Authors And Facts Flashcards

(39 cards)

1
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Who wrote America for me

A

Henry van Dyke

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2
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Who wrote the flag goes by

A

Henry Holcomb Bennett

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3
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Who wrote a creed for Americans

A

Stephen Vincent Benét

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4
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Who wrote what is an American?

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Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

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5
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Who wrote America was schoolmasters

A

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

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6
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Who wrote a jingle of words

A

Elizabeth Scott Stam

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7
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Who wrote liberty and union

A

Daniel Webster

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8
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Who wrote the Portland declaration

A

Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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9
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Who wrote the nation and the gospel

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James Russell Lowell

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10
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Who wrote American names

A

Stephen Vincent Benét

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11
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Who wrote they have yarns

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Carl Sandburg

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12
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Who wrote my life story, a business letter

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Artemus ward(Charles Ferrar brown)

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13
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Who wrote the mule, the bumblebee

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Josh Billings (Henry W.Shaw)

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14
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Who wrote the notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county and innocents abroad

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Mark twain (Samuel Clemens)

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15
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Who wrote reflections on American life: a collection of sayings

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Will Rogers

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16
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Who wrote rip van winkle

A

Washington Irving

17
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Who wrote the pit and the pendulum

A

Edgar Allan Poe

18
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Who wrote the cop and the anthem

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O. Henry (William Sidney porter)

19
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Who wrote the town poor

A

Sarah Orne Jewett

20
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Who wrote the open boat

A

Stephen Crane

21
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Who wrote the great carbuncle

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

22
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Who wrote the play the unerring instinct

A

Thornton Wilder

23
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Who wrote the play Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning

24
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Who wrote Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

A

Captain John Smith

25
From which book came psalm 1 and Psalm 63
The bay psalm book
26
Which book was the first printed book in America
The bay psalm book
27
Who wrote of Plymouth plantation
William Bradford
28
Who wrote a key into the language of America
Roger Williams
29
The author to her book and verses upon the burning of our house, July 10, 1666
Anne Bradstreet
30
The day of doom
Michael Wigglesworth
31
Meditation one
Edward Taylor
32
The courtship of Madame Winthrop
Samuel Sewall
33
My journey from Boston to New York
Sarah Kemble Knight
34
Poor Richards almanac
Ben Franklin
35
Psalm 137
Timothy Dwight
36
The battle of the kegs
Francis Hopkinson
37
On being brought from Africa to America, a funeral poem on the death of CE and infant of 12 months
Phillis Wheatley
38
And escape from alligators
William Bartram
39
The definition and origin of language
Noah Webster