LITERATURE OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This pamphlet galvanized support for American independence since it was easy to understand.
What is Common Sense?
This type of novel is one that is told in letters.
What is an epistolary novel?
This character is described as a "rustic & clownish oaf" with a captivating voice.
Who is Carwin?
This individual was a French immigrant who wrote Letters from an American Farmer.
Who is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur?
This woman encourages her husband to "remember the ladies" in her letter to him in 1776.
Who is Abigail Adams?
This individual was a former slave that led the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Toussaint Louverture?
Brown was disowned for marrying this woman outside of the Society of Friends.
Who is Elizabeth Linn?
This character is the de facto fifth child of Theodore and Clara Wieland.
Who is Louisa Conway?
In this essay, Madison explains how the proposed Constitution protects the interest of the minority.
What is Federalist No. 10?
Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia includes this speech to demonstrate the artistry of Native Americans.
What was Chief Logan's speech?
This group of poets was wealthy and prominent in arts, politics, and commerce, and all hailed from the same city.
Who were the Connecticut Wits?
This man published the first biography of Brown after his death.
Who is Dunlap?
This fictional town outside of Philadelphia is where most of Wieland is set.
What is Mettingen?
This poem details Freneau's capture by the British Navy in 1780.
What is "The British Prison Ship"?
This book by Phillis Wheatley included the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America".
What is Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral?
This book describes the capture of the author by the Narragansett tribe during King Philip's War.
What is A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson?
This genre of novels featured narratives plotted as a series of adventurous episodes featuring a rogue protagonist.
What are picaresque novels?
Father Wieland was part of this evangelical movement.
What is Camissards (French Protestant sect)?
In this treaty, the Haudenosaunee sold land claims in Virginia to the Lenape.
What is the Lancaster Treaty?
Judith Sargent Murray often used this pseudonym to publish her essays.
What is "Constantia" or "The Gleaner"?
This was a mock epic that condemned the Articles of Confederation and made a case for a stronger federalist government.
What is the Anarchiad?
This was Charles Brockden Brown's first book that presented a fictional debate about women's rights.
What is Alcuin: A Dialogue?
Brown takes inspiration from early gothic novels such as Castle of Otronto by this author.
Who is Horace Walpole?
Freneau uses this rhyming pattern in "On the Emigration to America" and "The Indian Burying Ground".
What is iambic tetrameter?
This American literature form was frequently used in sermons and extended lamentation and rebuke.
What is a jeremiad?