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| What was Crevecoeurs famous question? |
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| "What then is the American, this new man?" (Theres no social classes, everyones the same) |
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| What hopes did Crevecoeur have for America? |
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| Increasing political and religious harmony and the gradual elimination of all forms of oppression and prejudice; a society of basic quality without poverty nor ostentanious wealth |
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| When did George Washington become President of the United States? |
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| English mechanic who had plans for a textile mill was |
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| Invented the cotton gin, in the Industrial Revolution |
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| What important purchase did Thomas Jefferson make? |
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| How did roads, canals, and transportation help America? |
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| These new transportation routes helped to bind the states together as a nation |
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| According to Emerson what is the Union? |
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| "Part of the religion of the people" |
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| The US solidified as a nation and shifted from Classicism to |
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| Reason is the dominating characteristic both of nature and of human nature and that both are governed by fixed unchanging laws |
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| importance upon the emotions and upon the individual; emphasized intuition |
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| What problems did the Romantic writers find? |
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| To find a means of bringing their inner world to imaginative expressions in terms that could be shared with others |
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| What are some subjects of Romantic Literature? |
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| Nature, The Past, The Inner World of Human Nature |
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| How did Washington Irving and Bryant reflect the influence of new American literature? |
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| Found in legend and folklore a view of the natural world colored by emotion by superstition and by ancient belief the supernatural beings inhabit wild places |
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| Why is Poe considered the ultimate romantic? |
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| Makes a connection between the human imagination and nature for he made the outer world entirely subservient to the inner one |
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| How did Romantics focus on the past? |
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| Dramatic incidents from our early history became standard literary material |
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| What did American writers find in Romanticism? |
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| They expressed a nationalistic spirit of the age and created a truly significant national literature |
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| At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the US had a population of just over ____ million. |
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| Abolition movement produced a flood of |
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| writing, much of black writers, slaves and freedom |
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| French American farmer and writer was one of the most perceptive observers of American life in the late 18th century |
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| Reason is the dominating characteristic in nature |
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| Nature's laws can be rationally understood |
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| Emphasized the social common |
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| Valued clarity, order, balance |
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| Literature's function to illustrate common values of humanity |
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| Upheld tradition, often resisting change, focused on human limitations |
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| Emotion has central importance |
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| Intuition viewed as the inner perception of truth |
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| Emphasized the individual personal |
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| Imagination is the key to the inner world |
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| Defended the potential of the individual and claim for freedom |
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| Stressed human progress and spiritual growth |
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| Concerned with political reform |
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| Nature viewed as a system of rational precepts governed by fixed unchanging laws |
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| Saw nature as a self contained machine |
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| Concerned with expression of their own intuitive experience |
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| Emphasized the beauty, mystery and of nature strangeness |
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| Saw nature as organic process, constant development and change |
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| Vast and unknown land influenced their imagination, natural world colored by superstition, folklore, belief in supernatural beings. What subject of romantic literature is this? |
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| Rise of nationalism brought new interest in American past. What subject of romantic literature is this? |
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| Emphasis on emotions and intuition encouraged the exploration and expression of writers most private inner being. What subject is this? |
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| The inner world of human nature |
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| This man only sold 1 painting in his career and it took him less than 3 years |
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