Re: More history from VA

[kber <kber@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Karen

give credit to Jerry about raising the issue on number and the H. R.

my contributions were other

Ken

Karen Canty wrote:

>  Mickey,The history revisionist that I am...So reconstruction happened
> BEFORE 1848 when gold was discovered in California and Westward
> expansion - at least to California - began?  Sorry, I know a lot of
> people believe that California didn't exist before the movie industry
> but there have been people here of all kinds for a long time before
> reconstruction - American Indians, Spanish, Mexicans, Anglos, etc.
> etc. so whose western expansion?  Oh, I guess those people who wanted
> to get out of Virginia??? :)But the funniest is that immigration is
> after the first two - so my husband's Irish relatives who came during
> the famine (1848) were NOT immigrants?  Interesting - I'll have to
> tell him.... And please make sure your son knows (as i'm sure he does)
> that there were 6 million other people who died in the Holocaust...Ken
> already mentioned the absurd idea that the Harlem Renaissance had to
> do only with numbers....A few years ago a friend and I who have
> birthdays really close together treated ourselves to an outing in SF
> to an exhibit re:  The  Harlem Renaissance...it was amazing and they
> didn't mention numbers once.....Karen
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List
>      [mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Mickey VanDerwerker
>
>      Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:43 PM
>      To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
>      Subject: More history from VA
>      My sixth grader brought home his event timeline to memorize
>      today.  I am putting them in the "correct" order as defined
>      by VA so that you history revisionists out there will know
>      the "right" answer.
>      Mickey
>      1.  reconstruction
>      2.  Westward expansion
>      3.  immigration
>      4.  industrialization
>      5.  urbanization
>      6.  spanish american war
>      7.  ww1
>      8. roaring twenties
>      9.  Harlem renaissance (defined as:  the numbers of blacks
>      in america doubled in size)
>      10. prohibition
>      11.  suffrage
>      12.  great depression (my son's note:  women wanted to vote
>      so men got depressed)
>      13.  New Deal
>      14.  WW 2
>      15.  Holocaust (hitler's rule caused the death of 6 million
>      Jews-only jews)
>      16.  The use of nuclear weapons
>      17.  cold war
>      18.  korean war
>      19. civil rights
>      20.  vietnam war
>      21.  collapse of communism
>
>      And that's US History from 1877 to present.  Have a good
>      day.
>      Mickey
>