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Identify the author: I am one of the most important poets in American Literature with tremendous influence on later generations. The form of my poems showed the freedom I celebrated, often using cataloging or listing what I observed in American life on all levels. I was a medic for the Union side since I could not serve as a soldier. Although I opposed slavery and supported the Union, I did not turn against the Rebel soldiers and fellow human beings and felt the loss of all human life.

Identify the author: I was born in Salem and while in college I was a roommate with Franklin Pierce, who would become President of the United States. I disagreed with my transcendental neighbors and saw that nature does not always present a pleasing aspect. I despised intolerance, hypocrisy, and greed that refuse to share joy. I recognized the sinful nature of all human beings in my fiction. I often used Puritan settings and outward symbols of inner sin.

Identify the title: And everywhere among the countless graves—everywhere in the many soldier Cemeteries of the Nation, (there are now, I believe, over seventy of them)—as at the time in the vast trenches, the depositories of slain, Northern and Southern, after the great battles—not only where the scathing trail passed those years, but radiating since in all the peaceful quarters of the land—we see, and ages yet may see, on monuments and gravestones, singly or in masses, to thousands or tens of thousands, the significant word Unknown.

  Identify this person:  This Native American daughter of Chief Powhatan helped early settlers to survive in Virginia. She married John Rolfe, an English tobacco planter.She died in England at age twenty-two during a visit to London that included an audience with the Queen of England.

Identify the title: I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.   I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my easy observing a spear of summer grass.  

  Identify the person:  The Declaration of Independence addressed the abuses against the colonies by this king .

  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.