These were the two predominant groups during this era.
Who are the Puritans and the Rationalists?
100
This attack at dawn on November 29, 1864 killed over 150 Native Americans, mostly women and children
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek?
100
These three groups characterized the Romantic Era in American Literature.
What were the Romantics, the Dark Romantics, and the Transcendentalists?
100
In 1862, Congress passed this Act, offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was the head of the household.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Emerson, in this essay, promoted a form of civil disobedience by advocating non-conformity and self-sufficiency.
What is "Self-Reliance?"
200
This style of writing was favored by the Puritans in their diaries, journal, and poems.
What is plain style?
200
This treaty, in which the they agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, was forced upon the Sioux in 1868.
What is The Treaty of Fort Laramie?
200
This man was known as the "father of transcendentalism".
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
These were the African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
Who were the exodusters?
200
In the quote by Emerson, "He who would gather immortal palms, must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness", "immortal palms refers to this.
What is fame?
300
These narratives first documented the experience of Africans.
What are the slave narratives?
300
In 1887, this Act aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
These five "I" words speak to what the Romantics considered "important" - another "i" word.
What is imagination, intuition, innocence, individuality, and intellect?
300
Freestanding houses made of stacks of prairie turf.
What is a soddy?
300
Thoreau entered Harvard in 1833 and attended chapel in a green coat because he wrote "the rules required black." This was the name for the transcendentalist notion which advocated breaking the rules and letting your own conscience be your guide.
What is non-conformity?
400
This Puritan preacher gave one of the most compelling sermons of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards.
400
On December 28, 1890, this Battle, a slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans, brought the Indian Wars, and an entire era, to a bitter end.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
This period in American Literature and History can be described as optimistic...we might even describe the era as someone looking through these."
What are rose-colored glasses?
400
Railroad companies and investors created these enormous single-crop farms of 15,000-50,000 acres.
What are bonanza farms?
400
Thoreau's definition of civil disobedience stated that this institution should not be permitted to overrule a man's own conscience.
What is government?
500
This gentleman who was one of our most eccentric founding fathers felt that human perfection could be achieved by practicing thirteen virtues.
Who is Ben Franklin?
500
A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of white culture.
What is the assimilation?
500
The description "young, innocent, possessing a sense of honor based on higher principles, intuitive, shy around wormen, loves nature, and quests for higher truths" decribes this "type."
Who is a romantic hero?
500
This act, in 1962 and 1890, gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
What is the Morril Act?
500
This the name of the famous book that Thoreau wrote documenting his ideas on civil disobedience.