final Flashcards
(40 cards)
A henpecked husband who loathes profitable labor
Rip van winkle
Rips cantankerous wife
Dame van winkle
Who was the last Mohican. With the coming colonies, natives Americans are dying out and killing the culture
Uncas
Loyalty and devotion to the nation.
Pride
Nationalism
Devotion to ones region. Holding the interest of the region over the countries need
Sectionalism
Westward expansion. They want the nation to be bigger
Manifest destiny
Thomas Jefferson bought from France. Doubled the size of America. Lewis and Clark.
Louisiana purchase
Invented the reaper-cotton
Cyrus McCormick
Invented the steam boat
Robert Fulton
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
They tried to keep a balance between slave and free states. They were worried the glance would be off when Missouri wanted to be a slave state but they make Maine a free state.
Missouri compromise
Repetition of vowel sounds within phrase or sentences
Assonance
Repetition of consonants with different vowel sounds
Consonance
Describing something which isn’t human as having human qualities
Personification
Exaggeration; used to create emphasis
Hyperbole
Born a slave in talbot county Maryland
Separated from his mother, Harriet Bailey, when he was still an infant.
Frederick Douglass
Skalp born by whites raised by Indians
Hawkeye
Born near Huntington Long Island New York
Worked as printers apprentice and school teacher
Lived in New Orleans 4 months
Songs of myself
Walt Whitman
Attended Harvard
Could of been a teacher.
Tutor, surveyor, pencil manufacturer
Handyman to Ralph Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Main character in “rappaccinis daughter”. Discovered Beatrice’s secret.
Giovanni
Rappacinis daughter.
Beatrice
Incidents of a slave girl.
Harriet Jacobs. Linda Brent.
Intellectual movement during the New England Renaissance. Particularly interested in the natural world and its relationship to humanity. believed that if they explored nature throughly they would come to know themselves and the universal trusts better. Thought that the human spirit is reflected in nature. All forms of being-God nature humanity- are spiritually untied through a shared universal soul
Transcendentalism
Leading transcendalist
Ralph Emerson and Henry David Thoreau