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This American author of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of the US government's involvement in war with Mexico and condoning slavery
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
Poet who wrote "Leaves of Grass", which Ralph Waldo Emerson called "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed"
Who was Walt Whitman?
Town that Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott called home
What was Concord, MA?
11th President of the United States
Who was James Knox Polk?
This is the term that describes the type of warfare carried out by the Seminoles in the Second Seminole War
What is guerilla warfare?
She supported her family using the money made on her novel "Little Women" among other writings
Who was Louisa May Alcott?
He was known as the "sage of Concord" for making that Massachusetts town the center of American literary culture in the 1850s
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Who was George Ticknor?
His nickname was Old Hickory
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This writer said "A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard"
Who was Herman Melville?
This descendant of a Salem Witch Trials judge may have drawn on his family history when writing "The Scarlett Letter"
Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Famous short story character created by Washington Irving who fell asleep for 20 years and missed the American Revolution
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
State that Herman Melville, Washington Irving, and James Fennimore Cooper were all from
What was New York?
The two presidential candidates tied in the election of 1800
Who were Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr?
Harvard student who lost sight in his left eye by a flying crust of bread but still went on to write historically accurate and exciting stories
Who was William Prescott?
This American poet was well-known to 19th century American students, whose poems about American historical figures, including Hiawatha and Paul Revere, were widely read
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This country gentleman began his successful writing career of popular stories about frontier heroes and sea adventures after being appalled at the low quality of a British novel he had been reading.
Who was James Fennimore Cooper?
Length of time it took to build the Erie Canal
What was 8 years (1817-1825)?
In this year, three men held the title of US President
What was 1841?
Cooperstown, NY, which was founded by the family of James Fennimore Cooper is now famous for this
What is the baseball hall of Fame?
Lawyer and Abolitionist who wrote a memoir of his time at sea called Two Years Before the Mast.
Who was Richard Henry Dana?
The length of time it took John James Audubon to engrave and print his masterpiece Birds of America
What was 11 years?
What was Worcester vs Georgia (1832)?
Theodore Roosevelt officially changed its name in 1901
What is the White House?
Event at which "Hail to the Chief" was first officially played
What was the swearing in ceremony for Monroe's second term?