Vocabulary
Authors
The Civil War
100
This is a reporter or writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports on social issues.
What is Muckraker?
100
This is the author of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is Mark Twain?
100
Laws that kept African Americans segregated, and lynch mobs kept them in fear.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
200
This is a literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vice.
What is Satire?
200
This is a american author and humorist that goes by the writhing name Mark Twain.
What is Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
200
Site of the first battle in the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
This is a philosophy that believes ultimate nature of reality is based on the mind.
What is Idealism?
300
He was one of the most influential black leaders of the first half of the 20th Century and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University.
What is William Edward Burghardt Du Bois?
300
Wave of immigrants from Europe and China mirgrated to America.
What is Urbanization?
400
This is a person who studies natural history.
What is Naturalist?
400
He is a novelist and critic that wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
What is William Dean Howells?
400
This is when children were working long hours for small wages in dangerous work environments.
What is Progressive Era?
500
This is an inclination toward literal truth.
What is Realism?
500
This was an American political leader, educator, and author.
What is Booker T Washington?
500
this is when the south decided to break away from America because of their dislike towards the way the government ran the country.
What is Secession?
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