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What did Adams tell his wife he would rather be doing during the Revolutionary War?

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studying art in Europe

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What did Adams tell his wife it was his duty to devote himself to?

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Science of Government

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What did Adams say his sons would have the freedom to study?

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Math, Philosophy, Commerce, Agriculture

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What did Adams hope his grandchildren would be able to study? (7)

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Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, Porcelain

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When did the distinction between aesthetic and pragmatic literature come about?

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second half of the nineteenth century

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What was aesthetic literature called?

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belles lettres

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What quote is Sydney Smith credited with?

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“In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?”

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What nationality was Sydney Smith?

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British

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What three people claimed that the US had no literature?

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Sydney Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harriet Martineau

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Who defended Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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Herman Melville

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Who said “Shakespeares are this day being born on the banks of the Ohio?”

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Herman Melville

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Why were British books cheap to publish in the US?

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No international copyright laws

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Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

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Crevecoeur

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What word does Crevecoeur use to describe America?

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asylum

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What was Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography called?

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Autobiogrpahy

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What style did Common Sense use?

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plain argument

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Who wrote Ragged Dick?

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Horatio Alger

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When was Ragged Dick published?

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1868

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What book is considered the apotheosis of the idea of meritocracy?

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Ragged Dick

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Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Who directed Citizen Kane?

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Orson Welle

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Who directed The Wolf of Wall Street?

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Martin Scorsese

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What four novels and movies that emphasize meritocracy are mentioned in the guide?

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Ragged Dick, The Great Gatsby, Citizen Kane, The Wolf of Wall Street

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What medieval author did the British identify with?

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Chaucer

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What two ancient authors did the British identify with?
Homer and Virgil
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What did British writers look to for inspiration for their poems, plays, and novels?
human antiquities and ruins
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Who wrote The Sketch-Book?
Washington Irving
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What is the name of the main character in The Sketch Book?
Geoffrey Crayon
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Where are most of the sketches and tales in The Sketch Book from?
Great Britain
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What four tales and sketches did Irving write about America?
Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Traits of Indian Character, Philip of Pokanoket
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What two tales from The Sketch-Book are considered American classics?
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Where are Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow set?
Catskill Mountains along the Hudson River
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What are the names of the two sketches from The Sketch-Book that emphasize the American Indian?
The Traits of Indian Character, Philip of Pokanoket
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What tribe and war are a part of A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson?
King Philip's War, Narragansett tribe
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Who is famous for using the Mohegan nation as source material?
James Fenimore Cooper
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What character from the Mohegan nation features in four of five of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales?
Chingachgook
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What is the title of one of the Leatherstocking Tales?
The Last of the Mohicans
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What did Jefferson say was causing a declining indigenous population in Notes on the State of Virginia?
declining birth rate
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Who wrote the poem "The Prairies"?
William Cullen Bryant
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When was The Prairies published?
1834
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What civilization does Bryant compare the American Indian to in The Prairies?
Greeks
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What topic became important in American politics in the 1830s related to The Prairies?
vanishing Indian myth
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What three eastern tribes were removed from their land in the 1830s?
Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee
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What nation protested their removal in the Supreme Court against Georgia?
Cherokee
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What act removed all American tribes east of the Mississippi River?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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What nation is associated with the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
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Who created the "Join, or Die" cartoon?
Benjamin Franklin
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What religion was associated with New England?
Calvinism
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What was unique about Pennsylvania?
largely non-English
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In what five states was slavery abolished following the Constitutional Convention in 1789?
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania
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In what eight states was slavery legal following the Constitutional Convention in 1789?
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
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What three people wrote the Federalist Papers?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John jay
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What is a codex?
"A complete work or book"
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Where were most of the Federalist Papers published?
New York
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Who wrote "Columbia?"
Timothy Dwight
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What does "Columbia" (Dwight) anticipate?
spread of American empire
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What is one of the first anthologies to include verse by American writers that is mentioned in the guide?
The Beauties of Poetry
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Where was The Beauties of Poetry published (and when)?
Philadelphia, 1791
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Who published The Beauties of Poetry?
Mathew Carey
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What three British writers are include in The Beauties of Poetry?
Alexander Pope, Oliver Goldsmith, James Thomson
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What four American poets mentioned by name are included in The Beauties of Poetry?
Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow
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Where did Dwight, Humphreys, Trumbull and Barlow come from?
Connecticut
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What were Dwight's two occupations?
minister and president of Yale
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What occupation is Humphreys best known for?
coloner
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What is Trumbull best known for?
painter
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What is Barlow's best known occupation?
diplomat
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Who was the author of The Columbiad?
Joel Barlow
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For how long did Barlow work on the Columbiad, and when was it published?
two decades, 1807
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What poem was marketed as an American epic in the model of homer and Virgil?
The Columbiad
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What four poets were called the Connecticut wits?
Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow
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Were the Connecticut Wits supportive of or against the the constitution?
supportive
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What four people wrote "The Anarchiad?"
Barlow, Humphreys, Trumbull, and Lemuel Hopkins
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What is The Anarchiad?
mock epic
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What did the Anarchiad condemn?
Articles of Confederation
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What three states are in The Anarchiad?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
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What did The Anarchiad make a case for?
stronger federal government
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Who was often called the Poet of the American Revolution?
Philip Freneau
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What poem is Freneau known for about his experiences during the Revolutionary War?
The British Prison Ship
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What founding father did Freneau go to school with?
James Madison
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What party was Freneau a part of?
Democratic-Republican
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What newspaper was Freneau the editor of?
National Gazette
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What two people did Freneau criticze as the editor of the National Gazette?
Washington and Hamilton's financial policies
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What is the Latin word that Revolution is derived from?
Revolutionem
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What does revolutionem mean?
the rotation of the planets
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Who first drafted the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
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Through what means did the Declaration spread throughout the colonines?
newspaper
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By 1775, how many pamphlets had been published in the colonies about relations with England?
400
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How many pamphlets had been pulbished in the colonies about relations with England by the end of the Revolution?
1600
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What eighteenth century historian highlighted the role of the "pen and press" in the revolution?
David Ramsay
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Where is the print revolution said to have begun (and when)?
London, end of the seventeenth century
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What five materials were initially printed as a part of the print revolution/
books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, broadsides
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Between 1763 and 1775, the number of American newspapers _____
doubled
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Between 1775 and 1790, the number of American newspapers _____
doubled
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What federal act helped newspapers reach large geographic areas?
Postal Act of 1792
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Who notably praised the dissemination of literature in the US, despite his criticism of its quality?
Tocqueville
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What percentage of white men were. literate by the 1780s?
80
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What standard work in children's education, published in 1797, does Frederick Douglass describe in the guide?
Columbian Orator
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What even from Columbian Orator does Douglass describe?
master voluntary frees his slave
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What did Douglass notably link freedom to in the guide?
literacy
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Until what year did the Constitution allow the US to participate in global slave trade?
1808

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