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The Great Deppresion
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, as it had lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929 -
Dust Bowl
Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat in which with adequate rainfall, had a severe impact -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim crow laws had enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Which were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures. -
The Empire State Building Opens.
The tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building opens in New York City.1,250 feet tall and remains the tallest building -
Franklin Roosevelt is elected president over Herbert Hoover.
Millions of Americans wanted a change, thus Democrat Franklin Roosevelt easily wins the presidential election over Herbert Hoover. this makes the first of four times that Roosevelt will be elected. -
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean.
the 15-hour flight over the Atlantic Ocean was the first solo flight over the Atlantic by a woman. -
School
First day of school for the Logan Kids. Cassie and Little Man(Clayton) refuse to use textbooks because of their conditions and racial discrimination. -
Papa comes back & Mr. Morrison
Papa brings a man home who had been fired from the railroad home with him. Even though Mr Morrison is hiding. Mr Morrison is able to protect the logan family and even finds himself a family in the Logan's. -
Bus Crash
The Logans had Built a pit for the white kid's only school bus to crash in so it won't purposefully splash them. -
Truth or Reality
Cassie wonders about why she is treater the way she is, thus Mama explains racism to Cassie and how White's only think they are better than any other race out there. -
Town of Strawberry
Cassie goes to the town of strawberry and gets pushed around because she is African American and free willed. She does not understand until after why everyone is so disrespectful to her in many ways as Cassie was never taught or experienced this before. -
Casie Stands up for rights
After Cassie had been Pushed around in the town of Strawberry Cassie decides to pretend to fit the slave stereotype to the white people of Strawberry town until she beats Li Lilian up and threatens her will all her secrets that Lillian the bully had told Cassie -
Prohibition comes to an end
Prohibition began was alcohol was banned in the U.S. starting in January 1920. It did little to prevent Americans from drinking and Prohibition ends when the 21st Amendment is ratified on December 5, 1933. -
Telling T.J to go off
Stacy and Logan are tired of the way that TJ had treated them due to this the children tell TJ to back off after having enough of the fact that he was able to manipulate the children and even bully them. -
T.J situation
T.J had begun to hang out with the Wallace Boys and had become a thief. T.J is beaten after breaking into a store and his family is put in danger due to T.J almost getting lynched. -
The Unfair fight for equality
When Mama is treated down as if she wasn't equal in her work T.J complains to the owners of a white store and due to this Momma ends up being fired for standing up for racial rights which just indicates the historical oppression. -
The Big Fight
Papa, Mr. Morrison, and Stacy are ambushed from the Wallace bys as they had been affiliated with T.J. Papa breaks his leg which means that he isn't able to return to the Railroads. Mr. Morrison comes over to confront the Wallace boys in which he is able to send them off. Uncle Hammer comes to a little later in order to give the family money to keep the land by paying off the Taxes which is able to happen because he sold his car. -
Fire in the land.
Papa starts a fire on Logan Land to be able to avoid a lynching of TJ and possibly the Logan's. The Fir is put out but only after destroying up to a quarter of Logan's cotton. -
World War ll begins.
Hitler orders Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Two days later, France and England declare war on Germany, beginning World War II.
