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Purtanism Movement Flashcards

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food or provisions

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victuals

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“seker” : begging for help

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succor

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strengthen or support physically or mentally

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Sustain

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a dense group of bushes or trees

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Thicket

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refusing to obey orders, rebellion

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Mutinous

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written or spoken communication or debate

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Discourse

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the place or roll someone or something should fill

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Stead

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deserving praise

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Laudable

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knowledge awareness or notice

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Cognizance

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Was the governor of England

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William Bradford

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Mark Twain’s real name

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Mark twain was Born in 1835 in

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Florida, Missouri

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(Twain) Childhood In _______, Missouri (Mississippi river); makeshift rafts and swimming holes.

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Hannibal

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(Twain) Father faltered business speculations, died when Twain was ___ years old.

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12

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(Twain) Ceased formal study; began apprenticing as ____________

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a typesetter for local newspapers.

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(Twain) Worked for his brother, who owned several newspapers; wrote under _______

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pseudonym

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Twain and brother suffered Bussiness failings, twain departed,
wandered from the Midwest to the East Coast and supported himself by publishing his ________ in the various newspapers still managed by brother.

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observations

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(Twain) Intentions of traveling down the Missisispi river to _________ from which he would then depart for South America with intentions of amassing a fortune there

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New Orleans, LA

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Twain met a veteran steamboat captain named ___________

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Horace Bixby

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Twain Obtained his own pilots license, spent more time traveling _________

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up and down.

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Twain Briefly served in the ___________, traveled with his brother to Nevada, then began a years work panning for gold and silver

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Confederate Army

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(Twain) While writing in Virginia city, angered a rival journalist, who insisted on a ____. Fled to _________

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Duel

San Francisco

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(Twain) Worked with newspapers, known for moralistic but humorous, _______ against public figures and institutions

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diatribes

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(Twain) Offended the city’s _________, which responded with a lawsuit charging libel. Fled to the ______, eventually returned.

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police department

Sierras

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(Twain) prominent humorist ___________ for a piece to be included in a forthcoming humor anthology, responded with “The Celebrated Jumping Frog or Calaveras County”

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Artemus Ward

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(Twain)Most celebrated and notorious writings came as a correspondent for the ____________; convinced editors to finance a 5- month trip aboard the Quaker City pleasure boat bound for Europe and the Middle East; mocked the sailing party’s wealthier members and reveled in the pranks of its younger more reckless members, sent 51 letters to the Alta

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Alta California

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The Innocents Abroad sold ______ copies in the first year realizing profits, respectively, of $______ equivalent in current dollars would be $165,000

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69,500

$14,000

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Twain Married ___________, father provided Twain with a sizable shareholding of a newspaper in Buffalo and housed the couple in a furnished mansion

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Olivia Langdon

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(Twain) Lived in _______ for twenty years, nearby other writers

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Hartford

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(Twain)Collaborated with Warner on _________, a love story set President Ulysses S. Grant’s cur root administration (not received by public and critics)

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The Gilded Age

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Who wrote the adventures of Tom Sawyer?

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Mark Twain

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(Twain) After publishing the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, immediately began work on a novel about Huckleberry Finn it took _______ years

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Seven

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(Twain) In 1881 published _______________, a straightforward novel about mistaken identities in sixteenth-century England (won acclaim as a compelling and convincing tale of historical England) financial failure

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The prince and the Pauper

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(Twain) In 1883, _____________, Twain’s recollection of his steamboat adventures: “wrote nostalgically of his steamboat years, rendering the Mississippi River as an every mysterious, unfathomable force of powerful reflections, murky shores, and colorful travelers”; faltered commercially though

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Life on the Mississippi

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(Twain) 1884 completed ________________; considered his masterpiece and one of greatest works in American literature; initially condemned in some areas as “inappropriate material for young readers; it sold well, and became prized for its recreation of the Antebellum South, insights into slavery, depiction of adolescent life

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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(Twain) By the 1880s no longer enjoyed financial security of before: poor investment in a publishing house and an alternative _______ device

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typesetting

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(Twain) In 1889 ______________________: a harsh depiction of life in sixth-century England; compared its repressive, anti democratic society to that of post- Civil War America; only scant success when it appeared; acid humor and bleak depiction of human progress– particularly technology

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Twain: in ____ declared bankruptcy

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1891

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(Twain) The ______________, and _____________; satisfactory sales, recently, critics place it among the finest American novels of the late-nineteenth century

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Tragedy off Pudd’nhead Wilson and the comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins

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Twain Started a series of successful lecture tours in __________________in the mid-1890s; published observation as Following the Equator; substantial sales; once again achieved financial stability

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Canada, Australia, India, South Africa

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(Twain) Favorite daughter, ______ (born in 1872),died of ________ in (twain) August 1896, in 1904 his wife died, never having fully recovered from the shattering ____________. Then in December 1909, his daughter Jean (born in 1880) died of an __________. His only son, _________ (born in 1870), had died at the age of 19 months in 1872. Of his four children, only _____ (born 1874) survived him

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Susy
meningitis
blow of Susy's death
epileptic seizure
Langdon
Clara
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(Twain) By 1906 Twain was professing to see no hope for “the damn’d human race”, and in __________, published that year, he humorlessly indicted all people as pitiful creatures of low self-interest

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What is Man?

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Twain lived in __________ from 1900 to 1903 and in ___________, from 1903 to 1908, when he built a house, Stormfield, In Redding, Connecticut. In his last years he suffered from heart disease. He died in Redding at the age of seventy-four

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New York City

Florence, Italy,

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First female author/poet Puritanism movement

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Anne Bradstreet

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(Anne) Born ____ in _________, England

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1612

Northampton

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(Anne)

Sailed to American colonies with her husband Simon, settling in ___________

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Massachusetts

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Anne was the mother of __
She wrote a book of long poetry that was published in England with her later work focusing on family, habitat and death. She also wrote the prose work, _________.

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meditations

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(Anne) She died on __________, in Andover, Massachusetts

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sept. 16, 1672

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(Anne) Her identity is linked because of her predominant father and husband, both __________________

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governors of Massachusetts

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Anne’s Her domain was domestic, separated from the ____________________

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linked affairs of church and state

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(Anne) Her friend _____________, the mother of 14 children, held prayer meeting where women debated about what they feel.

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Anne Hutchinson

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(Anne)Hutchinson was labeled a _______ and banished, eventually slain in an Indian attack in New York

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Jezebel

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(Anne)Bradstreet wrote _________ for both her mother and father which not only show her love for them but shows them as models of male and female behavior in Puritan culture

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epitaphs

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The poems were published under The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650 when she was 38 and it sold well in England

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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Anne She was seen as a strange _________ of womanhood at the time

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aberration

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