Slavery has existed since ancient Egypt and involved large plantations in southern states using slaves as workers. Countries like America, England, and Spain bought and sold slaves. During the Civil War, the southern states wanted independence from the USA while slaves wanted freedom, leading to rebellion against slave owners. The war ended slavery and established rights for all. However, Jim Crow laws later imposed segregation and discrimination until the Civil Rights movement fought for equality in the 1950s-60s. To Kill a Mockingbird explores similar themes of racism and injustice.

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2. has been around since Ancient Egypt and possibly even before then Large plantations in the south needed more workers, thus they enslaved more people to help as workers. Countries such as America, England and Spain bought these slaves. 01/22/11

3. Slaves could not gather in-groups of 4 or more. Slaves cannot leave their owners property without a written pass. Slaves could not own weapons. Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write. In To Kill A Mocking Bird, blacks were inferior to the whites. 01/22/11

4. The states are : Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Lousiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida Abraham Lincoln proclaimed war with the south The war was fought between April 1861 and April 1865. 01/22/11

5. The south wanted to break out of the USA, and the slaves from the south wanted to be free, thus they formed a revolution and rebelled against their owners. The Civil War abolished slavery as a legal institution in the United States. In To Kill A Mocking Bird, it shows that everyone should have their own rights, like the Civil War 01/22/11

6. The Jim Crow laws were legal and social restrictions that separated African Americans from white Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The blacks didn't like it because it went against everything they believed in as a race 01/22/11

7. The Civil Rights movement began on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to cooperate with a segregation law. This event sparked what would become a national movement of resistance to racial segregation and discrimination. President John F. Kennedy supported the Civil Rights movement 01/22/11

8. In August 1955, Chicagoan Emmett Hill was visiting his family when he was attacked, and dumped into the river for allegedly whistling at a white woman In 1944, white students expected black students to act like subordinates in Moton high school, where things got out of control and caused a segregation. 01/22/11

9. Fighting for the rights of blacks in transport Blacks had to give up their seats for the whites Nine black teenaged boys accused of rape in Alabama In To Kill A Mocking Bird, Tom Robinson was wrongly accused to raping Mayella 01/22/11

10. Southern Belle Southern Gentleman A young woman of the American Old South’s upper class Good manners and respect 01/22/11 Relation with To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus: Polite and respect towards the elders and Blacks Bob Ewell: Violent, discriminate the Blacks

11. Born on 1926 Got a law degree at the University of Alabama Only wrote To Kill A Mocking Bird Was awarded the pilitzer prize To Kill A Mocking Bird was significant to her because it was the only novel published by her and it was inspired by her childhood friend and neighbour 01/22/11