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  Identify the year: After being taken off course by a storm in this year, the Pilgrims landed in the Cape Cod area they called Plymouth, having traveled for two months across the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower.

Identify the title:      They called me theirs,      Who so controlled me;      Yet every one      Wished to stay, and is gone,      How am I theirs,      If they cannot hold me,      But I hold them? When I heard the Earth-song, I was no longer brave; My avarice cooled Like lust in the chill of the grave.

Identify the character: This woman was known as a nag, but she tolerated a lazy husband and kept a clean house. Her husband is relieved to find that she has died while he has been gone for two decades.

Identify the person: As I helped guide William Byrd and his party as they were surveying the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia, I shared my people’s religious views including our belief in an omniscient deity, a moral distinction between good and evil, and rewards and punishments in an afterlife existence.

Identify the author: The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice, He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

Name the food that was not part of the first thanksgiving described by Bradford.  

Identify the title:  Ye say, they all have passed away,  That noble race and brave,  That their light canoes have vanished  From off the crested wave;  That ‘mid the forest where they roamed  There rings no hunter’s shout;  But their name is on your waters,  Ye may not wash it out.

The strategy Frederick Douglass did NOT use to learn to read and write, which was against the law for slaves because it gave them power.

 Identify the year: Massachusetts Bay  Colony at Boston was founded in this year.

Name the author: My role as a Puritan minister’s wife influenced my writing after I was held for almost four months by Indians, suffering the death of my daughter while being a captive. I believed that everything that happened was because of the working of God’s plan. My attitude toward Native Americans was that they are savages.