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82 Cards in this Set
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the foremost poet of the confederacy.
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timrod.
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uncle remus stories.
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written by joel chandler harris.
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cable and chopin both wrote about this state.
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louisiana.
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georgian who wrote tobacco road and God's little acre.
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caldwell.
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the derogatory name twain gave to this time period showing the emphasis on "cheap cynicism and gaudy materialism".
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the gilded age.
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a midnight ride on the mississippi.
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painted by currier and ives.
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"the luck of roaring camp".
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harte.
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the jolly flatboatmen in port.
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painted by bingham.
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a ride for liberty -- the fugitive slaves.
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painted by johnson.
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leader of the nez perce indians.
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chief joseph.
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editor of the brooklyn daily eagle.
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whitman.
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"leaves of grass" (not popular).
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whitman.
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quaker family.
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whitman.
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worked in war hospitals in dc.
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whitman.
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"drum taps".
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whitman.
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"passage to india".
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whitman.
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wrote autobiographies : specimen days and november boughs.
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whitman.
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poet of democracy.
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whitman.
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father of free verse.
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whitman.
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"o captain, my captain".
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whitman.
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"when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom".
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whitman.
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song of myself.
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whitman.
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when i heard the learn'd astronomer.
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whitman.
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a noiseless, patient spider.
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whitman.
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beat! beat! drums!
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whitman.
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published the "north star".
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douglass.
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gettysburg address.
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lincoln.
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superintendent of the us military academy in west pointe.
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lee.
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letter to son.
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lee.
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college named after lee.
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washington and lee college.
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born in charleston, *SOUTH CAROLINA*
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timrod.
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enlisted in the confed army and served only a year because of illness.
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timrod.
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war correspondent.
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timrod.
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editor of a newspaper in *SOUTH CAORLINA*
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timrod.
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the silence of english verse.
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lanier.
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"the symphony".
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lanier.
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hymns to the marshes.
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lanier.
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"song of the chattahoochee".
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lanier.
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song of the chatt. was written about these two counties.
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habersham and hall.
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born in MISSOURI
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twian.
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born 1835 and died 1910; halley's comment appered both years and he predicted that he would die that year.
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twain.
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wrote the innocents abroad.
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twain.
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roughing it.
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twain.
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the adventures of tom sawyer.
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twian.
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life on the mississippi.
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twian.
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a ct yankee in king authur's court.
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twain.
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pudd'nhead wilson.
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twian.
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the prince and the pauper.
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twian.
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"the man that corrupted hadlyburg"
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twian.
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the mysterious stranger.
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twain.
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editor of overland monthly (ca's best magazine.)
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harte.
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the luck of roaring camp.
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harte.
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appointed to counselor post in germany.
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harte.
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walked into mexico and disappered.
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bierce.
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successful career in san fran as a journalist.
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bierce.
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the devil's dictionary.
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bierce.
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1st african american to earn a phd.
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du bois.
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founder of niagara movement and NAACP.
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du bois.
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the souls of black folk.
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du bois.
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felt racism was the crisis of the 20th century.
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du bois.
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last year of life he moved to africa and became a citizen of ghana.
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du bois.
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the song of the smoke.
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du bois.
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"i am the smoke king."
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du bois.
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caused the frog not to jump.
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led pellets.
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spoke before lincoln in the gettysburg address.
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everett.
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the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county.
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twian.
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frog's name.
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dan'l webster.
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mr bixby.
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twain.
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sketches of maine.
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jewett.
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outcasts.
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hearte.
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gettysburg address has how many lines.
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10 lines.
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born slave and escaped.
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douglass.
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my bondage and my freedom.
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douglass.
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illinois legisiature.
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lincoln.
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led troop that ran down brown's raid.
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lee.
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"laureat of the confed."- poet of the confed.
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timrod.
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flower.
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laurel.
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played flute pro.
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lanier.
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captured by unions.
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lanier.
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the world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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lincoln.
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steamboat pilot.
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twain.
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the innocents abroad.
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twian.
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