To Kill A Mockingbird Geography

Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmospheres. Foster would classify To Kill a Mockingbird under geography. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. Alabama was one of the eleven states to succeed the union in 1861. Because the Confederacy lost the war, Alabama was forced back into the union. Alabama faced many hardships during the Reconstruction Era, the era that took place in the South after the civil war. To make matters worse, the whole country faced economic hardships during the Great Depression. Many of the Southern Whites blamed their problems on the African-Americans. Southerners blamed African-Americans because they could not use them as slaves on their plantations