US History from A to Z
First Draft, 12/28/97

This project will be used in CP4 during the Spring Semester, Jan to May, 1998 ... we will be connecting with high school students around the country as we try to build an extensive set of web pages by and for high school school students in US History ... Steve Bergen

1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ... Bay of Pigs ... Berlin Wall ... bill of rights ... boston massacre ... boston tea party ... Brown v. Board of Education ... concord ... constitution ... containment ... court-packing (FDR) ... Cuban Missile Crisis ... democrats ... depression of 1837 ... Dewey Wins! (headline that Truman lost 1948 election....) ... Domino Theory ... dynamic ... Ed Sullivan Show ... Emancipation Proclamation ... england ... Equal Rights Amendment ... Evil Empire (Ronald Reagan's reference to the Soviet Union in the 1980s) ... executive branch ... Fair Deal ... gang labor system ... George Wallace ... great britain ... great depression ... I Have a Dream speech by MLK ... immigreation ... Iron Curtain ... Isolationism ... jamestown ... John Wilkes Booth ... judicial branch ... Kennan, George ... Kennedy Assasination ... king george ... legislative branch ... Letter from Birmingham Jail ... lexington ... Lincoln-Douglas Debates ... Little Rock 9 ... manifest destiny ... Marshall Plan ... mayflower ... McCarthyism ... mexican war ... mormons ... Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) ... My Lai Massacre ... New Deal ... Nixon-Kennedy debate ... NSC-68 ... old north church ... Orval Faubus ... paul revere ... pilgrims ... Plessy v. Ferguson ... plymouth rock ... Prague Spring ... Prohibition ... prohibition ... puritains ... quakers ... Reconstruction ... republicans ... revolutionary war ... shakers ... shay's rebellion ... slavery ... Square Deal ... static ... statue of liberty ... Stonewall Jackson ... suffrage ... supreme court ... taxes ... Tet Offensive ... Tonkin Gulf Resolution ... treaty of paris ... trickle-down economics ... Truman Doctrine ... War on Poverty ... world war 1 ... world war 2

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Stonewall Jackson sucked on a lemon (to avoid scurvey). Did you know that Stonewall was killed by one of his own men? Here's how the story goes: Actually, first a little background on the nickname...(this is from The Civil War Wall Chart) "'Look,' a Confederate officer supposedly cried to his fleeing soldiers, 'there stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians.' While his troops helped turn the tide of the First Battle of Bull Run, 37-year-old General Thomas J. Jackson won his famous nickname. Stern, deeply religious, and somewhat eccentric, Jackson would enjoy immense fame throughout the early years of the war." He was Lee's chief advisor pretty much, and the Confederates suffered greatly after his death. At the battle of Chancellorsville, the Confederates planned a sneak attack on the Yankees. It was dark and frenzied, and one of Jackson's own men mistakenly shot him on the second day of the battle in the arm. He died on May 10, 1863; his last words being "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." Upon hearing the horrible news, General Lee said, "I have lost my right arm."
--Sara Richlin, student at Brookline High School