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40 Cards in this Set
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America defined by Frontier
->Frontier as PROCESS ->happens in stages |
Frederick Jackson Turner-
The Significance of the Frontier 1893 |
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Story of Marian Forrester's decline and the decline of the west from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation.
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Willa Cather-
A Lost Lady 1923 |
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exposes industrial exploitation
->criticism of "Acres of Diamonds" and "Ragged Dick" |
Rebecca Harding Davis-
Life in the Iron Mills 1861 |
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preaches hard work instead of "Luck and Pluck"
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Reverend Alexander Lewis-
An Ode to Upward Mobility 1902 |
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one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune -- the resources to achieve all good things are present in your own community.
->luck and pluck |
Russell H. Conwell-
Acres of Diamonds 1915 |
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list of demands of the populists
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The Omaha Platform
1892 |
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dumb rural farmer gets tricked by an "evil" eastern salesman to buy fake medicine
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Hamlin Garland
Uncle Ethan Ripley 1896 |
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Story of a girl born into the gutter by tenement district who lets the lifestyle consume her and make her turn into a prostitute.
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Maggie: A Girl Of the Streets
Stephen Crane 1893 |
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city as a savag place where people are literally on top of each other
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Rudyard Kiping Gives a Visitor's View of Chicago
1899 |
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speaks of all aspects of life in Chicago, the good and the bad. But embraces the ability of chicago to progress despite anything.
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Carl Sandburg
Chicago 1916 |
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insanity as only escape of woman. about upper class women, educated but limited so ultimate tease
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman-
The Yellow Wallpaper 1892 |
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girl adopted to a southern white family, gives birth to part-black baby. the family learns that the girl is part black and this destroys the foundations their racism was built upon.
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Kate Chopin
Desiree's Baby 1893 |
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unmarried lovers ponder about marriage. the woman wants freedom and doesnt want marriage.
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Edith Wharton
Souls Belated 1899 |
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Explains roles of men, women, african americans, indians, in America. along while feminiizing Europe and promoting imperialism
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Teddy Roosevelt
The Wit and Wisdom of Teddy Roosevelt |
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a woman divorces many men. she is "as easy as an old show" one man was "brutalized", the other man was not the marrying type (affairs), and the other one was womanish
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Edith Wharton-
The Other Two 1904 |
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looks at war as passionless intellectual.
->"Peace without victory" |
Wilson's War Message
1917 |
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progressive response to Wilson's war message
->war favors wealthy/connected ->corporatism |
Senator Robert M. LaFollette's Dissent
1917 |
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took many of the principles of progressivism that had produced domestic reform in the U.S. and translated them into foreign policy (free trade, open agreements, democracy and self-determination).
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Woodrow Wilson-
The Fourteen Points 1918 |
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white elephant->baby
woman's "choice" ->keep baby->be alone ->abortion->keep relationship |
Ernest Hemingway-
Hills Like White Elephants 1927 |
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exposes the truth about war. the US doesnt care about its soldiers. It picks soldiers, any pure white soldier to represent the unknown soldier.
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John Dos Passos-
The Body of an American 1919 |
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Bernice learns to act "modern" in order to attract men.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald-
Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1920 |
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poem about self conscious man who doesnt have luck with the ladies.
->dante's inferno in the beginning ->weak, feminine |
T.S. Elliot-
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1915 |
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businessman who acts like a a big baby.
->fake manliness ->BLANKET |
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt 1922 |
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raids on communists and anarchists because of riots
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A. Mitchell Palmer
The Case Against The Reds 1920 |
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criticizes PAlmer's crusade
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William Allen White
The Red Scare is Un-American 1920 |
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Italian defending himself on a case based on racism.
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The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
1927 |
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Jesus as a salesman
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Bruce Barton
The Man Nobody Knows 1924 |
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Italian defending himself ona a case based on racism.
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Last Speech to the Court |
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revival-> really an orgy
criticizes America strongly ->dissociates himself from society |
H.L. Mencken
The Hills of Zion |
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new perspective on slavery:sacrifice, others made for her
->inventing power structure ->performance |
Zora Neale Hurston-
How It Feels To Be Colored Me 1928 |
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looks like a jazz song
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Langston Hughes poetry
most poems around 1930, a few around 1949 |
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looks liek a sonnet
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Claude McKay poetry
around 1920 |
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lady who poisons her husband and keeps his corpse in their bedroom after he threatens to leave her
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William Faulkner
A Rose For Emily 1930 |
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mystery book with plenty of double-crossing and triple-crossing.
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Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep 1939 |
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father burns barns;
son tells next victim. gunshots are fired |
William Faulkner
Barn Burning 1938 |
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story about two bar workers decing whether to close up shop or to keep it open based on an old man sitting on the ground. older waiter relates with him. younger one does not.
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F. Scott Fitsgerald-
A Clean Well-Lighted Place 1926 |
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attack on the American Dream of achieving wealth and success without regard for principle,
->old, lowly salesman suffers |
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman 1939 |
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non-conformist 1950s man kills himself after telling a strange story to a child
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J.D. Salinger-
A Perfect Day for Bananafish 1953 |
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surreal/real story which explores suburban america and the relationship between wealth and happiness
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John Cheever
The Swimmer 1964 |
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woman sleeps with another man while husband is away in Turin, Italy
->shows suburban lifestyle of organisation men and the feminine mystique |
John Cheever
The Trouble of Marcie FLint |
