The World on the Turtle's Back is an example of this Native American tribe's creation story.
Who are the Iroquois?
100
Toward the middle of the 1800s, Americans began to expand towards the Pacific Ocean and Mexico because of this idea.
What is manifest destiny?
100
This even shifted writers from Romanticism to Realism.
What is the Civil War?
100
This author, by his real name, is an iconic author from this era.
Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
100
Literary critics say we need this in order to boost us into a new age of literature, into a new era of writing.
What is another world war?
200
This author focused primarily on the realities of life- family, religion and house.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
200
This movement changed the country from largely agrarian to mainly mechanical.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
This man became a public speaker and writer in order to challenge the thought that "his kind" could never be educated.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
200
The last line of this story is:
"When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills."
What is the Story of an Hour?
300
This founding father was accused of being a hypocrite for denouncing slavery but still owning over 600 in his lifetime.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This story was based on the legend of a magician who was said to have sold his soul to the devil for wisdom, power and money.
What is The Devil and Tom Walker?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This man answered the challenge to be the American who would address everyday life with "sufficient plainness, or sufficient profoundness." This man wrote about current events- from the sad plight of slavery to the shocking assassination of Lincoln- during the age of Realism.
300
Don't, like the cat, try to get more out of an experience than there is in it. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not ever sit on a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
Is an example of this term.
What is an epigram?
400
The author of The Crucible.
Who is Arthur Miller?
400
This man was so embarrassed of his ancestors that he changed the spelling of his last name.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
400
This poet devoted herself to poetry, writing late at night by candlelight and would jot down thoughts during household chores in the day.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
400
The name of the plan to readmit Southern states into the union.
What is Reconstruction?
500
The name of the first woman accused of witchcraft. She was originally a slave from Barbados.
Who is Tituba?
500
This poem is made to represent the beat of a heart and send the message of how fleeting life is.
What is The Psalm of Life?
500
This man was fascinated with strange and horrible deaths. He went on a trip to Mexico and was never heard from again.
Who is Ambrose Bierce? Or Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
500
This concept means to "allow to do" and worked with survival of the fittest.