quiz 21 Flashcards
1
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introduced the Blue-Backed Speller
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Noah Webster
2
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only American poet honored in England’s Westminster Abbey
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3
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wrote “Snow-bound”
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John Greenleaf Whittier
4
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wrote exciting stories about frontier life in his Leatherstocking Tales
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James Fenimore Cooper
5
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wrote “The Scarlet Letter”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
6
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this type of education passes accumulated knowledge of the past tot he present generation
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traditional education
7
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this person was responsible for the start of public education
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Horace Mann
8
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The movement begun in the United States by Josiah Holbrook
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Lyceum movement
9
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type of music that made the most distinct contribution to American music
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Negro spiritual
10
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the naturalist who painted the birds of America’s forests
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John James Audubon
