Untitled Flashcards Set

Benjamin Franklin

originally wrote Poor Richard almanack

-       Used pen name other than his, Richard sanders

-       Sanders saw a guy named Father Abraham

Franklins autobiography

-       Epistolary technique: uses letters or diaries to tell stories

Theism: God is revealed through the bible and acts in our life through prayer

Deism God is created through nature, believe that God is not a part of our lives. Clock maker

Junto, a club name for the guys he hangout with

Two quotes you might see are the one of him being a deist and one of the libraries

De Crevenooer  

Wrote Letters from an American farmer

Wrote book in English then made another in French

-       Wrote England version in favor of the British

-       France version character was in favor of the rebels

Torries: supported the monarchy

Whigs: wanted independence

American Adam: new independent, self-reliant man

Melting pot: idea where diverse backgrounds melt together to make a new American identity

Thomas pain:

Wrote pamphlets- short works about a specific subject, cheap easy to produce, and can be written anonymously

Common sense: first pamphlet he wrote

-       Idea of exaggerating the problem in the country

Crisis number one

-       Was read to Washington troops to help inspire them to victory

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the declaration of independence

-       Idea of natural rights, that God gave us our natural rights

Wrote the Virginia statute for religious freedom

Founder of the university of Virginia

Philip Freneau

-       Known as the Poet of American Revolution

The Indian burial ground

-       Describes the natives believe in an active after life. They don’t lie down but sit

-       Show how America has history even if by native

Romanticism- deals with feelings and imagination

Philis Wheatly

Wrote: on being brought from Africa to America

-       Talks about how it was mercy that brought to known about God and how black people go to heaven too

Sir Walter Scott

Wrote first historical novel: Waverly

Washington Irving

First American man of letters

Pen manes used: Jeffery crayon wrote the sketch book, Deidrick knickerbocker wrote Legend of Sleepy hollow and Rip Van Winkle, Brom probably told about the legend of sleepy hollow

The Sketch book: collection of stories

-       Rip Van winkle

o   Described as a lazy person, went to mountains, helped a few short men, then fell asleep for 20 years. When going to the tavern where he used to hangout in, he saw the image of what king George was is now George Washington.

-       Legend of sleepy hollow

o   Caricature: execration of humor of Somone

Cooper

Slaughter of the pigeons or Pioneers

Wrote social/culture commentary

Natty bumppo: main character who live with natives

-       Also known as Leather Stocking

-       Leather stocking would later become a series written