America: A Contextual Timeline by Rachel Hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod As we read and explore texts throughout the year, I will add the historical events that surround influence our authors and their stories. en-us 2020-09-15 15:44:04 UTC 2025-03-30 22:48:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f2.png 1776 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748387635 The Declaration of Independence: The 13 Colonies severe political connections with Great Britain ]]> 2020-09-15 15:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748387635 1861 - 1865 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748391051 The Civil War (The Union v. The Confederacy) ]]> 2020-09-15 15:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748391051 1863 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748394147 Emancipation Proclamation: the official end of enslaving people of African and Native origin in the United states]]> 2020-09-15 15:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748394147 1892 - 1954 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748410094 Ellis Island: Immigration station for millions of people -- close to 40% of all current US citizens can trace at least one ancestor to Ellis Island]]> 2020-09-15 15:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748410094 1942 - 1945 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748414492 Japanese interment camps are established by President Roosevelt. People of Japanese decent were uprooted from their homes and sent to the camps in California.]]> 2020-09-15 15:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748414492 1941 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748415378 The US enters WW2 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan]]> 2020-09-15 15:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748415378 1830 - 1965 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748448503 "Jim Crow Era":
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern states. This prevented people of color, primarily African-Americans from access to public facilities such as schools, libraries, restaurants, public transportation, etc. ]]> 2020-09-15 15:59:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748448503 1965 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748457537 1. the Voting Rights Act is passed by Congress: This prohibits racial discrimination in voting. In other words, people of color are ensured that they can vote and that their vote is counted.
2. The Vietnam War: Thousands of Marines are sent to Southern Vietnam. 

]]> 2020-09-15 16:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748457537 1964 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748458531 The Civil Rights Act is passed by Congress: African Americans now have equal access to public facilities. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.]]> 2020-09-15 16:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/748458531 1940 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/861944094 Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940), is a famous case now usually known in civil procedure for teaching that res judicata may not bind a subsequent plaintiff who had no opportunity to be represented in the earlier civil action. The facts of the case dealt with a racially restrictive covenant that barred African Americans from purchasing or leasing land in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood (Wikipedia)]]> 2020-10-26 14:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/861944094 Lorrain Hansberry, the playwright and writer, is born in Chicago in May 19, 1930 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1793818189
Many prominent African American social and political leaders visited the Hansberry household during Lorraine’s childhood including sociology professor W.E.B. DuBois, poet Langston Hughes, actor and political activist Paul Robeson, musician Duke Ellington and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens.]]> 2021-10-05 17:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1793818189 1969 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1793869416
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation.]]> 2021-10-05 17:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1793869416 THE DECADE: The 1950s rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1794041637


  • The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States
  • By 1955, half of all American homes had a television, leading to the creation of popular programs such as Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, and Captain Kangaroo

]]> 2021-10-05 18:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1794041637 THE DECADE: 1930s rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820227405 The stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (also known as Black Tuesday) provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented, and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity.

The 1930s in the United States began with an historic low: more than 15 million Americans–fully one-quarter of all wage-earning workers–were unemployed. 

During the Depression, most people did not have much money to spare. However, most people did have radios–and listening to the radio was free. The most popular broadcasts were comedy programs, soap operas and sporting events. Swing music encouraged people to cast aside their troubles and dance. And even though money was tight, people kept on going to the movies. Musicals, “screwball” comedies and hard-boiled gangster pictures likewise offered audiences an escape from the grim realities of life in the 1930s.]]> 2021-10-15 18:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820227405 THE DECADE: 1940s rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820234055
The 1940s tower over every other decade of the 20th century as the most full of sorrow, patriotism, and ultimately, hope and the beginning of a new era of American dominance on the world stage. 

This decade, commonly called "the war years," is synonymous with World War II. This decade left an indelible mark on all but the youngest of Americans that lasted for the rest of their lives. Those who were young and in the military were dubbed "The Greatest Generation" by former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, and the moniker stuck.


Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, and the war dominated Europe from that moment until the Nazis surrendered. The United States was drawn into World War II with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and was then involved in both the European and Pacific theaters until peace came in May 1945 in Europe and August of that year in the Pacific.

]]> 2021-10-15 18:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820234055 THE DECADE: 1960s rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820238252 The Sixties dominated by the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Protests, the 60s also saw the assassinations of US President John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Cuban Missile Crisis, and finally ended on a good note when the first man is landed on the moon.

The Sixties gave birth to a popular culture in film and music that reflected and influenced the decade's social upheavals: the rise of Cold War politics, civil rights movements, student protests, and the Vietnam war all profoundly affected American society and culture.]]> 2021-10-15 18:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1820238252 The Great Depression and Women rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1836888243
Women began to enter the workplace in greater numbers following the Great Depression, when many male breadwinners lost their jobs, forcing women to find “women’s work” in lower paying but more stable careers like housework, teaching and secretarial roles.





]]> 2021-10-22 17:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1836888243 World War II and Women rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1836891447
Women began to enter the workplace in greater numbers During World War II, many women actively participated in the military or found work in industries previously reserved for men, making Rosie the Riveter a feminist icon. Following the civil rights movement, women sought greater participation in the workplace, with equal pay at the forefront of their efforts


The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was among the first efforts to confront this still-relevant issue.

]]> 2021-10-22 17:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1836891447 Chicago Race Riot of 1919 rachel_hoch https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1837203713 The most severe of approximately 25 race riots throughout the U.S. in the “Red Summer” (meaning “bloody”) following World War I; a manifestation of racial frictions intensified by large-scale African American migration to the North, industrial labor competition, overcrowding in urban ghettos, and greater militancy among Black war veterans who had fought “to preserve democracy.”]]> 2021-10-22 20:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachel_hoch/k15wi5jmdhzlqjod/wish/1837203713