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Explore the historical context of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" during the Great Depression. Learn about the causes and effects of the Depression, the Tom Robinson trial, and the racial tensions of the time.

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  1. Bell Work • Take out your Study Guide answers. Make sure your name is on the top and you have identified the Chapters and question numbers. • Take out your Vocab. Monster #1. • Take out a piece of paper and number from 1 to 35. Do not skip lines. Put an MLA heading on it and title it Chap. 1-7 Quiz.

  2. An Introduction to “To Kill a Mockingbird” By Harper Lee

  3. Visual Time LineOpen your notebook and draw a “timeline” from a landscape perspective.

  4. The Author Nelle Harper Lee born in 1926

  5. Author’s place of birth: Monroeville, Alabama --population 7,000

  6. Population of Cave Creek/Carefree • Cave Creek = 5,476 • Carefree = 3,724 9,200

  7. Crash of the Stock Market, 1929

  8. Pictures of bread lines, like this one, are among the most enduring and poignant images of the Great Depression. Great Depression 1929 -1939

  9. What is a Depression ? An economy with high unemployment, falling income, failing business, and declines in production and sales. In other words…a “broken” economy that needs to be fixed!

  10. The Current U.S. Economy • Americans have been living beyond their means, buying too often on credit • Foreign competition, a decrease in the production of goods, and corporate bailouts have led to economic problems in the U.S. • This led to high unemployment, rising prices, and inflation and the recession during the Bush administration in 2007-8

  11. But less than 85 years ago, events were much worse…

  12. The Great Depression • An economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.

  13. Causes for the Great Depression • Risky Investments False Prosperity in the 1920’s led to: • Oct. 1929 Stock Market Crash • Banking Crisis - Most uninsured - Money runs • Trade Collapse

  14. Effects of the Depression on the Common Citizen • Unemployment - At the height of the depression, 3 out of 10 Americans were jobless. • Poverty - Millions homeless, hungry, penniless • Injustices committed by the powerful against the powerless • - Unfair pay, working conditions • - Increased racial tensions

  15. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place from 1933 to 1935, during the Great Depression. The story is set in Maycomb, a fictional city in southern Alabama.

  16. Trial of Walter LettMarch, 1934 • Accused of raping white woman • Has alibi for time of rape • Found guilty/sentenced to execution • Citizens of Monroe County object • Sentence changed to life imprisonment • Lett dies of TB in 1937

  17. Semi-autobiographicaldetails • Scout Finch/Harper Lee, author • Atticus Finch/A.C. Lee – Harper Lee’s attorney father • Maycomb/Monroeville • Tom Robinson trial/William Lett trial • Dill was childhood friend Truman Capote who became a famous writer.

  18. World War II, 1939-1945

  19. Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

  20. Martin Luther King Jr. Montgomery,Alabama 1959

  21. To Kill A Mockingbird, published 1960

  22. Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court 2013 • For example, mere hours after the high court ruling, Texas implemented a strict photo ID law, which had previously been rejected under Section 5. That summer, the North Carolina legislature passed a sweeping law that also instituted a stringent photo ID requirement, eliminated same-day registration, and cut back on early voting. • All of these laws respond to phantom complaints of voter fraud, and all disproportionately hurt the ability of minorities to vote. In October 2014, a federal judge found 600,000 registered Texas voters do not have acceptable ID. Testimony showed African-American and Hispanic registered voters are two to four times more likely than white registered voters to lack photo ID. In North Carolina, data showed African Americans used early voting and same-day registration at much higher rates than whites. • Overall, since the 2010 election, 21 states have imposed new voting restrictions. In 2016, 15 states will have more strict rules than they did in 2012. The storm of discriminatory changes forecast by Ginsburg has apparently come to pass. • Many of these measures have been aggressively challenged under the remaining sections of the Voting Rights Act. Two major cases are pending in Texas and North Carolina, where attorneys laid out strong evidence showing how these laws prevent citizens from voting, and disproportionately discriminate against blacks and Hispanics.

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