Background TKaM 1
- Created by: Qiao-Chu
- Created on: 17-03-13 17:01
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- Background to To Kill a Mockingbird
- Slave Trade
- Brought millions of Africans to work in America
- Brought in slave ships and suffered terrible conditions
- Slaves had no rights, brought by the wealthy whites, then forced to work
- Couldn't leave jobs or decide for themselves
- Wasn't abolished until 1865, idea that blacks were inferior continued
- Civil War
- Between the Northern United States and the 11 Southern States called the Confederate States of America
- Violent and bloody - 620000 soldiers died
- Main cause was disagreement over slavery
- Attitudes to black people took time to change
- In Maycomb black people did not have equal rights - weren't entitled to education and can only get poorly paid jobs
- Ku Klux Klan
- Formed in 1860s by group of men who fought for the South
- Believed whites were superior to everyone else
- Attacked and killed black Americans, and Northern Americans
- Early 1920s estimated 4 million members
- Slave Trade
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