The Civil War
a. The southern states that took part in the Civil War are Texas, Tennesse, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virgina, Washington, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana
b. Who was the US president who proclaimed war against the South?
Ans: Abraham Lincoln.
c. Why was the Civil War fought?
Ans: Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the
United States and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as "the Confederacy." Led by Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy fought against the United States (the Union), which was supported by all twenty free states (where slavery had been abolished) and by five slave states that became known as the border states. In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In response to the Republican victory in that election, seven states declared their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln's incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion.
d. When was the Civil War fought?
Ans: April 12, 1861.
e. What was the outcome of this war?
Ans: The military collapses and the Confederacy dissolves.
f. How does the Civil Rights Movements relate to the novel?
Ans: The author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee once said,
“Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncobs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. This quote sets the tone of the book. To Kill a Mockingbird. It is a book about prejudice and injustice and how man’s ignorance can lead to both. While the landscape has changed somewhat since the 1930’s setting of the novel, the truths it teaches have not.
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