Studying Am Lit
Single most influential books on American literature ever written
What is F.O. Mattiessen's American Renaissance?
First Native American-run newspaper
What is the Cherokee Phoenix?
A type of school organized by Frederick Douglass before he escaped slavery
What is "sabbath school"?
"America is now given over to a damned mob of scribbling women"
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The "sleeping serpent" of the early nineteenth century
What is slavery?
Who is Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, and Whitman?
Published stories, poems, and essays by female factory workers
Lowell Offering
The year in which every US state had tax-subsidized elementary schools
"A whole race trying to go to school"
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Called by Thomas Jefferson "the [death] knell of the Union"
What is the Missouri Compromise?
"The orphan child of the curriculum"
What is American literature?
First newspaper published by African Americans
What is Freedom's Journal?
A new, mass-produced newspaper that cost less than six cents
What is the "penny press"?
"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?"
Who is Sydney Smith?
An informal but extensive network of secret routes and safe houses
What is the Underground Railroad?
Genre claimed as the best basis for an American claim to literary independence
What is the slave narrative?
William Lloyd Garrison's influential antislavery newspaper
What is The Liberator?
"It is a peculiarity of this school that it is entirely under the superintendence of colored teachers."
What is the Zion School for Colored Children?
"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world."
Who is Herman Melville?
How John C. Calhoun described slavery
What is "a positive good"?
Keyword replacing "narrowing" as the current scholarly approach to American literature
What is "recovery"?
First published the phrase "manifest destiny"
What is The United States Magazine and Democratic Review?
Who is Mark Twain?
"As soon as we engage in any enterprise having for its foundation the mighty principles of mental illumination, we are at once noticed and respected."
Who is James Forten Jr.?
Law requiring all citizens to return escapees to slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?