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  • Largest Native American nation in the US

- In Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico

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Navajo Indians

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  • In central New York State
  • tribes of the league: Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga
  • self governing bodies
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Iroquois

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  • Contributed to banning the slave trade
  • kidnapped and sold to British
  • crammed on the bottom of the ship
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Olaudah Equiano

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  • adventurer, poet, mapmaker, egotist
  • founded Jamestown
  • captured by pirates
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John smith

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  • led pilgrims to Massachusetts

- governed or pilgrims

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William Bradford

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  • Christian
  • pastor
  • tried to show the worst in his preaching
  • went to college at 13 years old-Yale
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John Edwards

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  • printer

- lightning rod, bifocals, stove

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Benjamin Franklin

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  • University of Virginia
  • decimal system
  • violinist
  • house of burgesses
  • signed Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson

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  • Common sense
  • in army
  • wrote about soldier struggles
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Thomas Paine

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  • Studied law

- published magazines

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Washington Irving

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  • poet, teacher, editor
  • lost his two wives
  • fireside poet
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Henry Wadsworth

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  • journalist
  • fireside poet
  • defended human and women’s rights
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William Cullen Bryant

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  • Literature and medicine
  • went to Harvard
  • fireside poet
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • Fireside poet
  • Death of three kids
  • wrote about abolition of slaveryI
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James Russell Lowell

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  • Fireside poet
  • Quaker
  • Christian
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John Greenleaf Whittier

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  • Transcendent philosophy

- lived in cabin

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Henry David Thoreau

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  • went to Harvard
  • minister, writer
  • death of wife
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sky chief rips up tree. Wife falls into ocean. Animals look for woman. Earth was made on the turtles back, the wife gave birth to a child.

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The earth on turtles back

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Chief of the sky spirits didn’t like his home so he carved a hole in the sky -Mount Shasta. He pointed and made trees and rivers. He threw the stick, and made animals; biggest = grizzly bear

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When grizzlies walked upright

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Tells about the experience on the ship to America. People jumped off the ship, were caught and killed by the British

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Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudan Equiano

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Interesting narrative of the life Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano

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The struggles of not having food when they arrived. John Smith was captured, and held for ransom. They became friends and he married Pocahontas.

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General history of Virginia

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General history of Virginia

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Voyage on the mayflower from England to America.

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Of Plymouth Plantation

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Of Plymouth plantation
William Bradford
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The astronauts journey to space and the details that were encountered
Though right stuff
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The right stuff
Tom Wolfe
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A sermon preached to the Puritans to frighten them. To show they will be judged by God and that it will be painful and scary.
Sinners in the hands of an angry God
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Sinners in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan Edwards
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Written by himself. Shows ways he tries to live by every day, and his daily routine
The autobiography
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The autobiography
Ben Franklin
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Gives a list of philosophies he lives by, and hits close to home with him
Poor Richards almanac
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Poor Richards almanac
Ben Franklin
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Written to King George the III about all the problems being had, and how they should be addressed, and changed
Declaration of Independence
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Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
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The conditions of Washington's army, and how they aren't succeeding, while they get through this, they'll grow
The crisis
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The crisis
Thomas Paine
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Ill gotten wealth reshaped a German folk tale about a man who sells his soul to the devil
The Devil and Tom Walker
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The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
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Universe is divided into two-the soul and nature/fulfills an individuals needs/explains beauty of nature
Nature
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Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shows the need for individuals to avoid conformity in false consistency: follow yourself
Self-reliance
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Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Shows changes of Walden, and his time alone in the shack. He spent his time there for 18 months to regain his Christianity and life back.
Walden
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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How the government should be switched around, and needs to be run differently
Civil disobedience
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Civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
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Live life for today because of little time.
A Psalm of life
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A Psalm of life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Don't fear death. Nature soothes pain. Death is beautiful
Thanatopsis
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Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant
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Ship is decommissions/what the ship has been through/ship should be destroyed
Old Ironside
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Old Ironside
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Snow covers whole world/like a grave/snow hides pain of death. Kisses daughter but is meant for the dead one
The first snowfall
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The first snowfall
James Russell Lowell
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Beauty and harm of nature/how everyone is affected by storm/talk about nostalgic stories/nonews of storm
Snowbound
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Snowbound
John Greenleaf Whittier

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