To Kill a Mockingbird Background Vocabulary
A period of economic misery Answer: Great Depression
was supposed to be separate but equal; in reality was separate but unequal Answer: Segregation
makes it illegal to discriminate or segregate Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964
refers to a period in American History; its purpose was to bring the states back together and to establish the status of emancipated blacks Answer: Reconstruction
was a result of the South wanting to separate from the North Answer: Civil War
was murder with a message Answer: Lynching
was a period of economic prosperity Answer: Roaring 20’s
abolished slavery Answer: 13 th Amendment
guaranteed citizenship to former slaves Answer: 14 th Amendment
gave black men the right to vote Answer: 15 th Amendment
blamed for the depression Answer: Herbert Hoover
made segregation legal Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
Won a Nobel prize for peace for work in civil rights Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
Helped end segregation on public transportation Answer: Rosa Parks
Name given to the laws and social customs which defined segregation Answer: Jim Crow
Introduced civil rights legislation Answer: John Kennedy
Supreme Court decision to end segregation in schools Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
Pulitzer Prize winning author Answer: Harper Lee
President credited with ending the Depression Answer: Franklin Roosevelt
got the Federal Government involved in integrating schools Answer: Little Rock Nine