Civil War & Abolitionist Literature
Enslaved people’s narratives, abolitionist essays, and novels brought the horrors of slavery into American homes, forcing readers to confront its brutality. The writings of this genre of abolitionist literature were personalizing injustice through ____________. (Fiction/Nonfiction)
Nonfiction
Author of The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alliances
Narrator of TGG
Nick Carraway
An inner sense of what is morally right or wrong
conscience
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, this female author of the abolitionist era was rumored to have been credited with starting the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
NOT a key problem of the Progressive Era:
wealth inequality,
destruction/aftermath of World War 1
unsafe working conditions,
child labor
destruction/aftermath of World War 1
This piece of literature, intercepted by the British and turned over to America, suggested an alliance between Germany and Mexico, and greatly influenced Americans' decision to support the war effort
Zimmerman telegram
Nick's cousin (FIRST AND LAST NAME!)
Daisy Buchanan
The practice of taking action to create social or political change
Activism
Abolitionists who used newspapers, essays and speeches to shape public thought were utilizing THIS genre of abolitionist literature.
Journalism
Key reformer of the Progressive Era who wrote a book exposing conditions and overcrowding in NYC's tenement buildings
Jacob Riis
Poetry
Where did Nick and Tom go to college?
Yale
The act of setting someone or something free from oppression, confinement, or slavery
Liberation
This poem, by abolitionist author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, used emotional appeal to make the reader feel the grief and suffering of an enslaved woman being separated from her child.
The Slave Mother
author of How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
American author of the poem, "With the Tide," she wrote the poem to honor her friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, on the occasion of his death
Edith Wharton
Tom's mistress (FIRST AND LAST NAME!)
Myrtle Wilson
Extremely small; too small to be measured or noticed
Infinitesimal
Along with ethos and pathos, this type of persuasive appeal was widely used by abolitionist authors.
logos
How the Other Half Lives was an example of this genre of non-fiction
photojournalism
Main protagonist of the novel A Farewell to Arms, he falls in love with Nurse Catherine Barkley at a WW1 hospital where he is recovering
Frederic Henry
Symbolic halfway point between East/West Egg New York and New York City, representing moral decay and depravity
The Valley of Ashes
Displaying a lack of energy; slow, relaxed, or weak
Languid