Key Words And Terms

Question 1

Physiognomy

Answer 1

Study of faces to try and identify a criminal look

Question 2

Bildungsroman

Answer 2

Coming of age novel with a young character that progresses to a grown adult

Question 3

Homogenous

Answer 3

Treatment of a group as a singular - no individualism

Question 4

Protean figure

Answer 4

An adaptable, constantly changing figure

Question 5

Discourse, narrative

Answer 5

Typical dialogue or belief of the time

Question 6

Prelapsarian

Answer 6

Paradise before the fall

Question 7

Race context

Answer 7

• Alexander Stephens’ cornerstone speech: black people are ‘the granite’ society is built on, ‘subordination is his place’, ‘it is best for both races’
• Josiah Nott (pseudoscientist) - black people are ‘biologically inferior’
• John C Calhoun said it was for the ‘positive good’

Question 8

Religion context

Answer 8

• the curse of Canaan used to justify slavery ‘suffering and slavery of the negro race was the consequence of the curse’
• Fredrick Douglass said he ‘hated the corrupt, slave holding, women whipping and hypocritical Christianity of this land’

Question 9

American exceptionalism

Answer 9

The belief that America was the land ‘chosen by god’ and had a ‘divine purpose’ to influence and lead the rest of the world

Question 10

The Declaration of Independence

Answer 10

• a decent respect to the opinions of mankind
  -all men are created equal
• unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it (the government)
• it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government