American Studies (English, History)
Paul Kolecke Periods
5 & 6
December 20, 1996
Jump to History!
OR Literature!
This assignment was to be done as creative
as possible. My solution to the problem of creativity is a WWW page. Eventually,
the page would have been up on the actual Internet for Web browsing, but
for the purpose of finishing in time, it was done onto a 3.5" floppy
drive.
- TEACHERS - 
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TEACHERS -
Mr. Pierros Mr. Ellett
- 1647 - "Of Plymouth Plantation" - William Bradford
- 1733 - "Poor Richard's Almanac" - Benjamin Franklin
- 1754 - Antislavery Essay - John Woolman
- 1771 - Autobiography of Ben Franklin
- 1776 - "Common Sense" - Thomas Paine
- 1819 - "Rip Van Winkle" - Washington Irving
- 1819 - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Washington
Irving
- 1830's - "The Liberator" - William Garrison
- 1830 - "Old Ironsides" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 1841 - "Self Reliance" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 1845 - "The Raven" - Edgar Allen Poe
- 1850 - "The Scarlet Letter" - Daniel Hawthorne
- 1851 - "Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
- 1852 - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 1854 - "Walden" - Henry David Thoreau
- 1855 - "Leaves of Grass" - Walt Whitman
- 1869 - "War and Peace" - Leo Talstoy
- 1876 - "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - Mark Twain
- 1895 - "The Red Badge of Courage" - Crane
- 1911 - "Ethan Frome" - Edith Wharton
- 1962 - "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" - Movie
- Ambrose Bierce
- 1492 - Columbus reaches West Indies
- 1522 - Magellen sails around the world
- 1535 - Cartier explores St. Lawrence River
- 1588 - England defeats Spanish Armada
- 1607 - Jamestown founded
- 1620 - Pilgrims land at Plymouth
- 1718 - French found New Orleans
- 1760 - Beginning of Industrial Revolution
- 1763 - End of French and Indian War
- 1770 - Boston Massacre
- 1775 - Beginning of War for Independence
- 1776 - Declaration of Independence
- 1781 - Articles of Confederation
- 1783 - Treaty of Paris
- 1788 - Ratification of the Constitution
- 1789 - French Revolution
- 1800 - Thomas Jefferson elected President
- 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
- 1804 - Beginning of Lewis and Clark expedition
- 1812 - War of 1812
- 1815 - Napoleon defeated
- 1819 - U.S. acquires Florida
- 1828 - Andrew Jackson elected President
- 1836 - Texas declares Independence
- 1846 - Beginning of Mexican - American War
- 1854 - Republican Party formed
- 1861 -1865 - Civil War
- 1865 -1876 - Reconstruction
- 1865 - Lincoln Assassinated
- 1869 - Completion of Transcontinential RailRoad
- 1873 - Economic depression
- 1877 - Hayes elected President
- 1876 - Custer's Last Stand
- 1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson decision
Source:
Paul Kolecke ( [email protected]
) <effective Jan. 1, 1997> 
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