Where is the textual evidence in To Kill a Mockingbird that suggests when the novel took place?

The setting in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, Alabama. There is textual evidence in Chapter 1, which alludes to the time period. When Scout is describing the town of Maycomb, she mentions "bony mules hitched to Hoover carts." (Lee 6) Hoover carts were the name given to remnants of old Ford Model T's whose front half had been cut off and top removed. These carts were driven during...

The setting in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, Alabama. There is textual evidence in Chapter 1, which alludes to the time period. When Scout is describing the town of Maycomb, she mentions "bony mules hitched to Hoover carts." (Lee 6) Hoover carts were the name given to remnants of old Ford Model T's whose front half had been cut off and top removed. These carts were driven during the Great Depression because farmers could not afford gasoline to run their vehicles. They chopped their cars and hitched them to mules as a means of transportation. The term Hoover cart is named after the 31st President Herbert Hoover, who was in office during the Great Depression. Many American citizens blamed the economic crisis on President Hoover.

Also found in Chapter 1, Scout mentions that the people of Maycomb had recently been told that it there was "nothing to fear but fear itself." (Lee 6) This comment alludes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, which took place on March 4, 1933. President Roosevelt was addressing how Americans should respond to the Great Depression which plagued the United States from 1929-1939.