During this era in United States history, poetry and fiction expanded widely.
What is the American Renaissance?
100
The author of Wednesday's reading "Curiosities and Cabinets: Natural History Museums and Education on the Antebellum Campus"
Who is Sally Gregory Kohlstedt?
100
Transcendentalism, also known as American romanticism, was advocated by this famous intellectual.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
These types of diseases, cholera and yellow fever, infected many Americans.
What is an epidemic disease?
100
The 3rd president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This was the second wave of the American Renaissance where authors wrote novels left open for the reader's interpretation and philosophical thoughts were expressed.
What is romanticism?
200
This was the term for the container of the scientific and natural specimen archived in museums.
What is a cabinet?
200
These are the main ideas expressed in Transcendentalism.
What are the concepts of independent thinking, knowledge, awareness of truth?
200
He was a New Yorker who established the American Museum featuring magicians, ventriloquists, and other entertainers
Who is P.T Barnum?
200
This established the beginning of the American Revolution?
What were the shots at Lexington and Concord?
300
Name three technological advancements that defined the mid-nineteenth century.
What are the: cotton gin, railroads, penny press, steel plow, mechanical reaper?
300
This was a drawback to the cabinet system.
What is over-crowding?
300
Emerson believes this about American society.
What is the view that society is constantly changing but never advancing?
300
The scientific fad that people thought bumps on an individual's skull determined their character.
What is phrenology?
300
The creator of the National Bank of the United States. Also, he served as President George Washington's chief advisor.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
400
This event led to the connection of small villages and changed the way business was conducted in the U.S.
What is the Railroad Boom?
400
Name at least two colleges that supported the trend in specimen research.
What were Yale, Brown, Vermont, and Harvard?
400
The need for each individual to avoid conformity.
What is the self-reliance essay?
400
James Gordon Bennett was the founder of this technological advance.
What is the penny press?
400
These were the four Native American tribes influenced by President Jackson's Indian Removal Act in 1830.
Who are the: Chickasaws, Cherokee, Choctaws, and Creeks.
500
A form of entertainment during the mid-eighteen-hundreds that mimicked African Americans.
What are minstrel shows?
500
This was the effect of the cabinet system.
What is the new way the universities and museums organized information and the availability of those facts?
500
Emerson states, "man is timid and apologetic, he is no longer upright; he dares not say 'I think,' 'I am.'' Emerson believes man should have this quality/trait
What is self worth?
500
In 1837, this person created the steel plow.
Who is John Deer?
500
The protest in 1794 where farmers protested taxes. A tax collector was tar and feathered.