To Kill a Mockingbird
Historical background
Instructions: Read through the following questions.
Answer them tentatively (in pencil) if you can.
Check and improve your answers as you watch the presentation.
What was the “Slave
Triangle”?
How many slaves were there
in the US in 1860?
What were the main crops
cultivated by slaves?
Which were the Confederate
States in the American Civil
War?
What were the Jim Crow
laws?
Who were the Ku Klux
Klan?
Why are the Scottsboro Boys
relevant to To Kill a
Mockingbird?
What was the Great
Depression?