Ambrose Bierce
The well-to-do planter who was captured and put in a noose by the Union army on the Owl Creek Bridge.
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
The Captain, in the poem, "O Captain, My Captain"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first and only confederate president who was ousted at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Douglass's teacher who drew the ire of her husband by teaching Douglass to read.
Who was his slave master's wife?
The President of the U.S. who was the last person that the lady saw walking toward the "end of the road".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the real-life battle and the fictional short story where the boy finds his farm burning and his mother dead after "playing" with wounded soldiers.
What is "Chickamauga"?
The name of Whitman's book of poetry, which he revised multiple times, throughout his life.
What is Leaves of Grass?
The President of the Union who signed the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The influence of this, according to Douglass, "[T]urned the tender hearts [to] stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tigerlike fierceness."
What is slavery?
This was the twist ending of the story.
What is the fact that everyone is dead?
The story where a horseman and his horse went over a cliff by the horseman's son in the civil war short story.
What is "A Horseman in the Sky"?
The poem which celebrates everyday American people, doing their work, thus creating a "song".
What is "I Hear America Singing"?
The city was accidentally burned down by the people who lived there, according to the text.
How did the union army take over Richmond, Virginia?
The conductor of the underground railroad, who led to thousands of slaves escaping the south.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The man who said, "I guess you could say that I am the last casualty of the Civil War" to the woman.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is what the boy thought the wounded soldiers were, due to their pale appearances and blood stained faces and clothes.
What were clowns?
Whitman wrote about America, the importance of self and the celebration of Independence.
What are some of the themes Whitman explored in his poetry?
This is what the confederate White House was turned into after the union army took over Richmond.
What was Union headquarters?
The eloquent speaker whom Tubman called, "the most famous of the escaped slaves."
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This is the way the woman in the story died, according to her husband.
What was a fever?
The crime that Peyton Farquhar was arrested for in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
What was conspiring to blow up the bridge?
This is what Whitman did while serving during the Civil War.
What is a nurse?
This is what Lincoln did in Richmond that was incredibly dangerous, according to the text, "No American President before or since had placed himself at that much risk".
What is Lincoln walking around without guard or protection?
The person who was called Moses for leading the slaves to freedom, though the person was never seen and only stories were told.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This was the thing that made the woman recognize her husband as he was walking toward the house.
What is the song that the guitar player and then the husband were singing?