1. To Kill A Mockingbird - Setting Study
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln grew up working on farms with his father. At the time the Lincoln family did not have money for the children to go to school. Abraham was very interested in education and bettering himself. He would barrowed books from his ne...
Wheat and other grains grew on farms in Pennsylvania and New York. ... The main feature was the plantation, a large plot of land that contained a great many acres of farmland and buildings in which lived the people who owned the land and the people who worked the land. ...
During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and paid really high prices for wheat and other grains. The federal government had told farmers to buy more land, to modernize their methods with the latest in farm technology, and to produce more food. ... The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. ...