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Civil War era
Civil War era authors, stories, quotations, and laws
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isabella Baumfree, American abolitionist, women's rights activist | Sojourner Truth |
| Author Uncle Tom's Cabin, abolitionist, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| First American author accepted abroad, romanticist, | Stephen Crane |
| The Great Negro Educator, orator, philanthropist, First African American to be invited to the White House | Booker T. Washington |
| artist, After The Hurricane Bahamas, Rowing Home | Winslow Homer |
| was the "Gentle Bushranger", like Robin Hood | Mathew Brady |
| Assassinated Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| First shots of the Civil War were fired here | Ft. Sumter |
| Confederate victory, Beauregard, first battle that people watched from a distance and had picnics | Bull Run |
| Turning point of the war, Union victory | Gettysburg, Battle of |
| written by Lincoln dedicating grounds to fallen soldiers, "government of the people, by the people, for the people" | Gettysburg Address |
| location where the Civil War officially ended | Appomattox Court House |
| theater Lincoln was in when assassinated | Ford's Theater |
| play Lincoln was watching when assassinated | Our American Cousin |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Stephen Crane | Red Badge of Courage |
| made it against the law to keep or hide slaves | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Freed slaves over which the Union had no power, | Emancipation Proclamation |
| prohibits slavery | Thirteenth Amendment |
| William Tecumseh Sherman- war should not be glorified under any circumstances | "War at its best is barbarism...War is Hell." |
| Stephen Crane- man is nothing in the scheme of things | "A Man said to the Universe, 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,'replied the Universe, 'That has not created in me a sense of responsibility.'" |
| Sojourner Truth- a woman can withstand anything that a man can | "And ain't I a woman?" |
| greatest novelist, Anna Karenina, War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| romanticism, The Las of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo | James F. Cooper |
| realist, understood money, Palliser Novels, Chronicles of Barsetshire | Anthony Trollope |
| realist, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes | William Dean Howells |
| realist, Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders | Daniel DeFoe |
| Naturalist, socialist, The Octopus, The Pit | Frank Norris |
| maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is ideal | Idealism |
| Mark Twain | regionalism |
| Henry James | psychological novel |
| Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, | naturalism |
| A humorist who uses criticism and sarcasm, Stephen Cooper | ironist |
| psychological novelist, Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| First American author accepted abroad, romanticist, ironist, naturalist, Red Badge of Courage, Blue Hotel | Stephen Crane |
| why ordinary people behave the way they do, relied on sciences and human behavior | realism |
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