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 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.

Identify the speaker: “Nevermore”

Identify the title: “Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.”

Identification: A Chief of the Shawnee, he had a vision of native peoples joined through a common heritage and the land intended for them. He was convinced it was necessary to resist white settlement.

I understand that I must be in a well-lit room while I take the exam.

Identify the title for the quote:Thine eyes shall see the light of distant skies,Yet, COLE! thy heart shall bear to Europe’s strandA living image of our own bright land,Such as upon they glorious canvas lies:. . .Fair scenes shall greet thee where thou goest-fair,But different–everywhere the trace of men,Paths, homes, graves, ruins, from the lowest glenTo where life shrinks from the fierce Alpine air,Gaze on them, till the tears shall dim thy sight,But keep that earlier, wilder image bright.

Identify the title of the quote: The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ‘Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom; but of a continent-at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe. ‘Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time by the proceedings now. Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith, and honor.

Identify: Setting for “Rip Van Winkle”

Identify title of quote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.