Midterm 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?