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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.

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.