Periods
What time period is considered Colonial America?
1450's-1700's
She was born (Include place and year)
In England in 1612
Thomas Paine was born on/in
January 29, 1736, in Thetford, England.
What period is Edger Allen Poe from?
Romanticism
What war was going on during Lincoln's Presidency?
The Civil War
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.
She was the first:
English-speaking poet in North America.
At the age of 13, Paine was taken out of school in order to:
Work as a staymaker
When and where was Poe born?
January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts.
What is Lincoln's most famous speech and when was it given?
The Gettysburg Address, given on November 19, 1863
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”
What period was Ann Bradstreet from?
Colonial period
What period is Paine from and what is his most famous piece of work?
Reason and Revolution, Common Sense
What is said to be Poe's most famous poem?
The Rave.
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
What authors of Romanticism wrote To Helen and Self Reliance?
Edger Allen Poe and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
How did Ann feel about her writing?
She believed that men were better writers than her
Common Sense encouraged the colonists to
Break free from the from England and gain independence.
What poem of Poe's is this from:
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
To Helen
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).
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.
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
Who served as the influence to Paine moving to America?
Benjamin Franklin
This is an excerpt from what poem?
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
Annabel Lee.
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.