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Robert Beverley

This person wrote History and Present State of Virginia, published in 1705.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

This person wrote Letters From an American Farmer.

Thomas Jefferson

This person wrote Notes on Virginia.

Thomas Carlyle

This person criticized the new industrialism of both England and the United States.

Tenche Coxe

This person was a merchant in Pennsylvania who became an assistant to Alexander Hamilton.

Daniel Webster

This person was a U.S. Senator known for his oratorical skills.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This person wrote Nature and Self-Reliance.

Henry David Thoreau

This person spent two years living in a cabin at Walden Pond.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This person wrote 'The Unpardonable Sin'.

Herman Melville

This person wrote Typee.

Samuel Clemens

This person wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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