Activity 3: Fifty Years’ Worth of Gains.Activity 2: The Difference One Individual Can Make.Activity 1: Nineteenth-Century Women Activists.Activity 2: Advocates for Female Education.Activity 1: The 1840s-How Things Stood for Women.Lesson A: Advocates for Higher Education.HS Unit II: Women's Struggle for Equal Rights, 1825 - 1930.Activity 3: Anthony Burns-Slave-Catchers Come to Boston for the Last Time.Activity 2: Comparing and Contrasting Two Points of View in Newspaper Reports.Activity 1: Analyzing the Fugitive Slave Act.Lesson D: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: A Case Study of Resistance.Activity 2: New Opportunities in Education.Activity 1: Panel Discussion/Debate: Integration v.Lesson C: The Fight for Equal Education, 1800–1855: Two Case Studies of School Desegregation.Activity 1: Interviewing Anti-Slavery Activists.Lesson B: Men and Women, Black and White, Who Made a Difference.Activity 2: Exploring the Mass Moments Website for Answers.Activity 1: Starting With What Students Know.Lesson A: The Struggle for Racial Justice, 1780-1863.
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HS Unit I: Free But Far From Equal: The African American Experience in Massachusetts, 1780–1863.The most significant one was March 11-12, 1888, when upwards of 50 inches dumped in Connecticut and Massachusetts with 40 inches burying New Jersey and New York. How significant of a storm was it? The Blizzard of 1996 ranks just below the Superstorm of 1993 in the list of the biggest U.S. Retailers were already suffering lost sales due to a long stretch of government layoffs and budget uncertainty.Īlong the south shore of Long Island, a 50-year old Casino bar and restaurant in Davis Park was swept into the Atlantic while Gilgo Beach lost 50 to 75 feet of sand. In the nation`s capital, federal and local governments were closed for days, metro-rail transit did not run above ground stations and the storm hit during a tough economic time. The storm caused an 80-car train to derail near Blacksburg, Va., and the heavy weight of all the snow collapsed mobile home roofs. Total losses from the storm are estimated to be $1 billion. The storm caused 60 deaths, with the majority of these fatalities resulting from heart attack victims shoveling snow.
Harrisburg, Pa., received 22.2 inches, which was the city`s second highest snowfall total on record and highest ever for January.Wilmington, Del., got 49 inches, which set Delaware`s greatest 4-day snowfall record.Big Meadows, Va., got 59 inches of snow, which set Virginia`s record for the greatest 2-day snowfall of all-time.Charleston, W.Va., received its second highest snowfall and second greatest snow depth with 19.1 inches recorded.Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va., recorded their all-time highest 24-hour snowfall totals of 22.5 and 22 inches respectively.Philadelphia was blasted with the most snow ever recorded from a single snowstorm, getting 30.7 inches.This eclipsed the former all-time snow depth of 29 inches in February 1978. Boston received 18.2 inches, which produced a snow depth of 30 inches (from existing snow on the ground).Manhattan`s Central Park got 21 inches, the third highest snowfall total for an individual storm.Here are a few snowfall records set during the Blizzard of `96: Wind gusts reached 40 to 60 mph near Cape Cod with 5 to 8 foot snow drifts reported.
A total of 19 to 31 inches of wind-whipped snow that produced 5 to 8 foot snow drifts brought the Interstate 95 corridor from Washington to Boston to a standstill for 5 days. Two to 3 feet pummeled the Mid-Atlantic and New England with localized amounts of 4 feet in western Virginia and West Virginia along Interstate 81. The abundant moisture and slow movement helped produce copious snowfall totals.
One of the top 20 most memorable blizzards wreaked havoc on the East Coast January 6 through January 9, 1996.Ī classic nor`easter developed in the Gulf of Mexico, tracked through the Southeast and then bombed out along the Mid-Atlantic coast. While the East Coast's winter is finally underway following a sputtering start, 26 years ago this weekend, residents were experiencing a historical blizzard.
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