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Identify the term as defined: the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America and who are tagged with the intent of “originalism” whether they believed in it or not

Why did Thoreau refuse to pay his poll tax?

What is the first and most attention-getting metaphor of Emerson’s essay “Nature”? His friend even drew a picture of this metaphor.

What is the miraculous item(s) that John Smith shows the indigenous peoples and with which he explains the workings of the universe?

What metaphor did Williams use to express his idea of the separation of church and state?

“if ever two were one, then surely we” is the first line of one of Bradstreet’s poems from the group known as the

Mary Rowlandson started a new literary genre, the captivity narrative, when she wrote about her time as a war prisoner of the Wampanoags during which war?

Which of the following is not a trait of an American according to the lectures in this class?

In Emerson’s essay titled “Self-Reliance,” he says that people should act with

According the Frederick Douglass, which holiday would no slave, former slave, or person subject to slavery in the United States want to celebrate?