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15 Cards in this Set
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the most prominent African American speaker for the abolition of slavery. His abolitionist newspaper was “The North Star”
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Frederick Douglass
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wrote the first American dictionary
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Noah Webster
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wrote “ The Raven” and “ The Tell-Tale Heart.” Famous for his scary, creepy, tales.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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wrote “ Rip Van Winkle” and “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
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Washington Irving
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Transcendentalist, believed in civil disobedience (like Dr. King and Ghandi...non-violent resistance to unfair laws), wrote “ Walden”
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Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist, wrote “ The Scarlet Letter.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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wrote “Moby Dick.”
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Herman Melville
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Upton Sinclair, a famous muckraker, wrote ___________________ -a story about rats in sausage.
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"The Jungle"
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wrote “The Great Gatsby” about the empty lives of the wealthy during the materialistic days of the 1920’s.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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wrote “The Sun Also Rises”, “A Farewell to Arms”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, and “The Old Man and the Sea”.
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Ernest Hemingway
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written by John Steinbeck about struggle of the Okies as they left the Great Plains, escaping the Dust Bowl, to leave for a better life in California.
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The Grapes of Wrath
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wrote and gave a Farewell Address where he urged Americans to not form political parties and to not develop entangling alliances.
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George Washington
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famous abolitionist/opposed slavery. Published “The Liberator” and was a co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Famous writer from Montgomery, AL, flapper during the 20s, married to the author of "The Great Gatsby"
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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Wrote the poem "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - from Sonnets of the Portuguese
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Emily Dickinson
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