History
H.L. Mencken's full name
What is Henry Louis Mencken?
The oft-repeated command in the first paragraph of the speech
What is "Cast down your bucket where you are"?
These people are keenly aware of the differences between their language and the Americans'
Who are the English?
The year in which the Alamo took place
What is 1836?
The age Booker Washington was freed at (MATH)
What is nine?
Because it was seen by some to be too conciliatory towards his predominantly white audience for the reason of his favoring political pragmatism over idealism, Washington's speech was also called this
What is The Atlanta Compromise?
One way in which English usage is better than American
What is intonation?
The year in which H.L. Mencken was born
What is 1880?
The school Booker T. founded in Alabama
What is Tuskegee Institute?
Booker says that blacks freed shall prosper in proportion as they learn to dignify and glorify this thing
What is common labor?
One way in which the American usage is better than the English
What is spelling?
What are 1861, 1865?
One of the newspapers H.L. Mencken was involved with
What are Smart Set, American Mercury?
What Booker means for white people when he says to them to cast down their bucket
What is finding friends and workers among the blacks who were so faithful to them before?
Three of the four spots of difference H.L. Mencken noticed between the English of England and the English of America
What are vocabulary, syntax, shade and habits of idiom, and grammar?
The year in which Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation, and the year in which he gave the Gettysburg Address
What is 1863?
The year H.L. Mencken published The American Language
What is 1919?
DOUBLE:
"We shall constitute one third and more of __________ and _____ of the South, or one-third its _____________ and ________"
What is ignorance and crime, intelligence and progress?
The three immigrant dialects mentioned as having an influence on the American language
What are German, Irish-English, and Yiddish?
The year in which Booker T. Washington gave the Atlanta Exposition Address
What is 1895?