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47 Cards in this Set
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What are two significant inventions of the 19th century?
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Cotton Gin- Eli Whitney
Steel Plow- John Deer |
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What was THE central issue of the 19th century america? How?
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Slavery, it divided the country into two parts
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When was the Civil War?
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1861-1865
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Who spearheaded the Removal Act of 1830?
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Andrew Jackson
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What did the Indians call Andrew Jackson?
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Sharp-knife
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What was the Trail of Tears?
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The trek of the indians took for the Removal Act of 1830 forcing all Natives past the mississippi.
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Where was gold discovered?
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California in 1848
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What happened as a result of the gold discovery?
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More immigrants came, more westward expansion
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Who invented the term "Manifest Destiny?"
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John Louis O'Sullivan
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Who was Noah Webster
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Inventor of first dictionary and Americanisms.
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What are Americanisms?
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American slang.
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Who said, "It is better to fail at originality then succeed in imitation."? What was he referring?
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Herman Melville, talking about risks american writers must take.
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Who were the two significant American authors in the early 19th century?
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Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hallow
James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans |
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What key evens were stressed in American romanticism?
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Emotion, imagination, subjectivity of approach
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Classical vs Romanticism
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Classical: Reason, objectivity, resists change. Romanticism: imagination, subjectivity, change, growth, development
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What is Renaissance?
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Rebirth of revival
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What is American Renaissance and what is is usually called?
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New England Renaissance; new body of classical ideas and literature.
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Name three major writers of romantic fiction in 19th century
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Melville-Moby Dick
Hawthrone-Scarlet Letter Poe |
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What are four common characteristics of romantic fiction?
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The past, nature, supernatural and human nature
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What events took place in 1848?
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First woman rights convention, Seneca Falls. creation of: Declaration of Sentiments, Gold rush & Treaty of Guadeloupe
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Hypocrisy of Democracy means
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We sappposedly had the most idealistic country but full of genocide of Natives, Slavery, unequal woman's rights.
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The Devil and Tom Walker resembles what German folk tale?
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Dr. Faust
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What two things do Washington Irving decry in The Devil and Tom Walker?
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Slavery, Injustice of treatment of Native Americans
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Starbuck and Captain Ahab demonstrate difference between?
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Logic and Emotion (similar to agre of reason and romanticism)
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Manifest Destiny
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American Progress
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Dime Novels
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Indian Stereotypes
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Emotion and Imagination
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Romanticism
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Corrido
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Mexican ballad set to music
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Mexican war
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Debating society
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Lyceum
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New England
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American renaissance
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Transcontinental railroad
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Anti-Chinese Sentiment
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What is the famous opening line in Moby Dicl?
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Call Me Ishmael
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True of False: Captain Ahab has a leg made of wood
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False (bone/ivory)
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True of False: Ahab reveals to the crew that the purpose of the voyage is to hunt only one whale, Moby Dick.
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True
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True of False: Ahab offers a Spanish Gold coin to the sailor who kills the white whale
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True
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True of False: To Ahab, Moby Dick is a dumb animal driven by instinct
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Falso
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True of False: Ahab succeeds in killing Moby Dick
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Falso
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Who is the narrator and only survivor of Moby Dick?
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Ishmael
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Who said: I'd Strike the sun if it insulted me
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Ahab
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Who said: I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance
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Starbuck
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Who said: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him around Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway maelstrom and round the perdition's flames before I give him up
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Ahab
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Who said: Whosoever of ye raises a white-headed whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw; whosoever of ye raises me that white headed whale, with tree holes punctured in his starboard fluke - look ye, whosoever of ye raises me that same white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!"
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Ahab
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Who said: It had previously come to me that this ivory leg had been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale's jaw"
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Ishmael
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The Louisiana purchase added how much to the US?
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Double it's current size.
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What land was acquired by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago?
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West coast (aside from Oregon)
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Gadsden Purchase was from who? and got us what land?
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From Mexico and got the US the tucson area
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