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126 Cards in this Set
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what century was it available that euro-Americans developed the linguistic skills and cultural understanding necessary to translate and transcribe native American creation stories
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middle to late 19th century
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what people was the iroquois composed of
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mohawk, seneca, oneida, onondaga, and cayuga
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what did the six nations of iroquois call themselves
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people of the longhouse
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how many people did the largest towns of the iroquois contained
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two thousand people
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what did Cusick call his work
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a history of the establishment of the Iroquois Confederacy
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who was the first native american to record on his own the founding myths of his people
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David Cusick
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where was david cusick born
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in New York in Madison County
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in 16th century who gave the Navajo their name
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spainish invaders
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who did the Navajo acquired livestock from
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spainish
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what was the most important livestock the navajo acquired
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sheep
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who is the 2nd most populous indigenous group in the united states
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navajo nation
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what is a dominant theme in the navajo creation story
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establishment of harmony and balance among gods, people, and other sentient beings
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has been used to describe a character who is a wandering, bawdy, gluttonous, and obscene figure
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trickster
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what can a trickster also be portrayed as
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culture hero
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the earthmaker in the trickster tales
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Ma'una
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the first son of Ma'una in the trickster tales
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Kununga
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what are among the most ancient elements of Native American cultures
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trickster tales
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around what century were the native American narratives presented their transcriptions and translations in highly literate prose
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end of 19th to middle of 20th century
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lived by hunting large and small game, by fishing, planting corn, squash, and beans, and by gathering wild rice and berries
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Winnebagos
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who began to collecting stories about Winnebagos as early as 1912
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paul radin
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who were the transcription and translations of the Winnebago stories prepared by
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kathleen danker and felix white
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what tribes make up the seven Native nations known most commonly as Sioux
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nakota,dakota, lakota
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until when did the sioux wear eaglefeather war bonnets, bore their lances against enemy warriors, and hunted the buffalo that supplied them with food, lodging tools, implements and weapons
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from the 18th to end of 19th century
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who is consistently portrayed as a powerful enemy of human welfare
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Iktomi
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who is said to have invented language, named the animals, and discovered colors and name is translated as Spider in the trickster tales
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Iktomi
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what type of translation did Deloria provided for the Ikto conquers Iya story
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free translation
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how did toelken first published coyote, skunk, and the prairie dogs translation
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in prose
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who adopted and recorded hugh yellowman's performance of coyote, skunk, and the prairie dogs performance
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barre toelken
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who is one of the most colorful of all the englishmen ever involoved in america proved by his crucial role in the establishment and continuance of the new colony at Jamestown
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Captain John Smith
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what was John Smith at fifteen
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an apprentice to a shopkeeper near his home
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what happened to smith after defeating and beheading a succession of three turkish officers
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was wounded in battle, taking prisoner, and sold into slavery to a turk
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why was smith elected president of the council in virginia
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placed in charge of its supplies in the fall of 1607
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who instead of the puritans named new england in america because of continuing involvement with the region
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John Smith
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what time period did Anne Bradstreet live in
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1612-1672
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what were anne bradstreet's goal
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devoted to her father( god) and to take care of her family
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how many children did Anne Bradstreet have
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8 children but 3 of them died
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what were the two sides of Anne Bradstreet
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puritanism and the society aspect
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what did Anne Bradstreet suffer from
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rheumatic fever and period of severe fatigue
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who was in the first long line of American poets who took their consolation not from theology but from the wondrous works
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Anne Bradstreet
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who brought Anne Bradstreet manuscript of poetry to london and had it printed there
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John Woodbridge
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what were the type of poem by Anne Bradstreet attract present day readers
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intimate ones
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what symbolically marks the passage of Puritanism as the colonists had experienced it
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Cotton Mather's death
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in the 18th century what did many intellectuals now believe in
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the power of the human mind to comprehend the universe especially the law of physics
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who had a major influence in the 18th century on new psychological paradigms that postulated human sympathy as basis for moral life
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John Locke
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what did the sentiment that John Locke came up with encouraged
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the belief that each individual had the power to control his or her spiritual destiny
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what did Virginia planter become rich in during the 18th century
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tobacco
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who made up the great migration during the first half of the 18th century
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dutch and germans
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what increased in the 18th century
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enslaved africans
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why did many native americans communities disappear in the 18th century
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expansion in the Northeast
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what was a distinct possibility in 1750
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colonies to become independent from England
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what were new scientists and philosophers called during the enlightenment era
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deists
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who deduced the existence of a supreme being from the construction of the universe itself rather than from the bible
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diests
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what did Locke come up with to describe the how the mind works
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tabula rasa
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a set of innate ideas of good and evil and that the mind is rather like a blank wax tablet on which experiences are inscribed
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tabula rasa
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during the great awakening who began to rejuvenate the basic tenets of Calvanism
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Edwards
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what dominated the second half of the 18th century
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politics
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what was form on June 7, 1776
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second continental congress
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what were the colonists transformed into through the power of the world
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revolutionaries
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why did Thomas Paine first come to america
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a note from benjamin franklin recommending him to publishers
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when did the first newspaper in the colonies appear
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1704
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what did some writers begin to publish by the late 18th century
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nation's first novels
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to be a community of love, all made equal by their fallen and their shared concern for salvation
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John Winthrop "model" for christian community
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in 1820 who still couldn't vote
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men who didn't own property and women couldn't vote at all
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what began to happen for women in the end of the 18th century
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movement to educate women like men
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who best represents the promise of Enlightment in America
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Franklin
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where was idealism found in
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politics and ethnics
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what year did John Smith published the resulting General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
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1624
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who is the author of two of the most popular books in the 18th century America
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Thomas Paine
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the most persuasive rhetorician of the cause of independence
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Thomas Paine
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son of a quaker father and an anglican mother
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Thomas Paine
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what age did Thomas Paine run away from home at
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19
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what job did Paine find himself completing in Pennsylvania
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journalist
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the first pamphlet published in the colonies to urge immediate independence from Britain
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Common Sense
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where was the second continental congress convened at
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Philadelphia
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where did Paine write his second-most successful work
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England
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what was Paine's second most-successful book
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Rights of Man
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what happened to Paine when he protested the execution of Louis XVI in France
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imprisoned
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who saved Paine from trial in France
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American ambassador Jams Monroe
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Paine's attempt to define his beliefs and was viewed as an attack on Christianity and on conventional society
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The Age of Reason
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what was paine greatest gift as a stylist
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plainness
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what is the meter pattern for the prologue by anne bradstreet
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iambic pentameter
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what is the rhyme scheme for the author to her book by anne bradstreet
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heoric cuplets
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where comma or punctuation is not found in a poem to slow the pace
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enjambment
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where is an enjambment found in the author to her book by anne bradstreet
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line 11
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how did thomas paine publish common sense
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anonymously
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who was thomas paine writing to
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illiterate public
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who built one of the most beautiful plantations in america
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thomas jefferson
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where was jefferson born
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shadwell virginia
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was president of the united states, first secretary of state, minister to france, governore of virginia, and congressman
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thomas jefferson
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who's idea was the draft of the declaration of independence
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thomas jefferson
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how many manuscripts and letters does the library of congress hold written by thomas jefferson
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55000
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author of the declaration of independence
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thomas jefferson
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when were abigail and john adams married
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October 25, 1764
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who was elected vice president for two terms and the second president of the united states in 1796
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john adams
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who grew up in her grandmothers house
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abigail adams
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who was elected as a Massachusetts delegate to the first congress of the colonies in June 1774
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John Adams
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how many letters were passed between the two couples
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more than 300 letters
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who published abagail and john adams letters to each other
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grandson in the middle of 19th century
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who oversaw the daily life of the farm in the adams family
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abagail adams
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what job did Benjamin Franklin do when he was 12
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apprentice for his brother who was a printer
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who published Benjamin's first essay "silence dogood'
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his brother
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who taught himself french, spanish, italian, and latin
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Benjamin Franklin
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who was the sole owner of a successful printing shop and editor and publisher of Pennsylvania Gazette at the age of 24
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Benjamin Franklin
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who founded a library, invented a stove, established a fire company, subscribed to an academy, and served as secretary to the American Philosophical Society before the age of 42
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Benjamin Franklin
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what was Franklin's greatest passion
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science
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what did benjamin Franklin served on when he returned to Philadelphia in May 1775
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a representative on the 2nd continental congress and served on the committee to draft the declaration of independence
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by the time benjamin franklin died in 1790 what was he considered
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one of the most beloved americans
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how many attended Benjamin Franklin funeral
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20 thousand
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who edited all the Franklin text from the writings of Benjamin Franklin
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Albert Smyth
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a black slave, born in Africa and brought to Boston at age 8 in 1761
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Phillis Wheatley
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purchased by a wealthy tailor John Wheatley for his wife Susannah
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Phillis Wheatley
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what was Wheatley taught with education and learned in less than a year
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to read and write and began reading Latin writers
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who were three poets Phillis Wheatley came to know or amired
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Milton, Pope, and Gray
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which poem made Phillis Wheatley famous
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on the death of the Reverend George Whitefield
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what was Phillis Wheatley's reason to go to England
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for health and to seek support for her first book
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what news brought Phillis Wheatley back to Boston
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that Susannah Wheatley was dying
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how did Phillis Wheatley die
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having endured poverty and loss of 2 children
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when was Wheatley's poems rediscovered
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1830s
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what two traditions did Phillis Wheatley launch with the publication of her poems
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black american literary tradition and black women's literary tradition
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what are similarities between navajo creation story and book of genesis
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flood in navajo sent by water guardian and genesis sent by god to erase evil deeds, how first man and women were created in navajo with two corns and genesis god formed man from dust and then women man's ribs, how the earth was in genesis god created earth in 7 day navajo had 5 worlds and sun and moon created by spirtual beings
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in phillis wheatley poem On being brought from Africa to America what connection does she make with die, cain, and refin'd
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dye and sugar cane where brought to America with slaves to be refined as the slaves were to be refined with christainity
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why is christians, negroes, and cain italisized in phillis wheatley's poem on Being brought from Africa to America
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remind whites that christians and negroes are sons of Adam who is father to all and both should be treated equally, negroes are considered children to cain
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why does phillis wheatley refer to herself as an ethopian in To the University of Cambridge, in New England
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to tell the people that they got their religious works from her old world in Egypt
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why does phillis wheatley italisize Jesus, egyptian in To the University of Cambridge, in New England
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believes the salvation of Jesus freed the egyptian slaves of pagan nature and whites are not acting like good christian because are treating the slaves badly
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what is the meter pattern in To the University of Cambridge, in New England by Phillis Wheatley
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blank verse
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is a meter pattern the follows iambic pentameter but has no rhyming end
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blank verse
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