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In 1917 the Smith-Hughes Act was passed. That meant we are able to learn about AG in our classes in school.

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FFA was established.

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New Farmers of America was formed, also known as the NFA.

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FFA and NFA merge together to make one.

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Pisgah FFA was established.

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National FFA Alumni Association founded (supporters of FFA; not all had to be in FFA)

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Females were admitted into FFA.

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In the late 1980s the FFa organization charged the name from the Future Farmers of America to National FFA organization. This was because they didn't want everyone to think that it was all about agriculture, there is a lot more to FFA then just agriculture.

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¨Corn Clubs¨ were introduced this same time and what this was, a team of boys would get together and they would have to grow one acre of corn and whatever team grew the best corn would win. This was at a state level.

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At the National Livestock Judging Contest during the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City, MO, 33 delegates from 18 different states met at the Hotel Baltimore to establish the Future Farmers of America.

Leslie Applegate was from NJ, and he was elected the 1st national President of FFA.

Henry Groseclose was elected executive secretary-treasurer.

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The 1st national meeting of the NFA was held in 1935 at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

The National Organization was founded right after the NFV (Virginia) was founded in 1927 by Prof. George Washington Owens. The reason this was established was because all the segregation was happening so this was made for African Americans.

NC´s NFA was originally formed at NC A&T during the 1926-1927 school year, with 26 chapters and 741 members.

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The civil rights act was signed into law, and the FFA national board of direcors approved membership on FFA effective July 1, 1965 open to all agriculture member regarless of race, color, or national origin.

All NFA symbols were archived and NFA students were to be assimilater into FFa traditions and events.

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In 1999 the FFA National Convention was moved to Louisville, Kentucky.

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In 2006 the FFA National Convention was moved again to Indianapolis, Indiana.

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In 2012-2013 there were 22,300 new members in the FFA.

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in 2024 they held the 97th FFA Nation Convention.

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The things that were very popular during this era were jazz and dancing.

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During this time everyone was trying to lighten everything up because during this time was the Great Depression, so there was a lot of jazz music still and now swing music.

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The most popular movie in the 1940s was ¨Ball of Fire¨ this was released in 1941 and the movie was a Comedy/Romance.

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it was very popular in this time for there to be a lot of male song writers, there was very few female song writers.

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In the 1960s one of the popular shows in this time was ¨The Andy Griffith Show¨ which i think its cool because it is still kinda popular around this time.

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in the 1970s time, the most comfortable shoe was the Slim Sneaker Silhouettes. The reason these were the most popular was because there wasn't that must research about comfort and support.

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One of the most popular cars in the 1980s in kids was the Ford Mustang GT.

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During this time some of the more popular hairstyles were:

Pixie cut

Butterfly clips

Space buns

The Rachel

Crimped hair

Chunky highlights

Pigtails

Scrunchies

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Here are some of the popular clothing brands in the early 2000s:

Ed Hardy

True Religion

Tommy Hilfiger

Juicy Conture

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In the 2010s a popular movie series was ¨How to Train a Dragon¨ it was very popular for kids during this time.

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In today's day, one of the most popular song writers is Taylor Swift and there are a lot of people who like her but there is also a lot of people who don't like her.

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Turkish War of Independence. This happened May 19th, 1919- July 24th, 1923. It was a lot of military campaigns and a revolution waged by the Turkish National Movement. This was after World War 1.

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The world event that was going on at this time was the Great Depression. This was caused by the stock market crash, so it was a worldwide economic problem.

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The big event that was big in that time was World War 2. The reason it was so big was that the women had to go into the workforce and all the men were drafted to war.

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The main war that was going on now was the Korean War. During this war, there were around 30,000 American solders killed and millions of Korean solders killed.

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One of the biggest things in history happened at this time. This was the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He was fighting for black rights.

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The one I pick for this time is the Cold War. This was a disagreement between the Capitalist West and the Communist East.

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This event was the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thousands of people from West and East Germany gathered together and in 3 days, they made the Berlin Wall crumble.

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There was this thing called the Women's World Cup and this was where all the national teams of women's soccer would come and play.

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This was a big thing but really only to the US but it could have impacted the rest of the world in many ways. Barack Obama was elected President, he showed that no matter where you stood you can achieve anything.

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This event is not supported by a lot of people but it was the one that would cover the whole world and this is same-sex marriages. This was a big thing and it still is today but there is very few people who support it.

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At the beginning of 2020, there was a worldwide pandemic and it was COVID-19. This did cause a lot of scares in the world some people are still scared.