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Archives, Spring 2003


Albany Plan
Jan. 6, 2003: Why did the Iroquois league begin?
Jan. 7, 2003: How did the Iroquois League work?
Jan. 8, 2003: What Iroquois ideas did colonists like?
Jan. 9, 2003: What was Franklin's Albany plan?
Jan. 10, 2003: Why did the Albany plan fail?

Types of Government
Jan. 13, 2003:  What does government do?
Jan. 14, 2003:  Why is Dictatorship a bad government?
Jan. 15, 2003:  Who runs an Aristocracy?
Jan. 16, 2003:  What is Socialist government?
Jan. 17, 2003:  What is Representative Democracy?

John Locke
Jan. 20, 2003:  Who was English thinker John Locke?
Jan. 21, 2003:  What are Locke's rights in nature?
Jan. 22, 2003:  Why do governments get started?
Jan. 23, 2003:  Is anyone above Locke's laws?
Jan. 24, 2003:  What Locke ideas are in the declaration?

Paul Revere
Jan. 27, 2003:  Where did patriot Paul Revere live?
Jan. 28, 2003:  Why did Bostonians fight Redcoats?
Jan. 29, 2003:  How well did Paul Revere ride?
Jan. 30, 2003:  Who saw two lanterns Boston?
Jan. 31, 2003:  Who wins Lexington and Concord?

The Ohio River
Feb. 3, 2003:  How long is the Ohio River?
Feb. 4, 2003:  Who fights to settle the Ohio Valley?
Feb. 5, 2003:  What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Feb. 6, 2003:  When are Ohio Indians finally defeated?
Feb. 7, 2003:  What was the Northwest Ordinance?

Richard Byrd
Feb. 10, 2003:  Who was Admiral Richard Byrd?
Feb. 11, 2003:  How did this Byrd learn to fly?
Feb. 12, 2003:  Who flew over the North Pole 1st?
Feb, 13, 2003:  Who followed Charles Lindbergh?
Feb, 14, 2003:  Who built a base at the South Pole?

John Tyler
Feb. 17, 2003: Where was John Tyler born in 1790?
Feb. 18, 2003: How well does tyler do in politics?
Feb. 19, 2003:  How did Tyler become president?
Feb. 20, 2003:  Did Tyler try to annex Texas?
Feb. 21, 2003: How does Tyler leave the White House?

Dred Scott
Feb. 24, 2003: Where was Dred Scott a slave?
Feb. 25, 2003: Did Missouri courts free D. Scott?
Feb. 26, 2003: Did federal courts help Dred Scott?
Feb. 27, 2003: How was Dred Scott's case debated?
Feb. 28, 2003: Dred Scott's case stop civil war?

Frederick Douglass
March 3, 2003: Where did Frederick Douglass live?
March 4, 2003: How did Douglass steal his ABC's?
March 5, 2003: How did Frederick Douglass escape?
March 6, 2003: How did Douglass help abolitionists?
March 7, 2003: What did douglass tell Abe Lincoln?

The Oregon Trail
March 10, 2003: Where did the Oregon Trail start?
March 11, 2003: Why did people walk the Oregon Trail?
March 12, 2003: How fast did wagons go to Oregon?
March 13, 2003: When did the Oregon Trail get bad?
March 14, 2003: When did Oregon become a state?

The California Gold Rush
March 17, 2003: When was California's Gold Rush?
March 18, 2003: How did people rush to the gold?
March 19, 2003: How did the 49er's look for gold?
March 20, 2003: How did the Chinese mine for gold?
March 21, 2003: What happened after rush hour?

The Secession
March 24, 2003: How did South's Secession the begin?
March 25, 2003: What were the 1st confederate states?
March 26, 2003: Which southern states tried peace?
March 27, 2003: Why was Fort Sumter important in 1861?
March 28, 2003: Which way did Western Virginia go?

A Tale of Two Presidents
March 31, 2003: Kid Rock.
April 1, 2003: Into Politics.
April 2, 2003: Clouds of war.
April 3, 2003: Civil Warriors
April 4, 2003: The End

End of the Civil War
April 7, 2003:   How did the Civil War finish?
April 8, 2003:   Who got pinned in Pettersburg?
April 9, 2003:   When did Richmond finally fall?
April 10, 2003: Where did R.E. Lee surrender?
April 11, 2003: How was Jefferson Davis caught?

Mark Twain
April 14, 2003:   Did Mark Twain help Tom Sawyer?
April 15, 2003:   What was Twain's life on the Mississippi?
April 16, 2003:   Who raced the celebrated frog?
April 17, 2003:   What did Twain call the Gilded Age?
April 18, 2003:   Who was a Connecticut Yankee in court?

The Spanish-American War
April 21, 2003:   Why would Americans fight Spain?
April 22, 2003:   Who were the "Yellow Journalists?
April 23, 2003:   Why do we remember the Main?
April 24, 2003:   Who won the conflict in Cuba?
April 25, 2003:   How did America take the Philippines?

Interstate highways
April 28, 2003: What where roads like in 1903?
April 29, 2003: Who is first to drive across America?
April 30, 2003: What road went coast-to-coast 1st?
May 1, 2003:   Did hamburgers always have toys?
May 2, 2003:   When did interstates connect states?

Patrick Henry
May 5, 2003:  Who was Henry the Menace?
May 6, 2003:  Who fought the King's Stamp Tax?
May 7, 2003:  How did Henry menace King George?
May 8, 2003:  Who was Virginia's 1st elected governor?
May 9, 2003:  Why did Henry menace the constitution?

The Great Depression
May 12, 2003:  What was America's Great Depression?
May 13, 2003:  How did Hoover treat his depression?
May 14, 2003:  Where was America's dust bowl?
May 15, 2003:  What was Roosevelt's "New Deal"?
May 16, 2003:  What finally ended the Depression?

World War II
May 19, 2003:  Who did the WWII island hop?
May 20, 2003:  Why did the U.S. hop islands in WWII?
May 21, 2003:  Who returned to the Philippines?
May 22, 2003:  Why were Iwo & Okinawa vital?
May 23, 2003:  Why did Harry Truman drop the bomb?

Thurgood Marshall
May 26, 2003:  Where did Thurgood Marshall live?
May 27, 2003:  Where did Marshall fight schools?
May 28, 2003:  What did 'Brown vs. Board' decide?
May 29, 2003:  Who was the 1st Black on the S. Court?
May 30, 2003:  What did Marshall say in court?

Sally Ride
June 2, 2003:  How high and far did Sally ride?
June 3, 2003:  How did Ride prepare for space?
June 4, 2003: What did Ride do on her 1st mission?
June 5, 2003: What happened on Ride's 2nd mission?
June 6, 2003: How did Ride help relaunch shuttles?

Grab Bag
June 9, 2003:  Where is Hampton roads exactly?
June 10, 2003: Why is Virginia a "Commonwealth" and not a state?
June 11, 2003: When did Delaware begin?
June 12, 2003: Who were Morgan's Raider's?
June 13, 2003: Was Big Bethel 1st ?

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