The North
This was essential to the North during the nineteenth century.
What is commerce?
This was essential to the South during the nineteenth century.
What is cotton?
This is what year the Civil War ended.
What is 1965?
These events helped to transform the West.
What are burgeoning railroads, the growth of mining, and cattle ranching?
Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:
Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
This helped turn northern towns and cities into centers of bustling activity.
What is transportation?
This was considered the "lifeblood" of the South.
What is slavery?
This was the year that Lincoln was elected president.
What is 1860?
What happened to the Native Americans during Western expansion?
Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:
Warren Goss
Warren Goss
This country was a part of the "immigration wave"
What is Ireland or Germany
This crop (excluding cotton) was a major trade export from the South.
What are sugar, rice, and tobacco?
This was the political party that Lincoln represented.
What is the Republican Party?
What major echnological advance came in the 1880s?
What is electricity?
Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
This speech was meant to inspire crowds of tired soldiers to keep fighting.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was the name given to the states that seceded from the United States.
What are The Confederate States of America?
This act promised 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land and tend to it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This rose as an important new medium as a result of the Second Industrial Revolution?
What is advertising?
Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature: Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
This speech freed the slaves in the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
What is The Fugitive Slave Act
This was a result of the industrial boom in the late 19th century.
What are extreme wealth and poverty?
Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature: Mary Chesnut
Mary Chesnut