"Bad Guys"
Race and Resistance
Gender and Rebellion
America and Politics
Promises and Possession
100

Who tried justifying the enslavement of Africans by converting them to Christianity?

who is Cotton Mather?

100

Which national holiday did Frederick Douglass critique as hypocritical?

What is the 4th of July?

100
The term used to describe a woman who is flirty.

What is a Coquette?

100

What key document did Thomas Jefferson help draft?

What is The Declaration of Independence?

100

In The Underground Railroad, what does Cora seek that represents the promise of freedom?

What is the railroad?

200

Who wrote The Selling of Joseph, an antislavery text?

who is Samuel Sewall?

200

Which character relentlessly chases Cora and the other escaped slaves in The Underground Railroad?

Who is Arnold Ridgeway?

200

Which flirtatious character in The Coquette & The Boarding School leads Eliza toward ruin?

Who is Major Sanford?
200

This Native writer and preacher delivered a eulogy for King Philip, which flipped the narrative on settler violence in early America.

Who is William Apess?

200

What symbol of wealth and domestic security does Eliza lose access to?

What is marriage?

300

Who justified the violence against indigenous people in News from New England?

Who is John Underhill?

300

Which enslaved poet wrote tributes to Washington and herself?

Who is Phillis Wheatley?

300

What kind of marriage is idealized in The Coquette & The Boarding School?

What is companionate marriage?

300

How many virtues did Benjamin Franklin list in his work The Art of Virtue?

What is thirteen?

300

What traditional food was praised by Joel Barlow in his poem The Hasty Pudding?

what is Cornmeal Mush?

400

What term is used to describe the faith based ruling elite of early New England?

Who are Puritans?

400

What hiding place does Cora find herself in for months while in North Carolina in The Underground Railroad?

What is an attic?

400

Which characters downfall is a reflection of the harsh judgement that society has on women's independence in The Coquette & The Boarding School?

Who is Eliza?

400

What revolutionary "promises" does Walt Whitman critique the city of Boston for not living up to in his poem Boston Ballad?

What is liberty and equality?

400

In The Underground Railroad, what possession does Cora inherit from her mother that becomes a symbol of hope? 

What is a small sack of seeds?

500

What kind of figure was often labeled as a "bad guy" in colonial sermons?

What is a Heathen?

500

What modern Poet wrote about the execution of the 38 Dakota men?

Who is Layli Long Soldier?

500

What defining mistake is the catalyst to Eliza's downfall in The Coquette & The Boarding School?

What is her pregnancy?

500

What activity do the characters in Sam Shepards, Wildcatting, risk everything for?

What is oil drilling?

500

In Boston Ballad, Whitman compares broken American promises to what kind of decaying structure? 

What is a monument?

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