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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Jacobs |
| Who wrote Madam Bovary | Flaubert |
| Who wrote How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
| Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Who wrote My Antonia | Willa Cather |
| Who wrote War and Peace | Tolstoy |
| Who wrote The Human Condition | Balzac |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Who wrote ”The Village Blacksmith” | Longfellow |
| Who wrote Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| Who wrote The Warden | Trollope |
| Who wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Mariner | Daniel Defoe |
| Who is Isabella Baumfree | Sojourner Truth |
| Who was the most prominent American poet between 1890 and 1910 | Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| What provided legislation under which settlers could purchase 160 acres for $1.25 per acre | The Homestead Act |
| What act allowed owners of escaped slaves to travel into free states to reclaim their “property” | The Fugitive Slave Act |
| What work tells the story of a young woman who escapes her abusive owner and her life in bondage as a fugitive | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| This photojournalist documented living conditions of New York City’s poor | Jacob Riis |
| Who was the police commissioner of New York City during this time | Teddy Roosevelt |
| The two books praised for their profound psychological insight | The Warden and The Mill on the Floss |
| This is the story of a bored, discontented woman who longs for a life of romance and glamour | Madame Bovary |
| This work was considered “trashy,” “vulgar,” and “obscene” at the time of publication | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| To whom was Lincoln referring when he stated, “So this is the little woman that started this big war” | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What type of characters did realistic writers prefer | Ordinary ones |
| Which novel is considered to be the first English novel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Who founded Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| How many students were enrolled in Tuskegee Institute at the time of the founder’s death | 1500 |
| At the time of the founder’s death, how much money was Tuskegee Institute’s endowment | $2 million |
| The Tuskegee Institute advocated what type instruction over academic pursuits for the betterment of African Americans immediately after the Civil War | Vocational |
| About what three subjects did Sojourner Truth speak in support of during her travels | Religion, abolition, feminism |
| What were the cash crops in the South | Tobacco, sugar cane, cotton |
| For what three things did the South depend on the North prior to the Civil War | Manufacturing, financial, commercial services |
| What was the range of the smoothbore musket | 100 yards |
| What was the approximate range of the new rifles some used during the Civil War | Half mile |
| What is the name of the famous photographer who chronicled the Civil War through photographs actually taken on the battlefield | Matthew Brady |
| How many pictures did the famous Civil War war photographer take | 3500 |
| What is the name of the battle which marked the final victory for the Lakota | The Battle of Little Bighorn |
| For what did Southerners fight the Civil War other than to defend the institution of slavery | States’ rights |
| What percentage of the population in the South did slaves account for | 33% |
| What is that total number of actual people | 4 million |
| What did Civil War surgeons often use to sharpen their scalpels | Boot soles |
| What two decades marked the push westward for Americans looking for a better place to settle | 1840s and 1850s |
| What legislation provided for settlers’ purchase of 160 acres provided settlers promised to plant 40 of those acres in trees | Timber Culture Act |
| What is the name of the battle which marked the final defeat of the Lakota Nation | Wounded Knee |
| How many copies of the first edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold out during the first 24 hours | 5,000 |
| What famous American woman’s bravery and dedication to others during the Civil War turned into the largest volunteer organization even today | Clara Barton |
| What is the name of that volunteer organization today | Red Cross |
| What type warfare used by Civil War generals prior to the end of the war foreshadowed its extensive use in World War I | trench |
| What accounted for the large number of casualties in the early days of the Civil War | Generals failed to adapt their tactics |
| Who wrote O, Pioneers | Willa Cather |
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