Authors And Facts Flashcards

1
Q

Who wrote America for me

A

Henry van Dyke

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2
Q

Who wrote the flag goes by

A

Henry Holcomb Bennett

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3
Q

Who wrote a creed for Americans

A

Stephen Vincent Benét

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4
Q

Who wrote what is an American?

A

Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

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5
Q

Who wrote America was schoolmasters

A

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

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6
Q

Who wrote a jingle of words

A

Elizabeth Scott Stam

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7
Q

Who wrote liberty and union

A

Daniel Webster

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8
Q

Who wrote the Portland declaration

A

Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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9
Q

Who wrote the nation and the gospel

A

James Russell Lowell

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10
Q

Who wrote American names

A

Stephen Vincent Benét

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11
Q

Who wrote they have yarns

A

Carl Sandburg

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12
Q

Who wrote my life story, a business letter

A

Artemus ward(Charles Ferrar brown)

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13
Q

Who wrote the mule, the bumblebee

A

Josh Billings (Henry W.Shaw)

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14
Q

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

A

Mark twain (Samuel Clemens)

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15
Q

Who wrote reflections on American life: a collection of sayings

A

Will Rogers

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16
Q

Who wrote rip van winkle

A

Washington Irving

17
Q

Who wrote the pit and the pendulum

A

Edgar Allan Poe

18
Q

Who wrote the cop and the anthem

A

O. Henry (William Sidney porter)

19
Q

Who wrote the town poor

A

Sarah Orne Jewett

20
Q

Who wrote the open boat

A

Stephen Crane

21
Q

Who wrote the great carbuncle

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

22
Q

Who wrote the play the unerring instinct

A

Thornton Wilder

23
Q

Who wrote the play Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning

A

Mark twain

24
Q

Who wrote Captain John Smith and Pocahontas

A

Captain John Smith

25
Q

From which book came psalm 1 and Psalm 63

A

The bay psalm book

26
Q

Which book was the first printed book in America

A

The bay psalm book

27
Q

Who wrote of Plymouth plantation

A

William Bradford

28
Q

Who wrote a key into the language of America

A

Roger Williams

29
Q

The author to her book and verses upon the burning of our house, July 10, 1666

A

Anne Bradstreet

30
Q

The day of doom

A

Michael Wigglesworth

31
Q

Meditation one

A

Edward Taylor

32
Q

The courtship of Madame Winthrop

A

Samuel Sewall

33
Q

My journey from Boston to New York

A

Sarah Kemble Knight

34
Q

Poor Richards almanac

A

Ben Franklin

35
Q

Psalm 137

A

Timothy Dwight

36
Q

The battle of the kegs

A

Francis Hopkinson

37
Q

On being brought from Africa to America, a funeral poem on the death of CE and infant of 12 months

A

Phillis Wheatley

38
Q

And escape from alligators

A

William Bartram

39
Q

The definition and origin of language

A

Noah Webster