American Lit. I Midterms

Anne Bradstreet published “The Tenth Muse” in the year _____

1650

The First Great Awakening took place in the _____.

1730s-40s

The Second Great Awakening took place in the _____.

1790s - 1830s

When did Phillis Wheatley publish “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”?

1773

When did Ralph Waldo Emerson publish “Nature”?

1836

When and what was the original Fugitive Slave Act?

1850, penalized officials who did not arrest accused fugitive slaves.

When was the Indian Removal Act, and what was its result?

1830, forced Indigenous tribes from their land for American expansion.

When was the court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, and what was its outcome?

1823, decided that Indian tribes had no claim to and could not sell American land

What was included as part of the Compromise of 1850?

A bill which mandated citizens to aid in the apprehension of accused fugitive slaves.

When did the Slave Trade Act abolish the slave trade in the British Empire? Who was the driving force behind this law?

1807, William Wilberforce

Nathaniel Hawthorne had an intense intellectual friendship with what other author on our syllabus?

Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

Who wrote Franklin Pierce’s campaign biography?

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

Whose great-great-grandfather presided over the Salem witch trials?

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

How many Africans endured the Middle Passage, and how many were brought directly to British North America?

10-14 million total, 400k to NA

What job did Nathaniel Hawthorne lose when Zachary Taylor was elected president?

Surveyor of the Port at the Salem Custom House

What technologies revolutionized printing and communications during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Any of the following: Steam Press, Rotary Press, Electric Telegraph

What government position did Frederick Douglass hold after the Civil War?

Ambassador of Haiti

What two causes did The North Star claim its allegiance to in its motto?

“Right is of no sex; truth is of no color.”

What is the genre of Hope Leslie?

Frontier Romance

What is the genre of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?

Slave Narrative

What is Transcendentalism?

A 19th-century American movement emphasizing individual intuition, self-reliance, spirituality, and oneness with nature.