click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Lit Test.2
American Literature Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| one that is very familiar to the reader, it is a type that doesn't change | stock character |
| Industrial Revolution | 1790-1850 |
| Whitney develops cotton gin | 1793 |
| Library of Congress founded | 1800 |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Fulton demonstrates the Clermont | 1807 |
| War of 1812 | 1812-1814 |
| Irving publishes The Sketch Book | 1819 |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
| Monroe Doctrine | 1823 |
| Erie Canal opens | 1825 |
| Noah Webster publishes An American Dictionary of the English Language | 1828 |
| Morse invents the telegraph | 1836 |
| Kindred Spirits by | Asher Durand |
| Landscape painters | Hudson River School |
| Oxbowl by | Thomas Cole |
| Father of the American Factory System | Samuel Slater |
| Models, system, head/reason, end of 18th century | Classicism |
| First half of 19th century, heart or emotions, experimentation | Romanticism |
| 3 subjects romantic writers tend to write about | Nature, the Past, & the Inner World of Human Nature |