TKAM Webquest - 6th period by Sunnie Gulliver https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre en-us 2016-09-09 00:29:03 UTC 2026-02-16 21:24:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/122631576 2016-09-09 02:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/122631576 Great Depression https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377362078 Black Tuesday, which happened on October 29, 1929, was what started off the Great Depression. The Great Depression started when stock market prices dropped significantly over a 4-day period. This was known as the famous Stock Market Crash. Because of this, many people were unemployed and had a hard time trying to find new jobs, so they decided to switch to farming to survive. But also, the Midwestern and Southern plains were going through a drought, the Dust Bowl, at the time, and all the land was dry, and strong winds caused dust storms. Because of the Dust Bowl, many farmers and their employees decided to move to California, where there was good farmland. The Great Depression ended in 1939. World War ll marked the end of the Great Depression, giving people new jobs due to advancements in technology. When Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president, he helped the country recover from the Great Depression.

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]]> 2019-08-27 04:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377362078 Scottsboro Boys https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363350 On March 25, 1931, a group of teenagers got into a fight on a train to Alabama. It was between the whites and blacks, and the whites captured nine blacks who are now known as the Scottsboro Boys. After they were captured, two of the white teenage girls tried to accuse them of rape. Soon, a trial took place. Since the trial was held in Alabama, and because they were black teenagers, neither the judge or the press stood on their side. Due to the inadequacy of their two attorneys’ statements, eight of the nine teenage blacks were sentenced to death penalties. 

]]> 2019-08-27 04:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363350 Harper Lee https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363390 Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama as the youngest child. While her dad was a lawyer and a former newspaper editor, her mother suffered from mental illness. In her early life, she often stepped up to protect her best friend. Later, Harper Lee studied law at the University of Alabama. Before her studies made her stop, Lee was the editor of the school’s magazine, Rammer Jammer. This experience probably helped her become a better writer. When Lee moved to New York, she met the Browns, a couple that made it possible for Lee to write full-time and finally publish To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. Later it was made into a movie at 1962. She even received the presidential medal of freedom by her “outstanding contribution to America’s literary tradition” at a ceremony at the White House presented by the former president George W. Bush. We predict that the character’s personality and background will be similar to the author’s. Knowing the history of Harper Lee will influence us as we read.

Yu-Yu, Yaya, and Abigail]]> 2019-08-27 04:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363390 Jim Crow Laws The Jim Crow laws were laws that segregated mostly black people from the South apart from the whites. They were forced to separate, it denied the Blacks to not go to places where white people didn’t want them to be. During that time, negros were also terrorized by anti-black groups such as the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). The Jim Crow laws also segregated the Blacks from using the same things as the Whites at the same time. Things and places such as trains, water fountains, theater. Additionally, black people were also not allowed to vote, basically meaning complete white control over southern blacks. Throughout the years of black people fighting for their civil rights, people have tried several ways to escape and move away to a different place, where the Jim Crow law can’t be enforced. For example, Isaiah Montegemory starting an all-black community at Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1887. In 1964, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act that ended the Jim Crow Laws. kimn23 https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363531 Nathan Kim, Louis Shih, Max Eliang]]> 2019-08-27 04:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gullivers1/il1pwoykmwre/wish/377363531