The novelist
The novel
The Jim Crow Laws
The Great Depression
History of the South
100
The place of Harper Lee's birth
What is Monroeville, Alabama?
100
Time period of the story's setting
What is between 1932 and 1935?
100
The time and place where Jim Crow Laws appeared.
What was during the Recontruction (after the Civil War) in the American South?
100
The nature of the crisis behind Great Depression.
What was an economic crisis?
100
The arrival of the first slaves in America
When was 1619?
200
The date of Lee's birth
What was April 28th, 1926?
200
The story takes place in "the Deep South" : name the corresponding states.
What are Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina?
200
The time when Jim Crow Laws stopped.
What was during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?
200
The Great Depression's start
What was October 24, 1929 (Black Thursday)?
200
The end of the Civil War
When was 1865?
300
Lee's father's profession
What was a lawyer and state legislator?
300
The national event taking place when the book is set.
What was the Great Depression?
300
The origin of the name "Jim Crow"
What was the name of a Black character from a show supposed to mock Black people with a song entitled Jump Jim Crow?
300
The nickname of the slums and shacks where poor people had to live
What was Hoovervilles?
300
The division between the Northern and Southern views on government.
What was federal rights vs. states' rights?
400
Lee's full name
What is Nelle Harper Lee?
400
Harper Lee's expectation for the success of her novel
What is surprise at its popularity?
400
The reason these laws were implemented (created).
What is because of lingering resentment and animosity towards Black people following the Civil War.
The Supreme Court declared the laws constitutional although they infringed Human Rights. (Plessy vs Ferguson in 1896)
400
The name of the economic program created to provide millions of jobs.
What was the New Deal?
400
The organization that started as a racist response after the Civil War.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
500
Harper Lee's childhood as a southerner (3 elements)
What was an agricultural society with tribal instincts (reliance on family and family name), reliance on storytelling and reading for entertainment, little money?
500
Four demonstrations of this book's success
What are very high sales, its successful reimagining as a movie, its translation into dozens of languages, its recognition with a Pulitzer Prize?
500
Explanation of the Jim Crow Laws.
What were laws meant to isolate Blacks and make them inferior to Whites ('Separate but equal')?
500
The causes of the Great Depression (3 elements)
What were the Wall Street stock exchange crash (or Black Tuesday); the panic (banks and investors); people withdrawing money (in their banks) and selling off stock?
500
The economic state of the South after the Civil War
What was broken?