I was in the process of writing a scathing commentary on Bill Harrison’s comparison between Great Depression and Great Recession education spending when I came across the elementary school matching test below.
It is from “North Carolina: Suggestions for Applying the Social Studies” (State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1939). Enjoy!
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1 | was a pirate who terrorized the Carolina coast. | |
| Zebulon B. Vance | 2 | was a friendly Indian who greatly aided Raleigh’s colonists | |
| Richard Caswell | 3 | governor of the colony that was “lost” | |
| Blackbeard | 4 | surveyor-general who wrote the famous History of North Carolina, originally published in 1709. | |
| Calvin H. Wiley | 5 | born in Raleigh and later became president of the United States. | |
| William Tryon | 6 | Sent colonists to Roanoke Island in 1587 | |
| William Drummond | 7 | was a famous soldier in the French and Indian war | |
| John Lawson | 8 | elected first governor of North Carolina independent of Great Britain | |
| William Gaston | 9 | was governor of North Carolina during a part of the Civil War | |
| William R. Davie | 10 | wrote “The Old North State,” our State song | |
| John White | 11 | first president of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina | |
| Andrew Johnson | 12 | a leader in the tobacco and power industries and chief benefactor of Duke University | |
| Manteo | 13 | was elected first State Superintendent of Common Schools | |
| Dorothea L. Dix | 14 | is known as the “father of the University of North Carolina” | |
| Archibald D. Murphey | 15 | led the movement to establish a State hospital for the insane | |
| Charles D. Mclver | 16 | is often called the “Father of the Common Schools” | |
| James B. Duke | 17 | governor of North Carolina (1841-1845), most prominent leader in the building of railroads in the State, | |
| John M. Morehead | 18 | led the movement of pioneers from North Carolina into Kentucky | |
| Daniel Boone | 19 | was North Carolina’s World War governor | |
| Hugh Waddell | 20 | most famous of the North Carolina short story writers | |
| 21 | selected by the Lords Proprietors as first governor of Carolina | ||
| 22 | royal governor of North Carolina during the Regulator Movement |
