| Question | Answer |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass. Transcendentalist. 1860s. |
| Dickinson | The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1860s |
| Melville | Moby Dick, 1851. (The Whale). Benito Cereno. |
| Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter, 1850. |
| Thoreau | Walden, 1854. |
| Emerson | Transcendentalism. Nature 1836, begins transcendentalism. Self-Reliance. |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Raven, 1845. The Fall of the House of Usher. |
| Washington Irving | 1st American writer to recieve national reputation. The Devil and Tom Walker, 1720s. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Dec. of Ind. 1776. |
| Thomas Paine | Common Sense, 1776. The Rights of Man, 1791-1792. The Crisis, Number 1. |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty or give me death!" Orator. 1765 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's Almanac 1733-1758. Helped draft Dec. of Ind. |
| Johnathan Edwards | Grew up Puritain, Leader of Great Awakening (Religious revival of puritainism) during 1730s and '40s. Wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741), sermon. |
| William Bradford | Pilgrim leader. Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (1630). Wrote in plain Puritain style |
| John Smith | 1600's. Immigrant from England. President of Jamestown colony. Published A Description of New England (1616) and The General History of Viginia, New England and the Summer Isles (1624) |
| Anne Bradstreet | Puritan, simple writing style. Devout puritain. Lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1666. |
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