Chpt. 13 Sec. 1 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What was the Second Great Awakening? | a period of widespread evangelism |
To whom did it appeal mostly? | young women [20s and 30s] |
What was transcendentalism? | the idea that people could transcend, or rise above, the material things in life |
Name 3 influential figures who found inspiration in transcendentalism? | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henery David Thoreau |
Which one was responsible for the essay "Self-Reliance" discussing concerns about society? | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Which author's writings earned the person a reputation as a champion of women's rights? | Margaret Fuller |
Which writer lived alone in the woods for 2 years learning about self-reliancefrom isolation? | Henery David Thoreau |
What is a utopian community? | a group of people working to establish a perfect society on Earth |
Who started a community of Shakers, and how did they get their name? | Ann Lee/ because of their tendency to shake their bodies during worship |
How did this group live? | by banning private ownership of property they lived an extremely plain lifestyle |
Explain the idea behind the romantic movment that began in Europe. | best expressed by emotion rather than reason |
Who was a leading romantic painter? | Thomas Cole |
What is one of the best-known examples of romantic literature, and who was the author? | The Scarlet Letter/ Nathaniel Hawthorne |
What is Herman Melville's novel that is thought to be one of the finest American novels ever written? | Moby Dick |
Name several poets who wrote during the romantic period {4} | Henery Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier |
Which of these poets was the most popular during the mid-1800s | Henery Wadsworth Longfellow |
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