Famous People in FA
This man jotted down ideas for a poem (that later was used to create a famous patriotic American song) when he saw the flag still aloft after the attack on Ft.McHenry.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This is the fifth musical group added to the original four created by Sachs and Hornbostel and starts with a vowel.
What is electrophones?
This is the age of our female protagonist of the novel, Chains.
What is 13?
The smallest particles that make up matter.
What are atoms.
Before 1772, this consisted of an alliance between five independent nations that shared a related language.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
These two guys were managers of the Old American Company and were anxious about unrest and an unruly audience.
Who are Hallam and Hodgkinson?
What is The Federal Overture?
This author began her career as a freelance writer for a newspaper while also writing novels for young adults and children. She authored Chains among other great titles.
Who is Laurie Halse Anderson?
A group of atoms held together by a bond.
What is a molecule?
This act, in 1765, taxed legal documents, magazines, playing cards, etc., and had to be paid in British currency, not colonial paper money.
What is the Stamp Act?
He became sought after for his life-like portraits. He created a famous portrait of Paul Revere showing him in a more natural state.
Who is John Singleton Copley?
This system of training artists was replaced by the first fine arts academies during the age of Enlightenment.
What is the guild system?
The Enlightenment was a period during the 1700s to about 1850. It was a time of scientific acheivements, exploration, and political changes. It is also commonly know as, "The Age of ....".
What is Reason?
In this type of bond, electrons are transferred from one atom to another.
What is an ionic bond?
These two power struggles shaped events in North America before the American Revolution.
What are the Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War.
The man created My Days Have Been So Wonderous and Free. He was a lawyer and a judge and an accomplished musician composing songs for harpischord and piano forte.
Who is Francis Hopkinson?
This man, also an accomplished artist, opened the first natural history museum in American in 1786.
Charles Wilson Peale
In literature, THIS is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document, monograph or section thereof. There is one at the beginning of each chapter of Chains.
What is an epigraph?
His atomic theory remains a landmark contribution to science.
Who is John Dalton?
On Sept. 5, 1774, delegates from all but one colony gather to draft a declaration of colonial rights and sent copies to London. They decided to reconvene in a year if their grievances were not addressed.
What is the Continental Congress?
This artist sculpted and studied in Rome with a community of artists. Her first major work is called Forever Free.
Who is Edmonia Lewis?
This art style was considered the second-generation school of landscaping.
What is Ohio River Valley style?
This is an excerpt from a short story we read in the guilde. "I did not care to go out of sight of the boat, fearing the coming of canoes with savages down the river; but the boy seeing a low place about a mile up the country, rambled to it.... but the great joy that poor Xury came with to tell me he had found...."
What is Robinson Crusoe (Slavery and Escape) by Daniel Defoe?
These two concepts demonstrate how gases move at high speeds.
What are effusion and diffusion?
The Declaration of Independence, signed on July 4th, 1776, contained five sections with a preamble that contains two of the most famous sentences written in the English language. The first sentence is....
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.