Yellow Fever Alternative

What is the title of the text?

• An American Plague

• An American Tale

• Fever Weather

• The Yellow Death

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CCSS.RL.7.1

Which cities were affected most? (Name 3 that apply)

In An American Plague, we learn Dr. Benjamin Rush's nickname was the ''Prince of Bleeders'' because he believed you could cure yellow fever with a mixture of poison-induced vomiting and what else?

• blood-letting

• covid-19 vaccine

• sleep

• cold bath

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CCSS.RI.7.1

In the book, summer time was known as_______

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

name 3 of the main ideas we discussed in class around why Yellow fever was so dangerous at that time:

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CCSS.RI.7.2

What year did yellow fever begin in the book "An American Plague"? ____

what type of bug was labeled a cause for the yellow fever?

 One of the main physicians at the frontline of the yellow fever epidemic and the first to sound the alarm on the crisis who DID want to quarantine was _______

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CCSS.RI.7.3

The president at the time was _______

The doctor that believed that the fever came from a trade ship was ________