Washington Irving
Century in which Washington Irving was born.
18th century or 1700s
This pirate buried his treasure under a gigantic oak tree on a high ridge by an inlet.
Kidd
In rationalism, human beings arrive at truth through this.
reason or logic
Romantics valued these places/areas more than the city or urban areas.
countrysides, frontiers or rural areas
The Puritans found truth in this book.
Bible
Character known as "Old Scratch."
The devil
The word used in reference to Tom Walker's wife describing her as a quarrelsome, scolding woman. "Tom's wife was a tall ______________, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm."
"termagant"
Continent where the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment began before spreading to America.
Europe
Romanticists favored this opposite quality over the artificial.
nature or the natural
The Puritans viewed each individual life as a journey to this.
salvation
Along with Edgar Allan Poe and James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving was known as this type of writer or was part of this literary genre.
Romantic writer or American Romanticism
The devil was covered in this black ashen material.
soot
This great English rationalist formulated the laws of gravity and motion.
Sir Isaac Newton
American Romanticism spans this fifty year period during the 1800s.
1800-1850
These two forms of Puritan literature were the most common forms of literary expression used to record the workings of God.
diaries and histories
Name of a short story written by Washington Irving based on the story of a person who sells his or her soul to the devil.
"The Devil and Tom Walker"
When Tom says, "Old Scratch must have had a tough time of it," in reference to his wife, the author is attempting to amuse the reader using this.
humor/wit
This college founded in 1636, originally intended to train Puritan ministers for the rapidly expanding colony in America.
Harvard
Whereas the rationalists favored the aristocratic, romanticists favored this quality (the opposite of aristocratic).
common
This strict Puritan minister was interested in natural science and medicine and began a public campaign for inoculation.
Cotton Mather
One of two other famous characters besides Tom Walker created by Irving.
Rip Van Winkle or the Headless Horseman
The two body parts tied up in Tom's wife's apron.
heart and the liver
Famous rationalist hero who lived from 1706--1790 and had a project to achieve moral perfection. He was a worldly, educated, and sophisticated scientist, inventor, writer, diplomat and negotiator.
Benjamin Franklin
Romatics favored this quality of being able to dream or create things in your mind as the opposite of reason and logic.
imagination
This is the number of people Cotton Mather succeeding in inoculating.
300