1. To Kill a Mockingbird Background Vocabulary

2. A period of economic misery Answer: Great Depression

3. was supposed to be separate but equal; in reality was separate but unequal Answer: Segregation

4. makes it illegal to discriminate or segregate Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964

5. 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

6. was a result of the South wanting to separate from the North Answer: Civil War

7. was murder with a message Answer: Lynching

8. was a period of economic prosperity Answer: Roaring 20’s

9. abolished slavery Answer: 13 th Amendment

10. guaranteed citizenship to former slaves Answer: 14 th Amendment

11. gave black men the right to vote Answer: 15 th Amendment

12. blamed for the depression Answer: Herbert Hoover

13. made segregation legal Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson

14. Won a Nobel prize for peace for work in civil rights Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

15. Helped end segregation on public transportation Answer: Rosa Parks

16. Name given to the laws and social customs which defined segregation Answer: Jim Crow

17. Introduced civil rights legislation Answer: John Kennedy

18. Supreme Court decision to end segregation in schools Answer: Brown v. Board of Education

19. Pulitzer Prize winning author Answer: Harper Lee

20. President credited with ending the Depression Answer: Franklin Roosevelt

21. got the Federal Government involved in integrating schools Answer: Little Rock Nine