Semster 1 Final Flashcards
(83 cards)
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Winthrop is associated with which era?
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Puritanism
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Ben Franklin is associated with which era?
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Enlightenment
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Herman Melville is associated with which era?
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Dark Transcendentalism
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Edgar Allen Poe is associated with which era?
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Romanticism
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Thomas Paine is associated with which era?
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Enlightenment
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In 1527, Henry VIII infamously married who after the Vatican denied his request for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon?
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Anne Boleyn
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In response to the Vatican’s unfavorable decision, Henry VIII did what?
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Established the Anglican Church
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During Queen Mary’s reign, which individual famously nailed “theses” to a door?
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Martin Luther
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Which person within the Protestant camp stressed the ideas of predestination, grace, and the “Elect”
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John Calvin
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Complete the following phrase, “the never sets in the..”
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English Empire
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During the period of American colonization, the English gave what to May types of settlements?
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Charters
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Where did John Smith land in America?
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Plymouth
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This movement within Protestantism is based off of the idea that “faith alone saves”
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Calvinism
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Identify the author: walden
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Thoreau
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Identify the author: self-reliance
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Emerson
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Identify the author: rappaccinis daughter
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Hawthorne
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Identify the author: I sing the body electric
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Whitman
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Identify the author: the legend of sleepy hallow
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Irving
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Who said “simplicity, simplicity, simplicity…”
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Thoreau
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The single word uttered by the raven in Poe’s poem of the same name
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“Nevermore”
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The name of Rappaccinis daughter
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Beatrice
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One of the two ancient civilizations that influenced the romantics
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Rome
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Gangly teacher who meets the headless horseman
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Ichabod Crane
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Massachusetts town that exhibited a “genius cluster”
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Concord, Mass
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Whitman's continuously revised life work
Leaves of grass
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The brand of romanticism typified by Poe
Dark romanticism
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Roderick's best childhood friend
Narrator
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The school teacher and singing master in one of Irving's work
Ichabod crane
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"Madman! I tell you that she his stands without that door"
The fall of the house of usher
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"The virtue in most request is conformity, whoso be a man must be a non conformist"
Emerson, self-reliance
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Henry VIII
Married Katherine of Aragon
Some colonization in America
Popular opinion in England was against the church (the church taxed)
Wanted a son, asked for a divorce (denied)
Married Anne Boleyn
Gave people a financial interest to support the king
Kept ceremonies & traditions
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Matters involving Catholicism and Queen Mary
Thousands of Protestants killed and persecuted
Reformation in English church mirrored Protestant reformation
Luther's message: god is found through the bible, which a believer can read
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John Calvin
Predestination
Grace
Elect
Covenant
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Predestination
Ones fate is already determine for him
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Grace
The quality needed to go to heaven
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Elect
Those who were saved
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In the 17th century American Calvinists were called
Puritans
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Migration to the new world
English monarchs gave charters to several different types of settlements: religious, economic, political
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Reasons to go to the new world
Poverty
Overcrowded island
Debt/jail terms
Religious "freedom"
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Thoreau is associated with which era?
Transcendentalism
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Emerson wrote
Nature and self-reliance
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Thoreau wrote
Walden and civil disobedience
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Hawthorne wrote
Ethan brand, young goodman brown, and rappaccinis daughter
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Irving wrote
Rip van winkle, and legend of sleepy hollow
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Melville wrote
Moby dick
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Poe wrote
The fall of the house of usher, Annabelle lee, the raven, and
sonnet-to science
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Whitman wrote
Song of myself and the sleepers
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Brook farm
The attempt at a Utopian society with transcendentalist influences
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Transcendentalism
Philosophy based on the doctrine that the principles or reality are to be discovered by the study of the process of thought, or philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above empirical
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Transcendental fundamental beliefs
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Nature is fundamentally good
Everything is alive, related, and meaningful
Individualism
Intuition
Nature is symbolic
Over soul
Everyone can experience god first hand
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Transcendentalism principal
Structure of the universe literally duplicated the structure of the individual self and that all knowledge begins with self knowledge
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Transcendentalism is a form of what?
Romanticism
| - philosophy focusing on intuition, imagination, nature and self
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Transcendentalism connected to the revolution
Occurred during the same age
Lessened the focus on individuals, making them parts of machines (encouraged people to break away from the crowd and develop own identities)
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Transcendentalism was a response to
Enlightenment
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Goodman brown
- Stroy's protagonist
- Good Christian
- Takes pride in family history
- Curiosity lead him to accept invitation from mysterious stranger to observe an evil ceremony which shocks and disillusions him
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Faith
Goodman browns wife
| Young, beautiful, trusting
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The old man/devil
Tempts goodman brown into the forest
| Turns good men to evil
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Goody close
Citizen of Salem who reveals herself to be a witch to goodman brown
Christian woman who helps people learn the bible
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Dr. Giacomo Rappaccini
Renowned but sinister Padua physician who cultivates highly poisonous plants in his garden with the help of his daughter. Attempts to extract medical cures from the plants
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Giovanni Guasconti
Handsome Neapolitan student enrolled in university of Padua. Lives in an apartment overlooking rappaccinis garden and makes acquaintance with his daughter (whose powers fascinate him)
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Beatrice Rappaccini
Daughter of Dr. Rappaccini whose been exposed to toxins.. She becomes poisonous killing insects. Lives a life of isolation
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Roderick usher
Owner of the mansion and last male in the usher line. Roderick functions as a doppelgänger for his twin sister. He represents her mind and body and suffers from the mental counterpart of her illness
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Madeline usher
Roderick's twin sister and visiting of an illness
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Baltus Van Trassel
A thieving & contested farmer, father of Katrina, who is perfectly happy within the confines of his farm
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Brom Van Brunt
Ichabod cranes biggest rival in the fight for Katrina's hand. He is boisterous, burley, and the hero of the area known for his heroics and great strengths (Brom Bones). Skilled at horseback. Mischievous. Motivated by goodwill. One in disguise of headless horseman
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Ichabod Crane
Goes to sleepy hollow to work has a school teacher. Tall & thin & singer. Interested in ghost stories. Meets the headless horseman.
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Katrina Van Tassel
Daughter of wealthy farmer Balt. 18, beautiful, rich. Flirt. Student of Ichabod
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Rip Van Winkle
Wanders off into the mountains and meets strange men (protagonist)
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Wolf
Rips dog
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Deism
~ Values progress: from religion to science
~ America is becoming civilized; history moves not towards gods millennium but human progress resting on individual character and energy
~ deduced existence of god from the universe! not the bible
~ human are naturally good, no original sin
~ harmonious universe and benevolent
~ clockmaker god, everything operates under rules
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Ben Franklin represents
The spirit of enlightenment
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Identify the author: what is an American?
De Crèvecoeur
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Identify the author: a model of Christian charity
John Winthrop
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Identify the author: of Plymouth plantation
William Bradford
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Identify the author: the prologue, to my dear and living husband, verses upon the burning of our house
Anne Bradstreet
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"My mind is my own church"
Age of reason (enlightenment)
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“. . . [T]here is nothing between you and Hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up”?
Jonathon Edwards, Puritanism (Calvinism/the great awakening)
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Identify the author: sinners
Jonathan Edwards
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Identify the author: thanatopsis
Bryant
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Jonathan Edwards
~ said we should know the world by the five senses
~ said true belief is something we feel! not comprehend intellectually
~ accepted traditional Calvinist teachings
~ follower of Cotton Mather who said the winds were moved by angel wings
~ died of smallpox, attempting to show the benefits of science
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Jonathan Edwards' purpose
To make Puritanism viable for the 18th C America
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Who wrote “in the Plaine style, with singular regard unto the simple truth in all things”?
Bradford, Puritanism
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The Great Awakening
Small Puritan/Calvinist reform movement beginning as a response to the Enlightenment
