Name that Writer
She wrote Ain't I a Woman.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
Stephen Crane used the words, War is Kind, and this technique to clearly illustrate his message.
What was verbal irony or oxymoron?
This was the costliest event in U.S. history.
What was the Civil War?
This is a term given to one who defends slavery.
What is an apologist?
This was the nickname given to the journalists who made their careers out of exposing unscrupulous practices among business people and corrupt political officials.
What was muckrakers?
These two writers explored the darker aspects of the Civil War and portrayed bravery and heroism as myths.
Who were Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane?
The readers must figure this out in order to understand "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
What is the order/sequence of events?
Which Act granted 160 acres of land in the western territories to anyone who would live there for five years?
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
This led runaway slaves to the free states in the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This was based on the refinement of the ideas behind Realism and the theories of the French novelist, Emile' Zola.
What was Realism?
He wrote An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
This is the selection we read that has this for a theme: War makes men cruel and indifferent to personal life.
What is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
This was the Act passed by congress in 1830 that gave the president of the United States the power to require that all native peoples east of the Mississippi move west.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This is what William Lloud Garrison, John Russwurm, and Samuel Cormish all had in common.
What is they all published antislavery literature?
Between 1880 and 1900, this is the number of immigrants who came to the U.S. from Europe.
What was nine million?
This writer was extraordinary because he learned to read and write mostly by tricking the white children into teaching him.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Sojourner Truth is comparing herself to this group of people in this passage - "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place!"
Who/What are white women?
This was where the last of the Indian Wars took place, in which more than 200 unarmed Sioux were massacred.
Where was Wounded Knee, South Dakota?
This combined music, poetic text, and religious images.
What were spirituals/negro spirituals?
This was one of the greatest writers of the period who chronicled the lives of wealthy Americans living abroad.
Who was Henry James?
He satirized the unscrupulous industrialists in a novel entitled The Gilded Age.
Who was Mark Twain?
When Truth refers to Eve and to Christ in her speech, she is using this literary technique.
What is allusion?
Who organized a revolt in 1831 that led to the death of over 160 people?
Who was Nat Turner?
On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began the Civil War by firing on this.
What is Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor?
He was known as the great champion of Realism.
Who was William Dean Howells?