Writer and Literatur

Question 1

Thomas Hariot

Answer 1

Colonial Period 1

A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Question 2

John Smith

Answer 2

Colonial Period 1

Generell Historie of Virginia

Question 3

William Bradford?

Answer 3

Colonial Period 1

History of Plymouth Plantation

Question 4

Samuel Sewall

Answer 4

Colonial Period 1

Diary

Question 5

Cotton Mather

Answer 5

Colonial Period 1

Magnalia Christi Americana

Question 6

William Penn

Answer 6

Colonial Period 2

Letter to the Free Society of Traders

Question 7

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 7

Colonial Period 2

Poor Richard’s Almanack

utilitarian writing

Question 8

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 8

Colonial Period 2

Poems - Before the Birth of One of Her Children

first attempt on fiction

Question 9

Susanne H. Rowson

Answer 9

Revolutionary Period

Charlotte Temple

Question 10

Lydia Maria Child

Answer 10

Revolutionary Period

Hobomok

Puritan Settlement in Plymouth from Native perspective

Question 11

Catherine Maria Sedgwick

Answer 11

Revolutionary Period

Hope Leslie

Pequot War from Native Perspective

Question 12

Washington Irving

Answer 12

Revolutionary Period

Rip van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 13

David Walkers

Answer 13

African American History 1619 to 1850

Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles

Question 14

Frederick Douglass

Answer 14

African American History 1619 to 1850

The North Star (black journal)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Question 15

William Llyod Garrison

Answer 15

Civil War

The Liberator

abolitionist

Question 16

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 16

Civil War

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

anti-slave novel

Question 17

Phillis Wheatly

Answer 17

African American History 1619 to 1850

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Question 18

Harriet Jacobs

Answer 18

African American History 1619 to 1850

Incidents in the Life of A Slave-Girl

Question 19

Harriet Wilson

Answer 19

African American History 1619 to 1850

Our Nig

Question 20

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 20

Roaring 20s

The Great Gatsby

Question 21

Theodore Dreiser

Answer 21

Roaring 20s

An American Tragedy

Question 22

John Steinbeck

Answer 22

Great Depression

Grapes of Wrath

Question 23

John Dos Passos

Answer 23

Great Depression

U.S.A.

Question 24

Booker T. Washington

Answer 24

African American History 1850 to 1940

Up From Slavery

Question 25

William E.B. DuBois

Answer 25

African American History 1850 to 1940 The Souls of Black Folk

Question 26

Ida Wells-Barnett

Answer 26

African American History 1850 to 1940 The Red Record

Question 27

Alain Locke

Answer 27

African American History 1850 to 1940 The New Negro

Question 28

Jean Toomer

Answer 28

African American History 1850 to 1940 Cane

Question 29

Nella Larson

Answer 29

African American History 1850 to 1940 Quicksand Passing

Question 30

Langston Hughes

Answer 30

African American History 1850 to 1940 Harlem

Question 31

Zora Neal Hurston

Answer 31

African American History 1850 to 1940 Their Eyes Were Watching God

Question 32

Thomas Paine

Answer 32

War of Independence Common Sense

Question 33

Alice Walker

Answer 33

1980s The Color Purple