American Literature 1 Jeopardy Template

COLONIAL ERA	PURITANS	ENLIGHTENMENT	TRANSENDENTALISM	ROMANTICISM
100 Who is Captain John Smith? His most famous book was The General Historie of Virginia and Jamestown	100 What was The Salem Witchcraft Trials? 19 men and women hung and 1 man pressed to death as a result	100 Who is Benjamin Franklin? Wrote an autobiography to his son.	100 Who is Henry David Thoreau? Felt the people do not have to follow a government that they feel is unjust.	100 What is The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe? "Nevermore"
200 Who is Anne Bradstreet? The first published author living in the English colonies in North America	200 Who is Francis Daniel Pastorius? Wrote Letter from Philadelphia to his father discussing William Penn	200 What are Letters From An American Farmer? J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote this to describe Americans.	200 Who is Henry David Thoreau? Walden, The Village	200 What would Bartleby, The Scrivener say when asked to do something? "I prefer not."
300 Who is William Bradford? Wrote Plimoth Plantation	300 Who is Cotton Mather? Figure comes to mind associated with Salem Witch Trials even though he did not participate directly	300 What is Common Sense? Written as a call to action by Thomas Paine.	300 What is "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson? First book that was published anonymously.	300 What is "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne? Story about Puritans concerning actual events including the Salem Witch Trials
400 Who is Richard Frethorne? An indentured servant, who wrote a letter to his parents about his time living on James River	400 Who is Samuel Sewall? The only Judge from the Salem Witch Trials to publicly recant his part in the trials	400 What is Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving? This story is an allegory for America.	400 Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson? Believed in "the importance of self-culture to the intellectual and moral development of the individual."	400 Who is Emily Dickinson? After her death, more than a thousand poems were found in her desk.
500 Who is Mary Rowlandson? Wrote about her time as a Captive during King Philip's War	500 What is to show his outrage for the Salem Witch Trial? Letter of Thomas Brattle, 1692 was written for this purpose	500 What are Ben Franklin's Chart of 13 Virtues? Benjamin Franklin listed 13	500 What German philosopher was Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced by? Immanuel Kant	500 What is "When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd" by Walt Whitman? Poem was written about Abraham Lincoln's funeral

AMERICAN LITERATURE 1

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