Periods
Ann Bradstreet
Thomas Paine
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Abraham Lincoln
100

What time period is considered Colonial America?

1450's-1700's

100

She was born (Include place and year)

In England in 1612

100

Thomas Paine was born on/in

January 29, 1736, in Thetford, England.

100

When and where was Hawthorne born?

July 4, 1804, in Salem Massachusetts.

100

What war was going on during Lincoln's Presidency?

The Civil War

200

The first colony in America and year of establishment. 

In 1607 the first permanent English colony in the United States was planted at Jamestown in Virginia.

200

She was the first:

 English-speaking poet in North America.

200

At the age of 13, Paine was taken out of school in order to:

Work as a staymaker

200

Hawthorne's family is unique because:

His Great-Great grandfather was a judge in the 1692 Salem Witch trials, executing 20 people.

200

What is Lincoln's most famous speech and when was it given?

The Gettysburg Address, given on November 19, 1863

300

What occurred during the age of reason and revolution?

The United States was rebelling against the King and philosophical writers like John Locke inspired the Founding Fathers with the concept of natural rights that were “God-given”

300

What period was Ann Bradstreet from?

Colonial period

300

What period is Paine from and what is his most famous piece of work?

Reason and Revolution, Common Sense 

300

What's the moral of the story, The Minister's Black Veil?

To look at your own faults and the issues in your heart before passing judgment on another.

300

What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?

To commemorate the lives lost at Gettysburg and to promise freedom to all Americans in remembrance of the battle

400

What authors of Romanticism wrote To Helen and Self Reliance? 

Edger Allen Poe and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

400

How did Ann feel about her writing?

 She believed that men were better writers than her

400

Common Sense encouraged the colonists to 

Break free from the from England and gain independence.

400

What did Young Goodman Brown learn about the people in his community?

They all, in some way, have dealings with the devil.

400

What is the main statement he is making in The Gettysburg Address?

That ALL men are equal and should have access to those rights, slaves included:

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” (Lincoln 1).

500

Romanticism was: 

An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1840.

500

What poem of Ann's is the from:

 "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true"

The Author of Her Book

500

Who served as the influence to Paine moving to America?  

Benjamin Franklin

500

 Hawthorn published some work under...

A pseudonym

500

What other document did Lincoln sign that went in hand with his statements made in The Gettysburg Address and what was it meant to do?

The Emancipation Proclamation. Grant freedom to slaves.

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