10th Grade Semester Exam

Real person who took on a mythical persona even during his lifetime

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Davy Crockett

• George Washington Harris

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Romantic who wrote about Appalachia and frontiersman

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Davy Crockett

• George Washington Harris

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Romantic poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride"

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Davy Crockett

• George Washington Harris

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Transcendentalist who retreated into nature to compose most of his writing

•  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Frederick Douglass

•  Harriet Jacobs

His autobiography , about his life as a slave, was widely circulated

•  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Frederick Douglass

•  Harriet Jacobs

  The Liberator was a muckraker book that exposed unsafe practices in the meat packing industry 

• True

• False

First European to sail to what is today  Florida

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando de Soto

• Ferdinand Magellan

First European to sail around South America

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando de Soto

• Ferdinand Magellan

Spanish explorer who became the first European to step foot in what would become Alabama

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Hernando de Soto

• Ferdinand Magellan

Lelf Ericson founded the island of San Salvador

• True

• False