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Flashcards by fbradstreet, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by fbradstreet
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| Question | Answer |
| William Cullen Bryant | Newspaper editor, world traveler and poet "The Prairies" |
| James Fenimore Cooper | First successful American novelist "The Last of the Mohicans" |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Descendant of Salem Witch Trial judge, employed in Boston Custom House "The Scarlet Letter" "Young Goodman Brown" |
| Washington Irving | First American author to gain an international literary reputation "Rip Van Winkle" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Orphaned young, attended West Point, edited literary journals, married a cousin "The Raven" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Tell Tale Heart" |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | America's first world-class best-selling author, sold millions of copies "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
| Hester Prynne | Angel of Mercy (Scarlett Letter) |
| Arthur Dimmesdale | Guilt-ridden adulterer (The Scarlett Letter) |
| Pearl | An "elf-child" to some (The Scarlett Letter) |
| Chillingworth | Tries to poison a minister (The Scarlett Letter) |
| Faith | Tries to save her husband (by sacrificing herself to the devil but her husband's faith isn't strong enough for him to understand so it fails) (Young Goodman Brown) |
| Goodman Brown | Easily fooled by the Devil (convinced that everyone worships him and that there is no good in the world, only evil) (Young Goodman Brown) |
| Rip Van Winkle | Sleeps for twenty years (Rip Van Winkle) |
| Ichabod Crane | Teacher who believes in spooks and loves food (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
| Brom Bones | Practical joker and horseman (pretends to be the Headless Horseman and throws a pumpkin at Crane, pretending it to be the Horseman's head) (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
| Katrina Van Tassel | Flirts with a teacher (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
| Roderick Usher | Yellow-haired hypochondriac (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| Madeline Usher | Buried alive (The Fall of the House of Usher) |
| Uncle Tom | A man who refuses to sin (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
| Eva St. Clare | Tom's young friend and fellow "saint" (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
| Simon Legree | Evil slave-owner (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
| Cooper's Protagonist | Natty Bumppo |
| The Scarlett Letter | Supposedly true first story written by someone else |
| Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Both supposedly written by someone else (Dietrich Knickerbocker) |
| Poe's Raven | Sits on a bust of Pallas (Athena) |
| 1823 | The Monroe Doctrine |
| 1825 | Erie Canal opened |
| 1827 | Baltimore and Ohio (First railroad) |
| 1834 | "The Liberator" (anti-slavery newspaper) |
| 1838 | Underground Railroad |
| 1844 | Telegraph invented |
| 1845 | Texas joins the U.S. |
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