If this is a multiple choice response or includes a passage, you forgot to attach it, which makes this much harder to answer; however, I can confidently state that both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were heavily involved in advocating for protecting nature historically. Emerson was the leader of the transcendentalist movement and wrote many books and poems about nature. Thoreau was scientist and writer who wrote a novel about the connection between humankind and the natural world. Additionally, both men lived in Concord and reportedly were friends.
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Who was president during the Civil War? If you were from a Northern state, you answered Abraham Lincoln. If you were from a Southern state, you may have answered Jefferson Davis. On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president, not of the United States of America but of the Confederate States of America.
The diction of Steinbeck here in apparently describing the dustbowl conditions of the Dirty Thirties is speaking of "tenant men" or presumably men who were tenant farmers perhaps who were allowed to live on the land in return for working it and that they "scuffed" their way home indicates that the dust was so thick they had to scuff but also perhaps that since they could barely make a living under the poor agricultural conditions they did not walk confidently but scuffed.
Careless. It modifies the verb mistake to be a careless mistake
She learned not to blindley follow traditions