An Era of Optimism
The completion of this engineering feat was one of the technological advances that fueled national optimism.
What is the Erie Canal?
These are the 4 cornerstones of Romanticism.
What are: individualism, imagination, nature, and the distant?
This group was named after this fictional historian.
Who was Diedrich Knickerbocker?
The New England School centered in this major city.
What is Boston?
This religion can be described as part of the period's rebellion against orthodoxy.
What is transcendentalism?
The marked differences between the nation's regions led to this undermining national optimism.
What is sectionalism?
Man's individual superiority to man in the masses was the idea of ____________________.
What is individualism?
This is the city where many of the Knickerbockers were centered.
Where is New York City?
The reason these poets were called the New England School group.
What is they were taught in school for many years?
Many of the Unitarian churches were actually established in previous churches of this religion.
What is Puritanism?
The opening of the first one of these is American helped improve transportation.
What is the railroad?
Romanticism was part of a general revolt against these.
What are traditional values?
This man helped to develop the genre of the short story in the US.
Who was Irving?
This is the poet who was a doctor as well as writing occasional verse.
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
"Salvation by character" is one of the 5 central concepts of this religion.
What is Unitarianism?
The "Era of Optimism" spans these years.
What is 1820-1865?
This is where man could learn lessons for his self-improvment.
What is nature?
William Cullen Bryant is often compared to this English poet of the Romanic Period.
Who is William Wordsworth?
This poet was a major voice speaking out against slavery.
Who was John Greenleaf Whittier?
These are the two factors of the transcendentalist movement during this time.
What are the optimists and the pessimists?
Political leaders used these of 1820, 1833, and 1850 to try to prevent hostile actions within the nation.
What are Compromises?
The use of "the distant" included settings in both of these two ways.
What are space and time?
This author supported Lincoln and helped to organize the Republican party.
Who was Bryant?
This poet suffered many important losses including the loss of his second wife.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This book by Charles Darwin brought more attacks on the Word of God than any other source.
What is Origin of the Species?