timeline project 1

By brianna.yanniello
  • Jan 1, 1360

    renaissance

    renaissance
    1. "Rebirth" 1360-1600 2.mostly nuclear
    2. small homes and few material things
    3. boys got married at 14, girls at 12.

  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    1. children as young as 6 years old worked in factories http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html 2.families are less important

  • Slavery

    Slavery
    1. Families wereoften separated. 2.1/2 of all slaves were under the age of 16. 3.marrage has no legal standing.
    2. Masters might allow partners to have children so they could have free slaves.

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    1. 1/5 white men fighting died. families were torn apart 2.many black slaves fleed to the Union Army 3.women started being i the public eye more
    2. More than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
    http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Family_Life_During_the_Civil_War

  • Women’s Right to Vote

    Women’s Right to Vote
    1. campaigns began in earnest during the 1820s and 30s, 2.took a stronger force when blacks were granted rights in the 15th amed.
    2. August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified
    3. the devorce rate went up in this time period.
    http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    1. family income dropped 40%
    2. many children were deprived of an education because many communities had to close their schools down because of a lack of money
    3. teenagers would feel ashamed and leave home to find their own job and home. 4.some wemon would work if the father could not find a job.
    http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/depression.htm

  • World War II

    World War II
    1. At school children learn what to doif they were attacked and how to put on a gas mask 2.men left for war spliting up families.
    2. mothers and older daughters went to work in factories. 4.There was rationing of food, clothes and other goods
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/children_at_war/

  • Current Time

    Current Time
    1. single mothers have increased, and now same sex families
    2. women are as much in public view as men 3.children go to school through 12th grade. 4.more generations live with eachother