"In the dark night-time, he calls us to him, and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood with him on the scaffold yonder! And in the deep forest, where only the old trees can hear, and the strip of sky see it, he talks with thee, sitting on a heap of moss! And he kisses my forehead, too, that the little brook would hardly wash it off! But here in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he, with is hand always over his heart!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"I don't take no stock in dead people."
Huckleberry Finn
Helen Keller, Story of My Life
What was the economic multiplier of the 19th century
Railroads
"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?"
Story of My Life
"You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything."
Anne Sullivan
Confession and repentance for sins.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Teddy Roosevelt
fiend
Who is Roger Chillingworth
"One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk
"Cast down your bucket where you are."
Booker T. Washington
1. The right to vote
2. Civic Equality
3. The education of youth according to ability
WEB Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk
A war over events in Cuba around the turn of the 20th century.
Spanish-American War
Rosebush
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"Under softest touch hides treacherous claws."
"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking--thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell."
Huckleberry Finn
Pilgrimage; unlikely friendship.
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Leader of the Radical Republicans.
Thaddeus Stevens
giant
Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
"It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself."
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
"Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!"
Hester Prynne
Reconciliation; compromise; proving one's worth through hard work.
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
17th amendment established
The direct election of senators by the people and not by state legislatures
"trash"
(Hint: part of an important quote)
Worth 1000 points.
Jim from Huckleberry Finn
"Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on dehead er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed."