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Archives, Spring 2001

The American colonies
Jan. 1, 2001: Who were the 13 original colonies?
Jan. 2, 2001: What was the colonial climate?
Jan. 3, 2001: Who started each of the colonies?
Jan. 4, 2001: What work did colonists do?
Jan. 5, 2001: Why did colonists fight Britain?

The Declaration of Independence
Jan. 8, 2001: Why did the 1st Congress meet?
Jan. 9, 2001: Who was the 1st Continental Congress?
Jan. 10, 2001: When did colonists get fired up?
Jan. 11, 2001: Who wrote America's Declaration?
Jan. 12, 2001: What did Jefferson declare in 1776?

The Constitution
Jan. 15, 2001: Why did the Confederation fail?
Jan. 16, 2001: What could fix the Confederation?
Jan. 17, 2001: Who was father of the Constitution?
Jan. 18, 2001: How did the Constitution count?
Jan. 19, 2001: What rights are in the Constitution?

John Marshall
Jan. 22, 2001: How did John Marshall start judging?
Jan. 23, 2001: Where are courts in the Constitution?
Jan. 24, 2001: How strong was the Supreme Court?
Jan. 25, 2001: Who makes laws unconstitutional?
Jan. 26, 2001: Did politics or the law save Burr?

Korea
Jan. 29, 2001: How did the Korean War start?
Jan. 30, 2001: Who defends democratic South Korea?
Jan. 31, 2001: How does the U.N. fight North Korea?
Feb. 1, 2001: What did the Chinese do in Korea?
Feb. 2, 2001: How did shooting stop in Korea?

Lewis and Clark
Feb. 5, 2001: Who purchased Louisiana land?
Feb. 6, 2001: What did Lewis and Clark pack?
Feb. 7, 2001: Why did Sacajawea join L & C?
Feb. 8, 2001: How did L & C cross the Rockies?
Feb. 9, 2001: When did Lewis and Clark get home?

Henry Clay
Feb. 12, 2001: Where did Henry Clay grow up?
Feb. 13, 2001: Who pushed for the War of 1812?
Feb. 14, 2001: What did Clay compromise in 1820?
Feb. 15, 2001: Why was the Texas Republic annexed?
Feb. 16, 2001: What was Clay's last compromise?

John Brown's rebellion
Feb. 19, 2001: What job did John Brown do?
Feb. 20, 2001: What was Brown's mountain plan?
Feb. 21, 2001: Why did the new Kansas bleed?
Feb. 22, 2001: Why did John Brown take the ferry?
Feb. 23, 2001: How did Robert E. Lee stop John Brown?

Maggie Walker
Feb. 26, 2001: Where did Maggie Walker live?
Feb. 27, 2001: What does a producer do?
Feb. 28, 2001: What could a penny buy in 1902?
Mar. 1, 2001: How can you get free money?
Mar. 2, 2001: Is Maggie Walker's bank still going?

Walt Whitman
March 5, 2001: Where did Walt Whitman grow up?
March 6, 2001: When did Walt Whitman start writing?
March 7, 2001: Did people like Whitman's poetry?
March 8, 2001: What did Whitman do in the war?
March 9, 2001: Who was Walt Whitman's captain?

The Battle of Vicksburg
March 12, 2001: Where was the battle of Vicksburg?
March 13, 2001: Who tried to move the Mississippi?
March 14, 2001: How did Grant attack Mississippi?
March 15, 2001: How was Vicksburg protected?
March 16, 2001: Why did Vicksburg surrender?

The inventors
March 19, 2001: What did Thomas Jefferson invent?
March 20, 2001: What did Cyrus McCormick invent?
March 21, 2001: Who made a better whale harpoon?
March 22, 2001: What did Matthew Maury create?
March 23, 2001: Who discovered Yellow Fever's cause?

The Homestead strike
March 26, 2001: Who was industry? Who was labor?
March 27, 2001: Why did workers join unions?
March 28, 2001: Who broke many American strikes?
March 29, 2001: How does the Homestead strike end?
March 30, 2001: How did Carnegie spend money?

Career resources
April 2, 2001: What are economic resources?
April 3, 2001: What did doctors use in 1901?
April 4, 2001: How did people vacation in 1901?
April 5, 2001: Who enforced the laws long ago?
April 6, 2001: What were teacher resources in 1901?

The Jefferson Lab
April 9, 2001: Would Jefferson drink molecules?
April 10, 2001: What do you do with an atom?
April 11, 2001: And what is inside a neutron?
April 12, 2001: What is acceleration?
April 13, 2001: How do magnets steer electrons?

The weather
April 16, 2001: How does a tornado start?
April 17, 2001: How fast is thunder?
April 18, 2001: Which way do hurricanes spin?
April 19, 2001: How much water makes a flood?
April 20, 2001: Who knows the way wind blows?

Rosa Parks
April 23, 2001: Where did Rosa Parks grow up?
April 24, 2001: How were Alabama buses divided?
April 25, 2001: Who demanded freedom on buses?
April 26, 2001: Who led the Montgomery boycott?
April 27, 2001: Did the Montgomery bus boycott win?

The Chesapeake Bay
April 30, 2001: What does "Chesapeake" mean?
May 1, 2001: Who lives in the bay's watershed?
May 2, 2001: How shallow is the Chesapeake?
May 3, 2001: How does your crustacean grow?
May 4, 2001: How can you save the bay?

Captain John Paul Jones
May 7, 2001: How did John Paul learn to sail?
May 8, 2001: When did John Paul face a mutiny?
May 9, 2001: How did Jones sneak into America?
May 10, 2001: How did John Paul Jones hurt the British?
May 11, 2001: How long did John Paul Jones fight?

Washington, D.C.
May 14, 2001: Why did America need a Federal city?
May 15, 2001: Who mapped out Washington, D.C.?
May 16, 2001: Why is the White House white?
May 17, 2001: Where is the Capitol in the capital?
May 18, 2001: How tall is Washington's monument?

Pearl Harbor
May 21, 2001: Who were isolationists before WWII?
May 22, 2001: Where did the Japanese attack?
May 23, 2001: What happened Dec. 7, 1941?
May 24, 2001: How badly was Pearl Harbor hit?
May 25, 2001: Did the Japanese attack California?

The theater
May 28, 2001: When did colonists start playing?
May 29, 2001: Where was America's first theater?
May 30, 2001: What shows a story's setting?
May 31, 2001: Where did Washington have fun?
June 1, 2001: What were revolutionary lines?

The Battle of Saratoga
June 4, 2001: What began the Battle of Saratoga?
June 5, 2001: Why did Americans leave Ticonderoga?
June 6, 2001: Who won the Battle of Bennington?
June 7, 2001: Where did colonists stop Burgoyne?
June 8, 2001: When did France help America?

Mars
June 11, 2001: What did we think was on Mars?
June 12, 2001: How far is Mars from the Sun?
June 13, 2001: Why did we want to land on Mars?
June 14, 2001: When did Viking I land on Mars?
June 15, 2001: What did Viking I find on Mars?

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