American Literature Flashcards

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Which American Literature author wrote General History of Virginia New England and the Summer Isles?

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John Smith

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Which American Literature author wrote History of Plimmoth Plantation?

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William Bradford

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Which American Literature author wrote History of New England?

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John Winthrop

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Which American Literature author wrote An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences?

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Increase Mather

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Which American Literate author wrote Magnolia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of NE from its First Planting?

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Cotton Mather

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Which American Literature wrote New English Canaan?

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Thomas Morton

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Which American Literature author wrote Brief History of the Pequod War?

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John Mason

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Which American Literature author wrote A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration?

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Mary Rowlandson

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Which American Literature authors wrote Bay Psalm Book?

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Thomas Wield, Richard Mather, John Eliot

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Which American Literature author wrote Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America? - [ A Dialogue between Old England and New, Four Elements, Four Constitutions, Four Ages of Man, Four Monarchies, and Contemplations]

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Anne Bradstreet

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Which American Literature author wrote Poetical Works, God’s Determination Touching His Elect?

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Edward Taylor

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Which American Literature author wrote Day of Doom?

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Michael Wigglesworth

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Which American Literature author wrote A Character of the Province of Maryland?

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George Alsop

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Which American Literature author wrote A Brief Description of New York?

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Daniel Denton

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Which American Literature author wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Freedom of the Will?

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Johnathan Edwards

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Which American Literature author wrote History of the Dividing Line, Secret Diary, Another Secret Diary?

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William Byrd

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Which American Literature author wrote Bar’s Fight August 28, 1746?

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Lucy Terry

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Which American Literature author wrote An Evening thought Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries?

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Jupiter Hammon

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Which American Literature author wrote The book of Poems?

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Phillis Wheatley

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Which American Literature author wrote Public Occurences?

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Benjamin Harris

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Which American Literature author wrote Boston News-Letter?

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John Campbell

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Which American Literature author wrote American Magazine?

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Andrew Bradford

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Which American Literature author wrote General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanac?

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Benjamin Franklin

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Which American Literature author wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

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Crevecoeur (J. Hector St. John)

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Which American Literature authors wrote The Federalist?
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
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Which American Literature author wrote Common Sense, Crisis, Age of Reason, The Rights of Man, Hartford Wits?
Thomas Paine
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Which American Literature author wrote M'Fingal?
John Trumball
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Which American Literature author wrote The Conquest of Canaan, The Truimph of Infidelity, Greenfield Hill?
Timothy Dwight
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Which American Literature author wrote Hasty Pudding?
Joel Barlow
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Which American Literature author wrote House of Night?
Phillip Freneau
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The Interesting Narrative of the life of Gustavus Vassa the African was written by which American author?
Olaudah Equiano
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Power of Sympathy was written by what American author?
William Brown
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Modern Chivalry was written by what American author?
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
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Wieland or the Transformation, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly are all works of which American author?
Charles Brown
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A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Sketch-Book of Geoffery Crayon (including Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow), The Alhambra, A Tour of the Pirates, biographies of Columbus and Washingtion are all works of which American author?
Washington Irving
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Thanatopsis, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood was written by which American author who also was an editor at the New York Post?
William Cullen Bryant
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