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Historical Context
Cultural Influences
Ideas of the Age
Romantic Literature
Miscellaneous
100
The idea that it was the destiny of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean
What is "manifest destiny"?
100
Many writers of the American Romantic period were outspoken about this
What is human rights?
100
Black and white abolitionists worked together to achieve this
What is emancipation?
100
William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper made up this group of American Romantic writers
What is the Early Romantics?
100
This literary movement first emerged in Europe during the late 18th century in reaction to the neoclassicism period that preceded it
What is romanticism?
200
This war interrupted trade with the British forcing Americans to produce more goods
What is the War of 1812?
200
This invention caused the number of enslaved workers to increase greatly from 1793 until 1860
What is the "cotton gin"?
200
The belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries
What is nationalism?
200
Early Romantics celebrated the glories of this in their writing
What is the individual?
200
Fireside poets emphasized these themes in their work
What is moral themes?
300
This caused the country to change from a largely agrarian economy to an industrial powerhouse
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The North and the South experienced increased tension during this time period mainly due to this
What is slavery?
300
The idea that interest of one's region should be placed ahead of the nation as a whole
What is sectionalism?
300
This was how the Fireside Poets achieved their name
What is by their stories being told around the fire for entertainment?
400
The reason many Americans, including writers, found the Mexican war to be immoral
What is expansion of land meant expansion of slavery?
400
These were some of the main difficulties in the life of a slave
What is hard labor, corporal punishment, and separation from family?
400
The continued practice of this challenged the new spirit of nationaism
What is slavery?
400
A philosophical literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrating truth found in nature and personal emotion
What is transcendentalism?
400
This famous group of writers included Walt Whitman and Robert Frost
What is transcendentalists?
500
Writers of this period reflected on these negative effects of industrialization in their writings
What is commercialism, hectic pace, and lack of conscience?
500
William Cullen Bryant and James Russel Lowell were outspoken writers who lobbied for these rights
What is workers' and women's rights?
500
American Romantic writers forged together to produce this for the first time
What is national literature?
500
This group of author's held a philosophy that was filled with dark currents and an awareness of the human capacity for evil
What is the American Gothics?
500
This American Gothics famous works include "The Raven", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Tell-tale Heart"
What is Edgar Allan Poe?