a.Southern States include: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware.

b. Abraham Lincoln was the president that proclaimed war against the South.

c. It abolished slavery as a legal institution in the United States. The one irreconcilable difference between the North and the South during a time when our country was expanding was the introduction of slavery into new territories. In fact, the main prelude to the bloodbath to come was in "Bleeding Kansas" during the late 1850's as people actively killed one another over the question of slavery. It took two additional amendments to the U.S. Constitution and an additional hundred years of civil rights struggle to completely erase the stain of slavery.

d. April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865

e.The North, or Union, won and thus prevented the South, or Confederacy, from establishing itself as an independent republic.

f. It shows the discrimination against the blacks in the past. In the past, the Civil War was fought because of the whites who were against racial equality with the blacks which they thought impossible so they fought against the Union. In TKAM, the jury has arleady made up its mind that Tom Robinson is the rapist when Mayella Ewell accused him of raping when she herself when she was the one that pounced on Tom Robinson. But later she considered it shameful so she accused the innocent Tom Robinson to protect her dignity. The judges were also prejudiced against the blacks so Tom Robinson was convicted of raping.