Summary and Analysis of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, History
ISBN: 9781504044875
Publisher: Worth Books
Published: 2017-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Timeline

1584: Richard Hakluyt publishes “Discourse on Western Planting.”

1620: The Mayflower lands on Cape Cod.

1638: First slave cargo arrives in Boston.

1663: Charter for Carolina colony is granted.

1669: Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, written by John Locke, who never set foot on America soil, is adopted.

1676: Bacon’s Rebellion launched against Governor Berkeley in Virginia.

1677–79: Culpeper’s Rebellion rises in North Carolina.

1700: Slaves compose 50% of southern Carolina’s population.

1712: Carolina colony divided into North and South Carolina.

1732: Georgia parceled out of Carolina territory.

1741: Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard’s Almanack, which focused on the perils of idleness.

1740: Slaves compose 72% of South Carolina’s population.

1743: Oglethorpe, who wanted a slave-free colony, leaves Georgia.

1750: Georgia legalizes slave ownership.

1751: Benjamin Franklin elected to Pennsylvania Assembly, opens Philadelphia Hospital, and publishes “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind.”

1776: Jefferson removes law requiring poor vagrants to wear identification badges.

1776: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense; Virginia constitution gives adult white men of at least 21 years with 25 acres of cultivated land the right to vote.

1786: Shays’ Rebellion takes place in western Massachusetts.

1803: Thomas Jefferson negotiates the Louisiana Purchase, effectively doubling the size of the United States.

1818: General Jackson invades Florida, starting the Seminole War.

1827: David Crockett elected to the House of Representatives.

1841: Log Cabin Bill passed, giving squatters a chance to purchase land they had settled for a reduced price.

1845: Texas annexed by the United States, adding 250 million acres of land to the country.

1848: United States invades Mexico, acquiring huge swaths of the west where slavery would not be allowed.

1855: Hinton Rowan Helper publishes Land of the Gold.

1857: Helper publishes The Impending Crisis of the South.

1861–65: The North and South fight in the American Civil War.

1865: Freedman’s Bureau established to extend assistance to the poor (whites and freed men alike) after the Civil War.

1904: Charles Davenport establishes the Eugenics Record Office on Long Island.

1924: Racial Integrity Act of 1924 passed in Virginia, prohibiting miscegenation.

1927: In Buck v. Bell, the Supreme Court decides that states have the power to pass sterilization laws.

1929: Stock market crash marks the beginning of the Great Depression.

1934: US government officially closes the western frontier.

1935: FDR creates the Resettlement Administration by executive order.

1936: Howard Odum publishes Southern Regions of the United States, used as a resource for New Deal planning.

1957: Trying to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Elizabeth Eckford is blocked by the Arkansas National Guard.

1963: JFK assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.

1971: NYC approves its first trailer park.

1985: Carolyn Chute’s The Beans of Egypt, Maine published.

1993: Cincinnati anti-discrimination ordinance makes hillbillies a protected class.

1998: Bill Clinton is impeached for his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

2008: John McCain selects Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate.

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