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English III
American Romanticism Introduced
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the mid-1700s, _____________________ replaced home based workshops. | factories |
| Two new inventions, the _______________________ and the ___________________ revolutionized transportation. | steam boats, railroads |
| This also helped to divide the US into the north, which has large cities and an economy based on manufacturing, and the __________________, with an economy based on farming ______________________. | South, Cotton |
| During the Age of Reform, Americans group together to | stop slavery and drunkenness, secure women's rights |
| In the 1800s Romantic writers valued ______________________ and ____________________ over intellect and ______________________. | emotion,imagination,reason |
| Romantics celebrated the power, beauty, and wonder of the | Natural World |
| What is literature with a “brooding atmosphere that emphasizes the unknown and inspires fear | Gothic literature |
| Gothic pieces of literature typically feature wild and remote settings, such as | haunted castles,wind-blasted moors |
| famous Gothic Romantic writer | Edgar Allen Poe |
| marked the arrival of the “common people” in American politics | Andrew Jackson |
| The main idea of Transcendentalism was Idealism, which main idea was | reality exists in our ideas |
| What did Emerson tell people | the ultimate source of truth is within ourselves |
| What was the one thing Emerson said he taught | every person was infinite |
| Who spent two years in the wilderness viewing his natural surroundings | Henry David Thoreau |
| Who argued that his “individual conscience was more important than the law | Henry David Thoreau |
| What famous romantic writer wrote a lot about his Puritan ancestors | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Who wrote the Gothic piece, Frankenstein, a novel about a monster destroying its creator | Mary Shelley |
| What new type of fiction did Edgar Allan Poe invent | The Detective Story |
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