American Literature Colonial to 1800
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- The first writer in literature to ask, what is an American?
- De Crevecouer
- Those who argued against the ratification of the US Constitution
- Anti-Federalists
- "There is neither Jew nor Greek...bond nor free...male nor female..."
- Galatians 3:28
- Who wrote, "I desire you to Remember the ladies..."
- Abigail Adams
- The birthplace of Thomas Paine in 1737?
- Thetford
- "Among the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union..."
- James Madison
- The medieval Catholic theologian who argued that "all men are eligible to rule."
- Thomas Aquinas
- Who is the author of "These are the times that try men's souls?"
- Thomas Paine
- His Second Treatis on Civil Government (1690) expresses theory of natural rights.
- John Locke
- The primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Series of essays defending the US Constitution in NY newspapers in 1787-1788?
- Federalist Papers
- "What chance have Talents and Virtures in competition with Walth and Beauty?"
- John Adams
- Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson in 1743?
- Shadwell
- Date of Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, "The American Scholar."
- 31 August 1837
- Town where Lincoln worked as laborer, storekeeper, and postmaster?
- New Salem, IL
- Date of the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetary
- 1863
- Town where Henry David Thoreau grew up.
- Concord, MA
- Who wrote, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds?"
- Emerson [1627]
- Who lived at Walden Pond for two years, two months, and two days?
- Thoreau
- Begins with "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth..."
- Gettysburg Address
- Ends with the words, "With malice towards none; and charity for all..."
- Second Inaugural
- The source of, "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately."
- Walden
- Which work begins with quote, "That government is best with governs least?"
- Resistance to Civil Government by Thoreau
- Which work says,"Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist?
- Self-realiance
- Who said, "Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people..."?
- Chief Seattle
- Person or entity that is authoritative or "Valid in a gien society" (Gellner)
- Legitimacy
- Saw God and religion as a "consolation serving economic interests."
- Karl Marx
- Date of Copernicus's work Revolutionibus on a sun-centered solar system.
- 1543
- The date of the French Revolution
- 1789
- Name of "A group formed around a body of 'deviant knowldege'" (Berger)
- Cognitive minority
- This person saw religion as a neurosis, "an infantile delusion."
- Sigmund Freud
- Who claimed that "All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds?"
- Gottfried Leibnitz
- Historian's task "simply to show how it really was" - wie es eigenlich gewesen.
- Leopold con Ranke
- "All information is within reach.... every problem has become capable of solution."
- Lord Acton
- An American historian who said, "Facts donot exist until the historian creates them.
- Carl Becker
- "Knowledge of the past has come down through one or more human minds.
- Sir George Clark
- "Accidental truths of history can never become the proof of the necessary truths of reason."
- Gotthold Lessing
- Date of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a seminal work of science.
- 1859
- This man published one of the founding works of modern science, Principia, in 1687
- Sir Isaac Newton
- An Italian philosopher and critic who said that "All history is contemporary."
- Benedetto Croce
- “I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this virtue are talents….In general they will elect the good and wise. In some instances, wealth may corrupt, and birth blind them; but not in sufficient degree to endang
- An excerpt from a letter to John Adams from Thomas Jefferson debating aristocracy and meritocracy.
- “Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. [931]
- An excerpt from Letters from An American Farmer by de Crevecouer regarding what an American is.
- “Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mah
- From The Age of Reason, Chapter II Of Missions and Revelations by Thomas Paine regarding Revelation being only a revelation to those first told it – everything else told to us is hearsay. Paine’s questioning of religion.
- "Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other...The prayers of both could not be answered - that of neither has been an
- An excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural address to the people regarding the blacks in America
- "Do not put such unlimited pwer into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could." [979]
- From a letter by Abigail Adams to her husband, John. She was urging John to Remeber the ladies.
- "I learned this, at least, by my experiment...In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty,nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the
- An excerpt from Walden by Thoreau. This work attempts to lift readers by exhilarating self-knowledge...a "subtle and suggestive work"
- "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has for you: the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcenden
- From Self-Reliance by Emerson. This piece urges readers to rely on themselves; it was the spirit of the age.
- pg 113 - 124
- Spain, Christopher Columbus
- pg 132-138
- Turner, The significance of the american frontier
- pg 214-224
- New france, Samuel Champlain, the voyages of samual chaplain
- "The next day we entered...
- Samual Champlain
- pg 645-689
- Elizabeth Ashbridge Some Account of the fore part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
- pg 1578-1584
- Emerson, Nature
- pg 1638-1641
- Emerson, The Poet
- pg 1735-1763
- Thoreau Res. to civil government
- pg 1758-1763
- Thoreau Walden
- 2472- 2485
- Poe the fall of the house of usher
- 2502-2514
- Poe the puloined letter
- 2539-2542
- poe the raven
- 2545-2546
- poe annabel lee
- 2937-2940
- whitman songs of myself
- 3050-3053
- dickinson...her poetry
- The accidental trueths of history can never become the proof of the necessary truths of reason
- lessing
- all is for the best inthis best of al possible worlds
- leibnitz
- whatever is is right
- pope
- ultimate history we cannot have in this generation, but we can dispose of conventional history..now that all info is with rach, and every problem has become capable of solution
- lord acton
- historians of a later generation do not look forward to any prospect . they expect their work to be superseded again and again...they consider tha tknowledge of th past has come down through one or more human minds...cannot consists of elemental and impe
- sir george clark
- contemporary history
- croce
- facts do not exist till historian creates them
- becker
- story
- narrative of events in their time sequence
- plot
- phases of action that are linked by relationships
- setting
- locaion, occupations, time period
- character
- idea of the moral constitution of the human personality
- conflict
- struggle against nature, against another, society,
- legitimacy
- Gellner
- cognitive minority
- berger