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1
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  • Largest Native American nation in the US

- In Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico

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Navajo Indians

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  • In central New York State
  • tribes of the league: Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga
  • self governing bodies
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Iroquois

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  • Contributed to banning the slave trade
  • kidnapped and sold to British
  • crammed on the bottom of the ship
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Olaudah Equiano

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  • adventurer, poet, mapmaker, egotist
  • founded Jamestown
  • captured by pirates
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John smith

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  • led pilgrims to Massachusetts

- governed or pilgrims

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William Bradford

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  • Christian
  • pastor
  • tried to show the worst in his preaching
  • went to college at 13 years old-Yale
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John Edwards

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  • printer

- lightning rod, bifocals, stove

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Benjamin Franklin

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  • University of Virginia
  • decimal system
  • violinist
  • house of burgesses
  • signed Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson

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9
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  • Common sense
  • in army
  • wrote about soldier struggles
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Thomas Paine

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  • Studied law

- published magazines

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Washington Irving

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  • poet, teacher, editor
  • lost his two wives
  • fireside poet
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Henry Wadsworth

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  • journalist
  • fireside poet
  • defended human and women’s rights
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William Cullen Bryant

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  • Literature and medicine
  • went to Harvard
  • fireside poet
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  • Fireside poet
  • Death of three kids
  • wrote about abolition of slaveryI
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James Russell Lowell

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  • Fireside poet
  • Quaker
  • Christian
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John Greenleaf Whittier

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16
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  • Transcendent philosophy

- lived in cabin

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Henry David Thoreau

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  • went to Harvard
  • minister, writer
  • death of wife
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sky chief rips up tree. Wife falls into ocean. Animals look for woman. Earth was made on the turtles back, the wife gave birth to a child.

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The earth on turtles back

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Chief of the sky spirits didn’t like his home so he carved a hole in the sky -Mount Shasta. He pointed and made trees and rivers. He threw the stick, and made animals; biggest = grizzly bear

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When grizzlies walked upright

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20
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Tells about the experience on the ship to America. People jumped off the ship, were caught and killed by the British

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Interesting narrative of the life of Olaudan Equiano

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Interesting narrative of the life Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano

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The struggles of not having food when they arrived. John Smith was captured, and held for ransom. They became friends and he married Pocahontas.

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General history of Virginia

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23
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General history of Virginia

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John Smith

24
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Voyage on the mayflower from England to America.

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Of Plymouth Plantation

25
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Of Plymouth plantation

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William Bradford

26
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The astronauts journey to space and the details that were encountered

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Though right stuff

27
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The right stuff

A

Tom Wolfe

28
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A sermon preached to the Puritans to frighten them. To show they will be judged by God and that it will be painful and scary.

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Sinners in the hands of an angry God

29
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Sinners in the hands of an angry God

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Jonathan Edwards

30
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Written by himself. Shows ways he tries to live by every day, and his daily routine

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The autobiography

31
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The autobiography

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Ben Franklin

32
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Gives a list of philosophies he lives by, and hits close to home with him

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Poor Richards almanac

33
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Poor Richards almanac

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Ben Franklin

34
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Written to King George the III about all the problems being had, and how they should be addressed, and changed

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Declaration of Independence

35
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Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

36
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The conditions of Washington’s army, and how they aren’t succeeding, while they get through this, they’ll grow

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The crisis

37
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The crisis

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Thomas Paine

38
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Ill gotten wealth reshaped a German folk tale about a man who sells his soul to the devil

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The Devil and Tom Walker

39
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The Devil and Tom Walker

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Washington Irving

40
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Universe is divided into two-the soul and nature/fulfills an individuals needs/explains beauty of nature

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Nature

41
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Nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

42
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Shows the need for individuals to avoid conformity in false consistency: follow yourself

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Self-reliance

43
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Self-reliance

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

44
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Shows changes of Walden, and his time alone in the shack. He spent his time there for 18 months to regain his Christianity and life back.

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Walden

45
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Walden

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Henry David Thoreau

46
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How the government should be switched around, and needs to be run differently

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Civil disobedience

47
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Civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

48
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Live life for today because of little time.

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A Psalm of life

49
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A Psalm of life

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

50
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Don’t fear death. Nature soothes pain. Death is beautiful

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Thanatopsis

51
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Thanatopsis

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William Cullen Bryant

52
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Ship is decommissions/what the ship has been through/ship should be destroyed

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Old Ironside

53
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Old Ironside

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

54
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Snow covers whole world/like a grave/snow hides pain of death. Kisses daughter but is meant for the dead one

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The first snowfall

55
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The first snowfall

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James Russell Lowell

56
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Beauty and harm of nature/how everyone is affected by storm/talk about nostalgic stories/nonews of storm

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Snowbound

57
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Snowbound

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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