the swing state of North Carolina. By the time Donald Trump and Joe Biden held their debate this week, around 50 million ballots were already cast—almost 40% of the total in 2016. Union County, North...
In studying indigenous cultures, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the Eastern Woodlands Cultivators (Northeast Indians) lived in what are now the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The Northeast culture area reaches from the present-day Canadian provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and...
Sir Walter Raleigh is the nineteenth figure in the exploration of North America by non-indigenous people. This was a continuing effort to map and explore the continent and advance the economic interests of said non-indigenous peoples of North America. It spanned centuries, and consisted of efforts by numerous people and...
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) is the 42nd landmark Supreme Court case, the eighteenth in the Economics module, featured in the KTB Prep American Government and Civics Series designed to acquaint users with the origins, concepts, organizations, and policies of the United States government and political system. The goal is greater...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence “I never ever see race” Thomas aka Justice Sambo just threw us a 3-2 curveball. He saw racism where it existed as he sided with the 4 liberal justices concluding that North Carolina illegally used race in gerrymandering one of its districts. The opinion upheld...
This shift in policy could also create major public safety issues by putting citizens in possible danger from deviant actions by individuals taking improper advantage of a bad policy.” – North Carolina Senator Pat McCrory A man walks into a bathroom. He’s supposed to be there, he says, and nobody...
Presidential elections are a race to 270 electoral votes that turns on maybe a dozen key swing states. Those states are won and lost in a handful of suburban bellwether counties between heavily Democratic cities and heavily Republican rural areas, notes Jim Geraghty. While performance in a primary doesn’t...