Turning Point In American History

Throughout history there have been many important events that are historical. Some that were good and others that were bad. Some of these events are things such as The Great Depression, The Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam war.

The Great Depression was a huge turning point in American history. The Great Depression started on October 29, 1929 and ended in 1941. It was a time period when our economy had a major stock market crash. This stock market crash later became known as Black Tuesday. Was caused by the over expansion in industries and increase in the prices which later lead to the decrease of prices. Therefore industries started closing, and workers were being laid off. During this time period Herbert Hoover was the president, from 1923-1933. He didn't do anything to help with the Great Depression because he
This was a time period when African Americans were fighting the the same rights that whites had. Some of these rights were things such as having the same level of education, using the same bathrooms, using the same water fountains, and being allowed into the same buildings. The fight for Civil Rights or equal rights first started with a boy named Emmett Till. It was said that he had spoken to a woman or whistled at her as she walked out of a store. The women told her husband that this happened and he and another man went to the house he was staying at and horrifically harmed him and then killed him. But the Spark of the Civil Rights Movement happened with a girl named Rosa Parks. Back in the day the Americans were allowed to sit anywhere they wanted on busses and African Americans were to sit in the back or in the middle if an American didnt want to sit there. One day an American man aborted the bus and asked her to move. So she moved on seat over. The man still refused to sit next to her, so she was kicked off the bus. This then lead to protest which caused the Civil Rights