Final Study Guide -

When did Anne Bradstreet publish The Tenth Muse?
When was the First Great Awakening?
When was the Second Great Awakening?
When did Phillis Wheatley publish Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral?
When did Ralph Waldo Emerson publish Nature?
When and what was the original Fugitive Slave Act?
When was the Indian Removal Act, and what was its result?
When was the court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, and what was its outcome?
When and what was the Missouri Compromise?
When did the Slave Trade Act abolish the slave trade in the British Empire? Who was the driving force behind this law?
Nathaniel Hawthorne had an intense intellectual friendship with what other author on our syllabus?
Who wrote Franklin Pierce’s campaign biography?
Whose great-great-grandfather presided over the Salem witch trials?
How many Africans endured the Middle Passage, and how many were brought directly to British North America?
What job did Hawthorne lose when Zachary Taylor was elected president?
What technologies revolutionized printing and communications during the first half of the nineteenth century?
What government position did Frederick Douglass hold after the Civil War?
What two causes did The North Star claim its allegiance to in its motto?
What is the genre of Hope Leslie?
What is the genre of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
What is Transcendentalism?
What utopian community did Nathaniel Hawthorne live in for a time?
Who was the first director of the Women’s Prison Association?
What did the Thoreau family manufacture?
Why was Thoreau fired from his first teaching job?
What trade did Thoreau learn to pay his bills after he stopped teaching?
What was the title of Thoreau’s first book?
Immigrants from which country built many of the railroads in New England?
Immigrants from which country built many of the railroads on the West coast?
What happened to Melville on his various sea voyages?
Which of the authors we’ve read declared bankruptcy?
What was the genre of Omoo and Typee?
Where did Melville work after his failure to make a living as a writer?
What were the key planks of the Free Labor political movement?
What job did Mark Twain hold before the outbreak of the Civil War?
What were Mark Twain’s first two major books?
Which of the authors we’ve read this semester worked in the newspaper industry?
What was the title of Walt Whitman’s major book of poetry (which went through several editions during his lifetime)?
Which of the authors we read this semester lived in Concord, MA?
Which poet that we read only published a handful of her poems during her lifetime?
What genre is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Define pastoral
Define epideictic rhetoric
Define Pragmatism (and know who wrote the 1907 book by that name)
Define palimpsest