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What books, shows, movies, or songs do these writers remind you of? Explain.

 might tell a story about how an experience in nature–a walk in the woods, etc.–showed an emotionally exhausted character the goodness that is inherent in the world and in humans, and that character goes back home from the woods with a renewed sense of optimism based solely on the very detailed descriptions of the walk in the woods. 

Match the examples with the literary period, either “Naturalism” or “Realism.”

Which provision was not included in the U.S. Constitution of 1787?

How were some urban slaves able to live independently of their owners?

What did the Code Noir, or “Black Code,” in French colonies permit slave owners to do to their slaves?

From where did most of the African Americans who served with loyalist forces during the American Revolution come?

Why did the Dutch import enslaved workers to New Netherland in their early years of settlement?

Crispus Attucks died protesting the presence of British troops in the colonies because

In the free black town of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, runaway slaves