The 1930s and To Kill a Mockingbird Timeline Project

Use the links below to find at least 10 events from the 1930s. Create your timeline on a poster using
the following questions and guidelines.
1. Arrange the events in chronological order.
2. What happened when? Hypothesize whether one event could have influenced another.
3. Differentiate between social and political events by using two different text colors.
4. Describe each event with a minimum of three sentences.
5. Label each event with a date. (Preferably with the month and year)

Once you have selected events and put them onto the timeline on your poster, you may do one or
more of the following: (directly underneath an identified event)
1. Crete an illustration or include an image that represents the event.
2. Collect textual evidence from TKAM that suggests a character or any event in the novel was
influenced by this particular event.
3. Include an event from any decade that followed or current event that can be compared to the
event directly above.

Links:
Separate but Equal http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/separate-but-equal.html
The Great Depression http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression
Jim Crow laws http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow
The Dust Bowl http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_02.html
The 1930s http://www.history.com/topics/1930s
Womens Role https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression/essays/women-and-great-
depression
Scottsboro Boys" Trials http://famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys
Prejudice
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwi
i/race/
Market Crash http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/74
The New Deal https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Deal
FDR https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/franklindroosevelt
WWII http://cds.library.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/NewTimeline.html
WWII http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_war_production.htm
Prohibition http://www.repealday.org/
The 1930s era https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/sets/72157614238464621/

Find timeline examples on the following website:

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/59487
However, be sure to transfer any digital timeline you create onto a physical poster and to include
the additional details underneath each event as required.