America the Beautiful Answer Key and Literature Guide How to Use the Answer Key and Literature Guide The first section of this book has notes on each of the literature titles we suggest to accompany America the Beautiful. Please read these notes before your children read our suggested literature. An answer key follows the literature guide. The answer key contains answers for the Timeline of America the Beautiful, Student Workbook, Lesson Review, and the vocabulary assignments at the end of the lessons in America the Beautiful. It also includes answers to the questions for literature titles. Appreciation I am grateful to my husband, Ray; our son, John; and my assistants Dena Russell, Ella Boureston, Olive Wagar, and Donna Ellenburg for their assistance in creating this Answer Key. —Charlene Notgrass America the Beautiful Answer Key and Literature Guide ISBN 978-1-60999-138-8 Copyright © 2021 Notgrass History. All rights reserved. Cover Image: Charleston, South Carolina, by Sean Pavone / Shutterstock.com Cover design by Mary Evelyn McCurdy Interior design by John Notgrass and Charlene Notgrass No part of this material may be reproduced without permission from the publisher. You may not photocopy this book. If you need additional copies for children in your family or for students in your group or classroom, contact Notgrass History to order them. Printed in the United States of America. Notgrass History Gainesboro, TN 1-800-211-8793 notgrass.com Literature Guide 1 Notes on Literature We choose our suggested literature carefully. Sometimes we suggest a book that has many excellent qualities, but does have references that are mildly or even highly offensive. We want you to know ahead of time what those are so that you can choose whether you are okay with your child reading the book on his or her own, whether you want to read the book aloud to your children, or whether you want to forego the book altogether. Following are specific pages we want you to be aware of ahead of time. Often a writer uses certain words in order to show how hurtful those words are and to make a strong contrast between good and evil. Attitudes, customs, and what people see as acceptable and unacceptable change over time. It is easy for us to look back and make harsh judgments on people of the past, just as it will be easy for people in the future to do the same when they see what we have done or not done. In some ways, we can’t hold people in the past accountable for today’s values because they simply did not know what we know now. However, sometimes seeing bad attitudes and actions in a book helps us to see how harmful they are and encourages us to make changes in our own lives so that we do not do the same things ourselves. Growing Up Dakota he purchases his own freedom and the freedom of others while living a life of faith in God. Growing Up Dakota is the firsthand account of “Africa 1725” a boy growing up in the late 1800s. The stories are Page 5—Reference to the practice of sacrificing excerpts from two of Charles Alexander Eastman’s imperfect children books about his childhood. You will learn about Page 9—Reference to the “Spirit of the Night” the everyday lifestyle of his nation during a time when settlers were moving into their homeland. “The Middle Passage” Growing Up Dakota makes references to war, but Pages 19-20—Prayers said to the “Spirit of the we have edited out all gruesome references. Night,” “Spirit of the River,” spirit of his father, spirit of the victim, and the “God of Chapter 4 Life” Page 23—A story about playing with bees begins on page 23. Parents may wish to Page 22—Reference to the captives as a “black warn their children of the danger of this, cargo of slaves” especially parents whose children are Page 33—A man says, “Call him Amos. That’s allergic to bee stings. a good Christian name for a heathen black.” Chapter 16 “Woburn 1740-1749” Page 97 and following—This chapter entitled Page 62—Use of the phrase “gay smile” “The Maidens’ Feast,” talks about purity meaning happy smile in a very positive and subtle way. Some “Journey to Keene 1779” children may be unsure what is meant Page 90—A character says, “But that’s what by purity, so it could afford parents an they are, those black people, nothing but opportunity to talk about this issue. children. It’s a good thing for them the whites took them over.” Page 91—Use of the phrase “gay jacket” Amos Fortune meaning bright and colorful Amos Fortune: Free Man tells the story of a “Arrival at Jaffrey” young man who was born as a prince in Africa. He Page 104—The constable refers to “other free is enslaved and brought to America. As an adult, Negroes” and tells Amos, “You won’t be without your own kind.” 2 America the Beautiful “Hard Work Fills the Iron Kettle 1781-1789” Page 81—Use of the phrase “blast you” Page 122—A character says, “What a pity he Chapter 7 isn’t white. He could do so much for the Page 90—Brady says that a scarecrow is church.” “bewitched” and that “bewitchment is loose.” Brady Page 91—Brady says there is “bewitchment all over the place” and refer to “Drover’s Brady tells the story of a boy who learns spells.” an important secret during the time of the Page 92—Brady says Drover is able to “cast Underground Railroad. spells.” Chapter 1 Page 93—Use of the word “queer” meaning Page 17—Two boys take rifles into the woods. odd or unusual Chapter 2 Chapter 9 Page 21—A character says, “...his mother Pages 115, 118—Use of the phrase “for petey’s being a witch and all.” sakes” Pages 26, 27—Reference to Drover Hull “casting spells” Chapter 10 Page 127—A character says that a slave Page 26—Use of chewing tobacco “doesn’t have the capacity to use freedom; Page 26—Use of the word “queer” meaning it would be no kindness to give it to him.” odd or unusual Pages 129, 130—Use of the phrase “for petey’s Page 31—Use of expression “for land’s sake” sakes” Chapter 3 Page 129—Use of the word “queer” meaning Pages 34, 35, 38—Use of expression “for odd or unusual petey’s sakes” Page 131—Use of the phrase “for land’s sakes” Page 38—Use of the word “queer” meaning odd or unusual Chapter 11 Pages 136, 142—Use of the phrase “for petey’s Chapter 4 sakes” Pages 49, 58—Use of expression “for petey’s Page 137—Reference to “a colored boy” sakes” Page 142—Use of the word “Lordy!” Page 53—Use of the word “queer” meaning odd or unusual Chapter 12 Page 148—Use of the word “queer” meaning Page 56—Reference to “her colored mammy” odd or unusual Page 57—Character says a boy is “big enough now to go out sparking the girls.” Chapter 13 Pages 159, 161, 163, 167—Use of the phrase Chapter 5 Page 64—Use of expression “by jingo” “for petey’s sakes” Pages 66-67—Reference to “Drover’s spell” Chapter 14 Page 67—Character says he is going to “get Page 171—Use of the phrase “for petey’s out my tobacco.” sakes” Page 67—A character asks, “Who’s the Page 175—Use of the word “queer” meaning darkie?” odd or unusual Chapter 6 Chapter 15 Page 76—A character refers to someone as an Pages 181, 182—Use of the word “queer” “Indian fighter” who had used a knife to meaning odd or unusual “scalp an Indian.” Page 182—Reference to a Buddha statue Literature Guide 3 Pages 182, 183—Use of the phrase “for petey’s Page 40—Use of the phrase “gay melodies” sakes” meaning merry Chapter 16 Pages 41, 43—References to chewing tobacco Page 188—Use of the phrase “for petey’s Page 48—Use of the phrase “gay high jig of a sakes” fiddle” meaning merry Chapter 17 Chapter 6 Pages 202, 206—Use of the phrase “for petey’s Pages 55, 58—References to a grandmother sakes” with a pipe Chapter 18 Page 56—Reference to “Indian war parties” Page 79—Reference to a “bad time with the Page 213—Use of the word “queer” meaning Indians” odd or unusual Chapter 7 Pages 213, 223—Use of the phrase “for petey’s This chapter has several unkind references to sakes” people who are enslaved, but these statements Page 223—Use of the phrase “for land’s sake” shock the main character and she does not agree with them. Page 65—A character says her family had Bound for Oregon “slaves to do all the work.” Bound for Oregon tells the story of a young Page 66—Reference to an Indian village girl and her family who travel west on the Oregon Pages 68-69—A character is afraid of Indians Trail. It mentions violence and conflict between stealing horses and massacring white settlers and native nations. The book also has families. characters who are disrespectful to native nations Page 71—Reference to Indians and African Americans. However, the family of Page 77—A character says, “You know we are the main character does not have those attitudes doing niggers’ work.” and speaks up in their defense. Page 77—The character goes on to say, “Those Chapter 1 people are only fit to be bossed and do dirty Page 2—Reference to Indians and the work.” Whitman massacre, which left 14 people Page 77—The character further says, “You do dead not know them as I do.” Page 3—A character says “Pawnees are the Page 78—The character says, “You can’t trust worst tribe.” one of them.” Page 10—Reference to Indians Chapter 11 Page 12—A character thinks about “fourteen Page 107—Reference to hearing about Indians women and children killed.” stealing stock Chapter 2 Pages 108-111—A family is attacked by Page 18—Reference to an Indian trying to members of a native nation.