Encounters and Foundation to 1800
American Romantic Period
American Masters: Whitman & Dickinson
The Rise of Realism
The Modern Period
100
Native Americans
What is the name of the people that lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
100
Louisiana Purchase
What is the name of the biggest deal in US History?
100
As a message to the future
What is considered Whitman's purpose for writing
100
Slavery caused
What is the Civil War?
100
The Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, and the Jazz Age
What are the three subperiods of the Modern period?
200
Protestant group seeking religious freedom from England
What is the reason the Puritans came to America?
200
1848
When was gold discovered?
200
Bold and confident or free verse
What is described as Whitman's writing style
200
Reading and writing couple set apart from other slaves
Who are Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass?
200
The Stock Market crash of 1929
What was the cause of The Great Depression?
300
McCarthy Era
What is the era that the novel The Crucible is compared to?
300
Sutters Mill, California
What is the name of the place that gold discovered?
300
Shy and reclusive
What is personality of Dickinson describe as?
300
Freed the slaves in the south
What is the emancipation proclamation?
300
Discovery, individualism, and persuit of happiness
What was the ideal "American Dream" during the Modern time period?
400
archetype (myth) or creation story
What is the type of character represented in Coyote Finishes His Work?
400
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the name of the person who led the transcendentalist?
400
precise or Slant rhyme
What is described as Dickinson's writing style?
400
Abolished slavery
What is it the 13th amendment?
400
empty pursuit of pleasure or money
What was the "American Dream" corrupted by during the Modern period?
500
You can arrive at truth through reason
What did the rationalist beleive?
500
In determining the ultimate reality of God, one must transcend everyday human experience in the physical world
What is it that the transcendentalist believed?
500
American Romantic and The Rise of Realism
What are the names of the two time periods American Masters fit between?
500
Sorrow Songs
What is the name W. E. B. Dubois gave to spirituals?
500
The Holocaust is closely related to this event in American history
What is slavery?
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