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inspired during the 1830s by the writings of Emerson and came into its own in the 1850s
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Renaissance
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could be viewed retrospectively as a fulfillment of the repeated calls, from 1770s on
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American literary reniassance
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when did critics generally agree that US had produced writers worthy of a great nation
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decade of 1820s
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can be seen as the first great culmination of American literary nationalism, a decade that helped spawn the "Renaissance" to come
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1820s
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when elected president in 1828 was seen as the incarnation of the democratic spirit of the age
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andrew jackson
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influential journal founded in Boston shortly after the war ended in 1815
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North American Review
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what did Jefferson acquire from France in 1803 that doubled the size of the nation's total acreage
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Louisiana Territory
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who explored difficult questions about the nation's future, about its strengths and vulnerabilities, and about its character and potential as a democratic republic
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american literary nationalism of the 1820s
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by around 120 what began to develop in major seaports
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publishing centers
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what were the leading publishing towns in the 1820s
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New York and Philadelphia
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what did the US have few jobs in before the civil war
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professional authors
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what was the most popular magazine of the 1820s and published in Philadelphia
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Graham's and Godney's Lady's Book
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what is often referred to as the nation's " declaration of cultural independence"
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The American Scholar
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emerison's attacks on the Unitarian and other established churches helped term what
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transcendentalist movement
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the conviction that american literature and culture were not living up to their revolutionary or democratic promises
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reformism
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two of the most prominent antislavery writers who supported the temperance movement
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sigourney and stowe
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best selling novel of the antebellum period
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Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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sixteenth president of the United States and one that preserved the Union and ended slavery
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Abraham Lincoln
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one of the era's great prose stylists
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Abraham Lincoln
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born on February 12, 1809, in a cabin in hardin county, Kentucky
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Lincoln
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what happened a little more than a month after Lincoln's inauguration
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civil war began
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who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth
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took a leading role in the passage of the 13th amendment
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Abraham Lincoln
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what were two of Lincoln's most famous speeches
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Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural
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by the time of death was thought of as the most influential African American leader of the 19th century and as one of the greatest orators of the age
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Frederick Douglass
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declared that blacks could never becom citizens of the US
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Dred Scott case
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born into slavery in February 1818 at Holme Hill Farm in Talbot Country
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Douglass
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where is Ralph Emerson from
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Boston
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what was Emerson's first book that he published anonymously
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Nature
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who valued individual rights and believed in the individual mind as divine
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Emerson
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what was Emerson's most famous essay
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Self- Reliance
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where was Thoreau born
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Concord, Massachusetts
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who did Thoreau meet in 1836 that became the most important influence and friendship in his life
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Ralph Emerson
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became a world-famous essay on the relationship of the individual to the state
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resistance to civil government
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emerged as one of the most outspoken abolitionists in the Concord era
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Henry Thoreau
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by middle of 20th century what happened to thoreau reputation
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equaled or surpassed Emerson
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what did Thoreau describe "Walden" as
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experiment
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most beloved American poet of the nineteenth century
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Henry Longfellow
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when did Longfellow become the first American born poet enshrined in Westminster Abbey's famed Poet's Corner
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in 1882
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where was Longfellow born
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Portland, Maine
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Where did Longfellow's first published poem appear
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in Portland Gazette
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when did Longfellow's great commerical breakthrough happen
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with publication of Evangeline
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by the 1870s what was Longfellow's annual income from his writing
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15000
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what was the rhyme scheme for the day is done by longfellow
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every 2nd and 4th line rhymed
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what is the meter pattern for the day is done by longfellow
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stresses 3 syllables but moves place in each line
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what is the meter pattern in from evangeline, a tale of acadie by longfellow
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dactactyl hexometer
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what does the rhyme scheme follow in hawthorne by longfellow
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a,b,a,b
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born on May 31, 1819 in West Hill, Long Island NY
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Walt Whitman
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what introduced is use of "catologs" that were to become a hallmark for his style
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poems absence of standard verse and stanza patterns
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what did Walt Whitman begin to do in third edition of Leaves of Grass
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group his poems thematically
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what was Walt Whitman's famous elegy from the murdered president
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O Captain! My Captain! and " When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
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what did Walt Whitman become dependent on after government ceased to hold his clerk job
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dependent on occasional publication in newspapers and magazines
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when did Whitman have his greatest sales from his poems
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in 1882
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died in Camden on march 26, 1892 and buired in harliegh cemetry
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walt whitman
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born on July 4, 1804 in Salem Masschusetts
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Hawthorne
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published his first novel Fanshawe in 1828
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Hawthorne
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married to Sohphia Peabody in 1842
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hawthorne
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died in his sleep at a hotel in May 1864 and buried in Sleepy hollow Cemetery at Concord
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Hawthorne
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the most meldramatic of any of the major American writers of his generation
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Edgar Allen Poe
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born in Boston on January 19, 1809 whose father deserted the family
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Edgar Allen Poe
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John Allen and his wife Frances took him in
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Edgar Allen Poe
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from his 21 year to his death in his 40 year was spent in four literary centers: Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York
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Edgar Allen Poe
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when was poe's most successful year
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1845
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believed that poems and tales should be short enough to be read in one setting
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Edgar Allen Poe
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first american writer of the 19th century to achieve an international literary reputation
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Washington Irving
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became the 1st american who was able to support himself solely through his writing
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Washington Irving
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remained a lifelong bachelor
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Washington Irving
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born in New York City on April 3, 1783
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Washington Irving
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recognized as one of the greatest American poets
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Emily Dickinson
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born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts
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Emily Dickinson
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lived most of her life in spacious house in Amherst called the Homestead
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Emily Dickinson
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are the 19th century poets who exerted the greatest influence on American poetry to come
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Dickinson and Whitman
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author of the best-selling novel of the pre- Civil War period
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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born in Litchfield, Connecticut
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote the most effective antislavery novel in the nation's history
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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