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Archives: Spring, 2004

Thomas Paine
Jan. 12, 2004: Where was Thomas a real Paine?
Jan. 13, 2004: How were Americans split in 1775?
Jan. 14, 2004: What did Paine say in "Common Sense?"
Jan. 15, 2004: DId "Common Sense" convince many?
Jan. 16, 2004  What were Paine's trying times?

Thomas Jefferson
Jan. 19, 2004: Where was Thomas Jefferson Born?
Jan. 20, 2004: How did Jefferson write for rights?
Jan. 21, 2004: How did T.J. serve the new nation?
Jan. 22, 2004: When was Jefferson the U.S. President?
Jan. 23, 2004: What is in Jefferson's second term?

Articles of Confederation
Jan. 26, 2004: When did articles of confederation start?
Jan. 27, 2004: Who ran America's confederation?
Jan. 28, 2004: Did the confederacy coin money?
Jan. 29, 2004: What killed the confederation in 1786?
Jan. 30, 2004: What replaced the confederation?

George Mason
Feb. 2, 2004: What did George Mason write?
Feb. 3, 2004: The Fairfax resolves?
Feb. 4, 2004: What was in Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Feb. 5, 2004: How did Mason add to The Constitution?
Feb. 6, 2004: Who was father of Bill of Rights ?

Noah Webster
Feb. 9, 2004: Who was Noah Webster?
Feb. 10, 2004: Was Webster in the Revolution?
Feb. 11, 2004: What put Webster under a spell?
Feb. 12, 2004: How did Webster sell spelling?
Feb. 13, 2004: When did Webster's dictionary arrive?

Sojourer
Feb. 16, 2004: Who was Sojourner Truth?
Feb. 17, 2004: How did Sojourner win freedom?
Feb. 18, 2004: Did Sojourner find truth in courts?
Feb. 19, 2004: Where did Sojourner travel?
Feb. 20, 2004: How did Sojourner help women?

American diversity
Feb. 23, 2004: What is American diversity?
Feb. 24, 2004: Does America have a diverse menu?
Feb. 25, 2004: What diverse clothing have we worn?
Feb. 26, 2004: What does diversity sound like?
Feb. 27, 2004: What ideas hold diversity together?

Energy
March 1, 2004: What is earth's main energy source?
March 2, 2004: What energy sources are renewable?
March 3, 2004: Where does coal come from?
March 4, 2004: Where do oil and natural gas form?
March 5, 2004: What can nuclear energy do?

Sam Houston
March 8, 2004:   Where did Sam Houston grow up?
March 9, 2004:   Why did Virginians move west?
March 10, 2004: How did Jackson & Houston differ?
March 11, 2004: How does Houston lead the Texans?
March 12, 2004: Who was the 1st president of Texas?

Newport News
March 15, 2004: Was Christopher Newport a pirate?
March 16, 2004: Who did Newport really work for?
March 17, 2004: When did Jamestown colony begin?
March 18, 2004: What did Newport find on the James?
March 19, 2004: How often did Newport News visit Jamestown?

Robert Smalls
March 22, 2004: Where did Robert Smalls sail?
March 23, 2004: How did Smalls escape S.C. slavery?
March 24, 2004: How did Smalls help the union?
March 25, 2004: How did Smalls recruit Soldiers?
March 26, 2004: Where was Smalls in reconstruction?

Stonewall Jackson
March 29, 2004: Who was Thomas J. Jackson?
March 30, 2004: Where did Jackson teach?
March 31, 2004: How did "Stonewall" get his name?
April 1, 2004: What was Stonewall's valley campaign?
April 2, 2004: How did Stonewall Jackson die?

Antietam
April 5, 2004: Why was there a battle at Antietam?
April 6, 2004: What did Stuart tell Lee in Maryland?
April 7, 2004: How did the Battle of Antietam start?
April 8, 2004: Who won Antietam Creek's bridge?

Atlanta
April 12, 2004: Who attacked Atlanta in the Civil War?
April 13, 2004: When did the shelling of Atlanta begin?
April 14, 2004: When did the Union capture Atlanta?
April 15, 2004: Why did Atlanta burn in 1864?
April 16, 2004: Where was "Sherman's march to the sea?"

Coal
April 19, 2004: How did railroading coal help Virginia?
April 20, 2004: Who paid for Virginia's railroads?
April 21, 2004: How did railroads help farming?
April 22, 2004: Where were cigarettes big business?
April 23, 2004: Where did railroads carry textiles?

Economic Scarcity
April 26, 2004: What is Economic Scarcity?
April 27, 2004: What happened to the oyster resource?
April 28, 2004: How scarce is Chesapeake Bay grass?
April 29, 2004: How do humans affect crabs?
April 30, 2004: Does fish scarcity cause specialization?

Franklin D. Roosevelt
May 3, 2004: Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
May 4, 2004: How did Franklin meet Eleanor?
May 5, 2004: What happened after F.D.R. got polio?
May 6, 2004: How did F.D.R fight depression?
May 7, 2004: What did F.D.R do in World War II?

D-day
May 10, 2004: When was the 1st WWII langing in France?
May 11, 2004: Where did the allies practice invasions?
May 12, 2004: Why was D-day launched on June 6, 1944?
May 13, 2004: What happened on the D-day beaches?
May 14, 2004: Who won the battle for Normandy?

Butterflies
May 17, 2004: What is the life cycle of the butterfly?
May 18, 2004: What is a caterpillar's instinct?
May 19, 2004: What is a butterfly chrysalis?
May 20, 2004: What are a butterfly's body parts?
May 21, 2004: How far can butterflies migrate?

Suffrage
May 24, 2004: Who were Virginia's suffragists?
May 25, 2004: How did southerners treat Susan B.?
May 26, 2004: How did Victorians try to behave?
May 27, 2004: When did suffragists get radical?
May 28, 2004: When did women finally get to vote?

WWI
May 31, 2004: What triggered World War I?
June 1, 2004:  Who sank the Lusitania in World War I?
June 2, 2004:  When did tanks roll into World War I?
June 3, 2004:  Why did America join World War I?
June 4, 2004:  How did World War I finally stop?

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