To Kill a Mockingbird Background Presentations
US History & Culture Related to the Novel

The United States of America – A Historic Overview 1829-1865  

Be sure to cover the following topics in your own words:

  • Andrew Jackson
  • Westward Expansion
    • Mexican American War
    • Gold Rush
  • US Civil War
    • Fort Sumter
    • Confederacy
    • Jefferson Davis
    • Robert E. Lee
    • The Union
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Ulysses S. Grant
    • Gettysburg
    • Sherman's March to the Sea
    • Appomattox

Laurie Miller
Email:llmiller@gmu.edu
Last Update: October 2010


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