Literature Flashcards
John Adams wrote his wife that he
studied politics and war so that his
sons could study these four practical
subjects.
math, philosophy,
commerce, algebra
John Adams wrote his wife that he
studied politics and war so that these
relations could study painting, poetry,
and music.
grandsons
We generally consider works
classified as literature to have this
type of purpose.
aesthetic
Before the late nineteenth century,
aesthetic literature fell into this
category.
belles lettres
Europeans often mocked the United
States for being slow to develop this
type of culture.
literary and artistic
Herman Melville defended this early
American writer by saying that
Shakespeares were being born on
the banks
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American booksellers could easily
pirate British books because of the
lack of this type of legal protection.
international copyright
This phrase expresses the belief that
the United States is special and
unique.
American Exceptionalism
This writer called America an
“asylum” from European tyranny and
aristocracy.
J. Hector St. John de
Crèvecoeur
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
particularly praised Americans for
their ability to reach this status.
property-owning
This group of religious immigrants
developed a vision of themselves as
exceptional.
Puritans
Early American literature tended to
emphasize these two ideals.
democracy and freedom
This man wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Common Sense identifies “plain
argument” with this system of
government.
democracy
This word in the first sentence of the
Declaration of Independence recalls
Thomas Paine’s argument for natural
rights.
“self-evident”
This man’s Autobiography
encouraged the idea that anyone can
achieve success through hard work.
Benjamin Franklin
This writer wrote Ragged Dick.
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger published Ragged Dick
n this year.
1868
The Great Gatsby, Citizen Kane, and
The Wolf of Wall Street all explore
the American theme of transcending
this condition.
poverty
British writers drew from the literature
of these two ancient civilizations to
establish their national cultural
identity.
Greece and Rome
This British novelistic form had plots
set in classical or medieval ruins.
gothic
Early American writers felt that they
lacked these types of settings
compared to Europeans.
classical or medieval ruins
This writer wrote The Sketch-Book.
Washington Irving
This man travels to Europe for
aesthetic reasons in The Sketch-
Book.
Geoffrey Crayon
The Sketch-Book’s scenes primarily
take place in this location.
Great Britain
“Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow” take place in the
upper part of this state.
New York
“Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow” take place in these
mountains.
Catskills
Immigrants from this nation had
settled in the Catskills before
Washington Irving set his stories
there.
the Netherlands
White American authors
paradoxically used these people in
their national literature.
American Indians
This best-selling early American
book told the story of a white
woman’s capture by Narragansett
people.
A Narrative of the Captivity
and Restoration of Mary
Rowlandson
Rowlandson portrayed American
Indians as having these three
characteristics in her captivity
narrative.
savageness, inhumanness,
and blood-thirstiness
White American writers romanticized
American Indians by describing them
as having these three characteristics.
stoicism, courage, and
eloquence
This literature trope presented
American Indians as having a kind of
American nobility and antiquity.
noble savage
This author is most famous for
turning American Indians into source
materials for his works.
James Fenimore Cooper
This American Indian chief is present
in all but one of James Fenimore
Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales.
Chingachgook
James Fenimore Cooper often
turned to this American Indian tribe
for source material.
the Mohegan nation
James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last
of the Mohicans is a prime example
of this literary trope.
the myth of the vanishing
Indian
In this book, Thomas Jefferson
claimed that American Indian
populations were declining due to a
lower birth rate.
Notes on the State of
Virginia
Mary Rowlandson’s captivity
narrative takes place during this war.
King Phillip’s War
In William Cullen Bryant’s Prairies,
this group of people vanquishes the
hunter.
white Americans
William Cullen Bryant’s Prairies
compares the early mound builders
to this ancient civilization.
Greece
William Cullen Bryant’s Prairies was
published in this year.
1834
In the early 1830s, the American
government authorized the removal
of eastern tribes such as these three.
the Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee
The Cherokee Nation fought this
state in the Supreme Court.
the State of Georgia
This act removed all American Indian
tribes east of the Mississippi River.
the Indian Removal Act of
1830
The Trail of Tears involved the
forceful removal of this American
Indian group.
the Cherokee
The State of Ohio was founded in
this year.
1803
This man created the famous “Join,
or Die” cartoon.
Benjamin Franklin
People in early New England
predominantly followed this
Protestant branch.
Calvinism
People in early Pennsylvania
predominantly belonged to this
Protestant branch.
Quakerism
People in the southern colonies
predominately belonged to this
Protestant branch.
Anglicanism
The Constitutional Convention took
place in this year.
1789
After the Constitutional Convention,
these five states had abolished slave
labor.
New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, and Pennsylvania
The Constitution was drafted in the
summer of this year.
1787
This codex campaigned for the
Constitution’s ratification.
the Federalist Papers
These two men assisted Alexander
Hamilton in writing the Federalist
Papers.
James Madison and John
Jay
Most of the essays in the Federalist
Papers were published in this state.
New York
Alexander Hamilton lived in this
state.
New York
This author wrote “Columbia”.
Timothy Dwight
Timothy Dwight’s “Columbia” is an
ode to this allegorical figure.
Queen Colombia
The expansion of the United States
across North America resulted in
violence against these three groups.
American Indians, other
nations, and American
settlers
Timothy Dwight’s “Columbia”
appeared in this anthology.
The Beauties of Poetry
Matthew Carey’s The Beauties of
Poetry was published in this city.
Philadelphia
The first half of Matthew Carey’s The
Beauties of Poetry includes the work
of these three British writers.
Alexander Pope, Oliver
Goldsmith, and James
Thompson
The second half of Matthew Carey’s
The Beauties of Poetry is dedicated
to writers from this country.
the United States
The second half of Matthew Carey’s
The Beauties of Poetry includes the
work of these four authors.
Timothy Dwight, David
Humphreys, John Trumbull,
and Joel Barlow
These four poets were called the
“Connecticut Wits” or “Hartford Wits.”
Timothy Dwight, David
Humphreys, John Trumbull,
and Joel Barlow
Timothy Dwight served as president
of this university.
Yale
David Humphreys served as a
colonel in this war.
the American Revolution
These two men were the most prolific
of the “Connecticut Wits.”
Timothy Dwight and Joel
Barlow
This poem is the first epic poem
about the United States.
The Columbiad
Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad was
modeled after the works of these two
Greek and Roman authors.
Homer and Virgil
The Connecticut Wits were all
members of this political party.
the Federalist Party
These four authors worked together
to write The Anarchiad.
Joel Barlow, David
Humphreys, John Trumbull,
and Lemuel Hopkins
The Anarchiad condemned the
Articles of Confederation as causing
havoc in these three states.
Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island
This poet earned the nickname the
“Poet of the American Revolution.”
Philip Freneau
This Philip Freneau poem described
the author’s experiences as a
prisoner during the Revolutionary
War.
The British Prison Ship
Philip Freneau supported this
political party.
The Democratic-
Republicans
Thomas Jefferson appointed Philip
Freneau to be the editor of this
newspaper.
the National Gazette
“Revolution” is derived from this Latin
word, which refers to the rotation of
planets.
revolutionem
These three world-changing
technologies were invented in the
eighteenth century.
the steam engine, power
looms, and gas lighting
This American inventor played a key
role in the “Print Revolution.”
Benjamin Franklin
These two American scientists
played important roles in
industrializing the United States.
Benjamin Franklin and Eli
Whitney
This man drafted the Declaration of
Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
At the start of the Revolutionary War,
this many pamphlets about relations
with England circulated in America.
four hundred
By the end of the Revolutionary War,
the number of pamphlets in America
about relations with England had
increased by this multiple.
four
This historian said, “in establishing
American independence, the pen
and press had merit equal to that of
the sword.”
David Ramsey
The Print Revolution arose in this
city.
London
Technological advancements in
these three methods of
transportation allowed printed
materials to circulate more quickly
and cheaply.
roads, shipping, and
railroads
This act allowed newspapers to
move through the United States post
at reduced rates.
The Postal Act of 1792
This area of the United States had
the highest literacy rates.
New England
In the 1780s, about this percentage
of white men were literate in the
United States.
80 percent
These two groups of people in the
United States had very low literacy
rates.
women and enslaved
people
In his first autobiography, this man
described how he learned to read
and write despite prohibitions.
Frederick Douglass
The Colombian Orator was first
published in this year.
1797
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative
analyzes the relationship between
this skill and freedom.
literacy
The Constitution allowed the United
States to participate in the global
slave trade until this year.
1808
The Constitution allowed southern
states to count enslaved people as
this fraction of a person to calculate
congressional representation.
Three-fifths
This historian coined the term “The
American Paradox.”
Edmund Morgan
This French man witnessed the
British surrender in Yorktown
alongside George Washington.
Marquis de Lafayette
This man wrote the Declaration of
the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Marquis de Lafayette
The Storming of Bastille and the
establishment of the French National
Assembly took place in the summer
of this year.
1789
This founding father stayed with
Marquis de Lafayette in France and
helped him outline a plan for a new
republican France.
Thomas Jefferson
This phrase refers to the rise of the
radical Jacobins and the subsequent
violence in France.
the Reign of Terror
These two monarchs were killed
during the Reign of Terror.
Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette
This many people were killed during
the Reign of Terror.
seventeen thousand
Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man
is dedicated to this man.
Marquis de Lafayette
These two men were the most
prominent members of the Federalist
party.
George Washington and
Alexander Hamilton
This man was the figurehead of the
Democratic-Republican Party.
Thomas Jefferson
This political party arrested Thomas
Paine.
the Jacobin Party
Haiti originally had this name.
Saint-Domingue
Haiti was the largest producer of this
crop at the end of the eighteenth
century.
sugar
In the eighteenth century, Haiti held
this many enslaved Africans for
every one French colonist.
ten
This man emerged as the leader of
the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint Louverture
This nation was the first to abolish
slavery.
Haiti
This Federalist president
acknowledged Louverture as the
leader of a sovereign state.
John Adams
This Secretary of State supported
white plantation owners in Haiti.
Thomas Jefferson
This president revoked American
diplomatic recognition of Haiti.
Thomas Jefferson
The United States did not recognize
Haiti as a nation until this year.
1862
These five revolutions are important
to understanding Wieland.
scientific, print, American,
French, Haitian
This man is often called the United
States’ first “professional writer.”
Charles Brockden Brown
Brown is often considered one of the
first of this type of writer who was
born, educated, and published in the
United States.
belletristic
Brown was born to a family of this
Protestant branch.
Quakerism
Brown was born in this state.
Philadelphia
Brown’s paternal great grandfather
was one of the original founders of
this city.
Nottingham, Pennsylvania
Brown’s maternal grandfather had
this profession.
furniture maker
Brown’s father refused to swear an
oath of allegiance to the colonial
cause because he followed this
Protestant branch.
Quakerism
Brown’s father was arrested in the
winter of these two years.
1777-78
Brown had a secondary education at
this school.
Friends Latin School
Brown spent this many years in an
apprenticeship with a lawyer.
two
Brown’s family hoped he would end
up in this profession.
lawyer
This periodical essay series was
Brown’s first published work.
The Rhapsodist
Brown’s The Rhapsodist was
published in this year.
1789
Brown established this literary
society with his friends.
the Belles Lettres Club
This close friend of Brown wrote the
first biography of him.
William Dunlap
Dunlap and Brown were drawn to
this intellectual society in New York
City.
the Friendly Club
Brown and Dunlap lodged with this
fellow Friendly Club member in New
York.
Elihu Hubbard Smith
Elihu Hubbard Smith studied
medicine in Philadelphia with this
man.
Benjamin Rush
This book was Brown’s first. Alcuin:
A Dialogue
This novel was Brown’s first.
Wieland
Elihu Hubbard Smith died from this
disease.
yellow fever
From August to November of 1793,
this percent of Philadelphia’s
population died from yellow fever.
ten
Alcuin: A Dialogue features a debate
between a schoolmaster and woman
about this subject.
women’s rights
In 1798, Brown suffered a bout of
this disease, which lead to poor
health for the rest of his life.
yellow fever
Brown did not use the novel form
after this year.
1801
This novel is the first part of Arthur
Mervyn.
Ormund
Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormund
and Edgar Huntly take place in this
city.
Philadelphia
These two novels were Charles
Brockden Brown’s last.
Clara Howard and Jane
Talbot
From 1798 to 1801, Charles
Brockden Brown wrote this many
long novels.
seven
Brown married this woman in 1804.
Elizabeth Linn
Unlike Brown, Elizabeth Linn did not
belong to this Protestant Branch.
Quakerism
In 1803, Brown published two
pamphlets criticizing Thomas
Jefferson’s administration for not
keeping American access to this
port.
New Orleans
Western American exports to the
Caribbean and Europe originated
from this gulf.
the Gulf of Mexico
Brown launched this monthly
magazine in Philadelphia in 1803.
the Literary Magazine and
American Register
Brown edited the Literary Magazine
and American Register until this
year.
1807
After leaving the Literary Magazine
and American Register, Brown
launched this semi-yearly periodical.
American Register
Brown died from this disease.
tuberculosis
Brown died at this age.
thirty-nine
Nathaniel Hawthorne praised Brown
in this sketch.
The Hall of Fantasy
Hawthorne includes these four
European writers in The Hall of
Fantasy.
Homer, Dante, Cervantes,
and Shakespeare
This author wrote The Scarlet Letter
and The House of Seven Gables.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This author is often identified as the
predecessor to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Charles Brockden Brown
Brown died in February of this year.
1810
After Brown died, his wife gave most
of his letters to this man.
William Dunlap
One of the earliest novels may be
this book by Miguel de Cervantes.
Don Quixote
This book is usually identified as the
first novel in the English language.
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson
Crusoe
This author wrote Oroonoko, which
some scholars consider a proto-
novel.
Aphra Behn
This author wrote Gulliver’s Travels,
which some scholars consider a
proto-novel.
Jonathan Swift
This Spanish word translates to
“rogue.”
picaro
This type of novel features either a
seduction or a romance plot.
sentimental
This type of novel features a rogue
protagonist in a series of adventures.
picaresque
This type of novel features
characters encountering inexplicable
phenomena.
gothic
This novel by Horace Walpole is
subtitled “a Gothic Story” and is set
in an ancient castle.
The Castle of Otranto
This novel was said to be based on a
real man that lived on a deserted
island for many years.
Robinson Crusoe
Claims made by eighteenth-century
critics of novels recall criticisms of
this modern form of entertainment.
video games
This novel is a prime example of the
picaresque novel form.
Don Quixote
This Samuel Richardson book might
have been the first English novel.
Pamela
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is an
example of this form of novel.
epistolary
Brown writes that readers will
probably remember a real case
similar to the events in Wieland in
this section of the novel.
the “Advertisement”
Despite being fictional, this aspect of
novels was one of their selling points.
their realism
Critics of novels claimed young
people should be reading these five
types of books instead of novels.
histories, poetry,
philosophy, natural
science, and theology
This group of people made up a
large portion of novel readers.
women
Critics feared the effects of
sentimental romance novels on this
group of people.
young women
In this Samuel Richardson novel, the
woman refuses her employer and
seducer until marriage.
Pamela
In this Samuel Richardson novel, the
heroine is impregnated by her
seducer.
Clarissa
This name became a synonym for a
male predator or seducer in the
eighteenth century.
“Lovelace”
In this novel, the protagonist’s friends
warn her to be wary of a “second
Lovelace.”
The Coquette
This book was the first novel
Benjamin Franklin printed in his
shop.
Pamela
Many American versions of Clarissa
cut the novel from almost one-
thousand pages to just under this
number of pages.
two hundred
This character only succumbs to her
seducer Lovelace because her
parents demand that she marry an
elderly man.
Clarissa
Many readers read Clarissa as an
allegory for this nation’s predicament.
the United States
Clarissa became a metaphor for
people who were manipulated either
by cruel parents or this type of
person.
seductive predators
This former president announced,
“the people are Clarissa.”
John Adams
This character is the narrator and
protagonist of Wieland.
Clara
The title of Wieland refers to this
character.
Theodore Wieland
Clara says that she rarely sees this
character laugh.
Theodore Wieland
Father Wieland spent his youth with
a trader in this city.
London
Father Wieland became attracted to
this French Protestant sect.
the Camisards
Theodore Wieland marries this
character.
Catharine Wieland
Catharine and Theodore have this
many children together.
four
This character believes in God with
“calvinistic inspiration.”
Theodore Wieland
Clara describes this feature of
Carwin as being sweet, clear, and
impassioned.
his voice
Carwin possesses this extraordinary
skill.
ventriloquism (biloquism)
This character is the de facto fifth
child of Theodore and Catharine
Wieland.
Louisa Conway
Louisa and her mother lived in this
city before fleeing to America.
London
This character is Louisa’s father.
Major Stuart
This character is Clara’s maid. J
udith
After the murders, Thomas
Cambridge arrives from this country.
Ireland
Wieland takes place along this river.
the Schuylkill River
Father Wieland owned this farm near
Philadelphia.
Mettingen
This treaty promised a peaceful
existence between the Lenni-
Lanepes and Europeans.
the Treaty of Shackamaxon
These two leaders signed the Treaty
of Shackamaxon.
William Penn and
Tamanend
William Penn and
Tamanend
Father Wieland built a temple of this
diameter.
twelve feet
This many Tuscan columns surround
Father Wieland’s temple.
twelve
In Wieland, the main quartet installs
a bust of this great Roman orator in
the temple.
Cicero
In the eighteenth century, the
property that a woman brought into a
marriage would belong to this
person.
her husband
In Wieland, Clara owns these two
properties.
her house and the
summerhouse
In Wieland, Clara’s house has this
many stories.
two
Brown’s detail in describing buildings
in Wieland stems from his personal
interest in this subject.
architecture
Some of Brown’s manuscripts
contain these types of drawing.
architectural
While Wieland takes place in a
normal American home, Castle of
Otronto and The Mysteries of
Udolpho take place in this setting.
an ancient castle
Brown followed these two earlier
gothic novels in emphasizing
physical space.
Castle of Otronto and The
Mysteries of Udolpho
After the Haitian revolution, this
group of people fled the country and
came to America.
white French creoles
Many of the white French creoles
that fled Haiti settled in this city.
Philadelphia
Eighteenth-century scientists
believed that immigrants brought this
disease from Haiti.
yellow fever
In this Brown novel, the main
character is robbed, conned,
assaulted, and afflicted with yellow
fever after moving from rural
Pennsylvania to Philadelphia
Arthur Mervyn
In Notes on the State of Virginia,
Thomas Jefferson praises this group
of people as the “chosen people of
God.”
farmers
In Notes on the State of Virginia,
Thomas Jefferson compares these
places to bodily wounds.
urban places/cities
Clara’s ancestors are from this
eastern German province.
Saxony
In Wieland, the first inexplicable
phenomena occurs when Theodore
mysteriously hears the voice of this
character.
Catharine
In Wieland, Pleyel tries to convince
this character to go to Saxony with
him to get his large inheritance.
Theodore Wieland
In Wieland, Pleyel has romantic
interest in a woman from this city.
Leipzig
As Pleyel is trying to convince
Theodore to go to Saxony, they both
mysteriously hear the voice of this
character.
Catharine
In Wieland, when Clara is dreaming
in the summerhouse, she wakes
when a mysterious voice yells this
word.
hold
In Wieland, the summerhouse is
located next to this river.
the Schuylkill River
In Wieland, Pleyel had met Carwin in
this country before the events in the
novel.
Spain
In Wieland, Pleyel tells Clara that
Carwin had previously committed a
crime in this country.
Ireland
In Wieland, this character is so upset
by Pleyel’s accusations that she
faints.
Clara
In Wieland, this character murders
his wife and children.
Theodore Wieland
In Wieland, a crowd of people,
including this relative of Clara, stops
Theodore from killing Clara.
Mr. Hallet
In Wieland, Clara insists this
character is responsible for the
murders despite Theodore’s
confession.
Carwin
The final chapter of Wieland takes
place this many years after the main
events of the novel.
three
In the final chapter of Wieland, Clara
says she left Philadelphia for this city
in France.
Montpellier
In Wieland, Clara marries this man
. Pleyel
In Wieland, this man almost seduces
Louisa Conway’s mother into
infidelity.
Maxwell
In Wieland, this man saves Clara
from her brother.
Carwin
In Wieland, Carwin admits he wanted
to scare Clara because she seemed
to possess a great amount of this
quality.
bravery
In Wieland, when Theodore sees
Carwin ventriloquize the supernatural
voice, he commits this action.
suicide
In Wieland, Theodore insists that this
supernatural figure commanded him
to commit the murders.
God
In the final chapter of Wieland, Clara
compares these two villains of the
story.
Maxwell and Carwin
This form of novel is told in letters.
epistolary
Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and
Pamela were examples of these two
forms of novels.
epistolary and seduction
This type of novel usually features
the woman being seduced and dying,
or resisting seduction and marrying
the would-be villain.
seduction
This Hannah Webster Foster novel is
an epistolary novel that involves a
seduction plot.
Power of Sympathy
This William Hill Brown novel is an
epistolary novel that involves a
seduction plot.
The Coquette
This novel was the first best-selling
American novel.
Susanna Rowson’s
Charlotte Temple
Besides Clara, these three
characters take turns as narrators of
the novel.
Pleyel, Carwin, Wieland
Epistolary novels were very popular
during this century.
eighteenth century
Epistolary novels became less
popular during this century.
nineteenth century
One theory holds that epistolaries
are more immature than this type of
novel.
narrative
Brown’s last two novels take this
form.
epistolary
Brown chose to frame Wieland in
epistolary form to explore this theme.
communication
In Wieland, this man mistakenly
thinks Clara is in a sexual
relationship with Carwin.
Pleyel
In seduction novels, people respond
to women who have premarital sex
with these two reactions.
revulsion and castigation
Carwin calls the deception of this
man the “sweetest triumph” he ever
had.
Pleyel
This man attempted to have an
extramarital affair with Major Stuart’s
wife.
Maxwell
Major Stuart’s wife felt guilty about
her possible affair and fled to this
country as a result.
America
In Wieland, Clara calls these two
men the “authors” of the “evils” they
caused.
Carwin and Maxwell
Clara’s use of “authors” to describe
the evildoers in Wieland implies that
this writer could also be a seductive
author of evil.
Charles Brockden Brown
In the last sentence of Wieland,
Clara chides herself for not having
these two skills.
calmness and foresight
In Wieland, Clara depicts herself as
having more of this character trait
than an ordinary person when facing
terrors or dangers.
calmness/composure
This form of novel shows characters
that are presented with inexplicable
phenomena.
gothic
Brown’s novels influenced later
gothic writers such as these three
authors.
Mary Shelley, Nathanial
Hawthorne, and Edgar
Allen Poe
These two British gothic novelists
influenced Brown.
Horace Walpole and Ann
Radcliffe
Gothic novels from this country
present an explanation for the
phenomena the characters
experience.
Britain
To explain the mysterious
disembodied voices, Carwin
confessed that he had this skill.
biloquism
Clara assumed that this man tricked
Wieland into killing her family.
Carwin
This genre is the contemporary
descendant of gothic novels.
horror
This director directed the movie
Psycho.
Alfred Hitchcock
The movie Psycho adapted this
author’s novel.
Robert Bloch’s
This director directed the movie The
Shining.
Stanley Kubrick
The movie The Shining adapted this
author’s novel.
Stephen King
The movie Psycho was based on this
real serial killer.
Ed Gein
In Wieland, Brown referenced a well-
known case in which a man
performed this action after hearing a
voice commanding him to do so.
killed his family
This Stephen King novel has a very
similar plot to Wieland.
The Shining
Humans turned to science to explain
what before had been attributed to
God during this period.
the Age of Enlightenment
This term refers to the belief in a God
or divine power that controls the
universe.
theism
This philosophy asserts that human
sensory knowledge can apprehend
truth.
empiricism
During this period, evangelical fervor
swept colonial America.
the Great Awakening
In his Autobiography, Benjamin
Franklin identified himself as a
follower of this religion.
deism
This religion holds that God created
the universe but has not interfered
with it since creation.
deism
Clara’s father was a part of an
evangelical movement during this
time.
early eighteenth century
Benjamin Franklin discovered that
electricity is the same as this natural
phenomenon.
lightning
This amendment to the Constitution
explicitly separates the Church from
the state.
the first
Clara’s father was a part of this
French Protestant sect.
the Camissards
Benjamin Franklin was born into a
family that belonged to this
Protestant branch.
Calvinism
Benjamin Franklin was born in this
city.
Boston
Wieland had this original subtitle.
The Transformation
Clara’s father travels to North
America as a part of a global
movement to convert people from
these four continents.
North and South America,
Africa, and Asia
Clara suggests this possible scientific
explanation for her father’s death.
”
“the irregular expansion of
the fluid that imparts
warmth to our heart and
blood
Wieland follows this Protestant sect.
Calvinism
Pleyel uses this intellectual
philosophy to address inexplicable
phenomena.
empiricism
Wieland believes he is similar to this
Biblical prophet when he is
commanded to sacrifice his family for
God.
Abraham
Unlike Pleyel, Clara repeatedly
forgives this character despite his
repeated atrocities.
Wieland
Although Pleyel never attempts to
physically harm Clara, he does harm
her in this way.
socially
Through the mistakes of Pleyel and
Wieland, Brown shows the danger of
having too much faith in these two
beliefs.
religion and empiricism
This Federalist was president at the
time Wieland was published.
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson belonged to this
political party when he was John
Adam’s vice-president.
Democratic-Republican
According to the original constitution,
the candidate with the second most
votes would fill this position.
vice-president
Wieland was published in this year.
1798
This early American political party
believed in the need for a strong
national government.
the Federalist Party
This early American political party
believed in the importance of state
sovereignty.
the Democratic-Republican
Party
This Secretary of the Treasury was
the architect of the Federalist Party’s
doctrine.
Alexander Hamilton
This Secretary of the Treasury
designed the finance system that
would support the national
government.
Alexander Hamilton
This early American political party
believed that anarchy and disorder
were the biggest threats to the new
nation.
the Federalist Party
This early American political party
believed that tyrannical authority was
the biggest threat to the new nation.
the Democratic-Republican
Party
This early American political party
saw the French revolution as an
example of a mobocracy.
the Federalist party
Many Democratic-Republicans
accused the Federalists of being too
quick to engage with this formerly
antagonistic country.
Great Britain
Many Democratic-Republicans
accused Hamilton and the
Federalists of trying to transform the
new nation into this form of
government.
Constitutional monarchy
At the time Wieland was published,
this man was vice-president.
Thomas Jefferson
The rivalry between Federalists and
Democratic-Republicans peaked
during the election of this year.
1800
To the Federalist party, the regicide
of these two French monarchs
exemplified the dangers of
democracy.
Louis XVI and Marie
Antionette
The Alien and Sedition acts allowed
the deportation of these two types of
non-citizens.
those declared “dangerous”
or from an “enemy” nation
Opponents of the Alien and Sedition
acts believed they violated this
Constitutional Amendment.
the First Amendment
These 1798 acts made it harder for
immigrants to become citizens and
gave the government the power to
punish political enemies.
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Immigrants that came to the United
States around the time Wieland was
published were likely to support this
political party.
the Democratic-Republican
Party
The original group of Clara, Wieland,
Pleyel, and Catherine symbolize this
isolated and overconfident nation.
the United States
Carwin was born in this state.
Pennsylvania
Carwin has connections to these two
European countries.
Spain and Ireland
Some scholars suggest that the
actions of Wieland show the dangers
of blindly following this type of
government.
Tyrannical
Brown sent a copy of Wieland to this
former vice president.
Thomas Jefferson
Clara holds this man accountable for
the death of her family.
Carwin
Some scholars suggest that
Wieland’s murders stemmed from
Carwin’s machinations, thereby
aligning Brown with this political
party’s views.
The Federalist Party
Carwin escaped from a jail in this city
in Ireland.
Dublin
Many Irish immigrants came to the
United States after this rebellion.
the Irish Rebellion of 1798
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 fought for
independence against this European
country.
Great Britain
Federalist newspapers often
compared Irish immigrants to this
radical French political faction.
Jacobin
Brown often represented himself as
committed to this political idea.
non-partisanship
Pleyel’s fiancée is from this eastern
German state.
Saxony
In Wieland, Clara states that her
readers will probably think she is
telling this type of story.
a fable
This issue refers to whether a story
will be believed or not.
the issue of credibility
Wieland’s ambiguity and the fact that
many of the mysteries are not
resolved make it a prime example of
this genre.
American gothic
Wieland identifies these two versions
of miscommunication.
misrepresentation and
misinterpretation
This man is the primary cause of
misrepresentation in Wieland.
Carwin
Given the political context of
Wieland, Carwin’s lies symbolize this
type of misrepresentation.
Political rhetoric
In Wieland, we learn that the elder
Wieland read this book hastily and
interpreted it poorly.
The Bible
Pleyel misreads these three words
from Clara’s journal as confirming
her infidelity.
“summer-house, midnight”
Clara, Wieland, Catharine, and
Pleyel debate an interpretation of
Cluentis’s oration in this location.
the Temple
Wieland first hears Carwin’s
ventriloquism when he is going to the
temple to retrieve this text.
a letter from Major Stuart
In connection to Cluentis’s oration,
Wieland and Pleyel argue about
using a family to symbolize this
political unit.
a nation
This character said that the
allegorical interpretation of Cluentis’s
oration was “absurd.”
Pleyel
This man wrote Brown a letter saying
that the novel “present[ed] virtue in
the best & vice in the worst forms
possible.”
Thomas Jefferson
Because his letter is inconsistent with
the events in Wieland, this man
probably did not actually read the
novel.
Thomas Jefferson
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
was an immigrant from this European
nation.
France
Letters from an American Farmer
was one of the earliest books to
express this patriotic idea.
American Exceptionalism
Letters from an American Farmer
follows the story of a farmer from this
state.
Pennsylvania
J. Crèvecoeur held this role in the
French army.
cartographer
After serving in the army, J.
Crèvecoeur moved to this state.
New York
This letter from Letters from an
American Farmer focuses on the
American Revolution and the tension
around it.
the last chapter
The British arrested J. Crèvecoeur
and prevented him from leaving
North America until this year.
1780
Letters from an American Farmer
was most popular among readers
from this continent.
Europe
In Letters from an American Farmer,
James travels to these two states.
Massachusetts and South
Carolina
J. Crèvecoeur served in the army
during this war.
the French and Indian War
J. Crèvecoeur wrote his first letters
during this decade.
1770s
In his last letter, James describes the
antagonism between these two
countries.
America and Great Britain
In his last letter, James says he
wants to move in this direction to
avoid conflict.
west
J. Crèvecoeur tried to move to this
country to avoid the American
Revolution.
France
J. Crèvecoeur sold Letters from an
American Farmer to a publisher in
this city.
London
When J. Crèvecoeur returned to
America, he discovered that his
children had moved to this city.
Boston
This letter from Letters from an
American Farmer has the title “What
is an American”.
letter three
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
these two jobs are the “fairest” jobs
in the cities.
lawyer and merchant
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that,
outside of big cities, most people in
America have this profession.
farmer
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
“we are all tillers of the earth” ranging
from these two North American
provinces.
Nova Scotia to West
Florida
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
immigrants come from these seven
European countries.
England, Scotland, Ireland,
France, Netherlands,
Germany, and Sweden
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
the people of the eastern provinces
are of this nationality.
English
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
this fraction of Americans had “no
country” before.
Two-thirds
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James compares
this group of people to a withering
plant that flourished once it was
transplanted to a new location.
the poor
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
American laws connect all provinces
except this one.
Nova Scotia
According to James, this province is
sparsely populated because of the
British government.
Nova Scotia
According to James, this is the motto
of all emigrants in the United States.
Ubi panis ibi patria
In the third letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
poor European immigrants have only
these two links had to their country.
the language and the love
for their poor kindred
James says that religion makes
these two demands on Americans.
A small voluntary salary to
the minister and gratitude
to God
According to James, one hundred
families could annually export this
number of bushels of wheat after just
six years in America.
10,000
According to James, an industrious
family on good soil commonly sells
this many bushels of wheat annually.
one hundred
According to James, the American
continent takes up at least this
fraction of the globe.
One-fourth
In the third letter, James says that
Americans can purchase grain from
this African country.
Egypt
In the third letter, James says that
Americans can purchase indigo and
rice from this Asian country.
China
According to James, in America a
worker is paid this many times more
than in Europe.
Four to five times more
According to James, Charles-Town is
similar to this city in Peru.
Lima
According to James, Peru became
wealthy because of this precious
metal.
Gold
Charles-Town is located in this
American state.
South Carolina
Charles-Town is located at the
meeting of this many large rivers.
two
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James calls the
inhabitants of this city the “gayest” in
America.
Charles-Town
According to James, these three jobs
make up the majority of jobs in
Charles-Town.
lawyer, planter, and
merchant
In the ninth letter, James says “the
law will possess in the north, what
now the church possesses in” these
two countries.
Peru and Mexico
In the ninth letter, James says that
Americans order slaving vessels to
the coasts of this African country.
Guinea
In Letters from an American Farmer,
James enslaves this many people.
zero
According to James, enslaved
people are happier in America than
this area of the world because they
get more land to grow their own food.
the West Indies
According to James, enslaved
people are treated kindly in this part
of the United States.
the north
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James describes
traveling to a planter’s house that
was this many miles away.
three
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, when James is
walking on the path, he hears a noise
and fires his gun at this type of
animal.
birds of prey
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James finds this
mammal in a cage.
a human
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, the man in the
cage James find is missing this body
part.
his eyes
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James describes
this body part of the man in the cage
as being bare to the bone.
cheeks
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, the man in the
cage asks James for this drink when
he hears James approaching.
water
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, the man in the
cage has been left there for this
many days.
two
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, the man has been
left in the cage for murdering this
person.
the overseer of the
plantation
In the ninth letter of Letters from an
American Farmer, James says that
the plantation owners supported this
doctrine.
the doctrine of slavery
This letter from Letters from an
American Farmer describes the
idyllic socioeconomic situation of the
colonies.
letter three
This man narrates Letters from an
American Farmer.
James
Letters from an American Farmer
addresses a nobleman from this
country.
Great Britain
According to James, land is so cheap
in America that anyone can buy it
and achieve this type of
independence.
economic
Many scholars believe that the first
comparison of the United States to a
melting pot appeared in this book.
Letters from an American
Farmer
Crèvecoeur only discussed men
coming from this continent.
Europe
Letters from an American Farmer
was written in this year.
1782
According to James, the government
has this type of temperament
because most Americans are
farmers and therefore equal.
mild
After leaving his Pennsylvania farm,
James heads to this Northeastern
colony.
Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, James finds this
type of difficult-to-farm soil.
rocky
To British and Anglo-American
readers, Spain evoked these three
qualities.
greed, cruelty, and improvidence
James calls the people of Charles-
Town cruel for their treatment of this
group of people.
enslaved Africans
The black man in the cage asks
James to put him out of his misery
with this substance.
poison
The scenes described in these two
states in Letters from an American
Farmer are opposites of each other.
Pennsylvania and South
Carolina
James’s decision to leave the man in
the cage to suffer symbolizes this
country’s relationship to racial
violence.
America’s
Canassatego belonged to this native
American nation.
the Onondaga Nation
The original homeland of the
Onondaga lies in this modern-day
state.
New York
The Onondaga were one of the
original five nations of this Native
American confederacy.
the Iroquois
The Iroquois Confederacy also has
this name.
the Haudenosaunee
League
Although the Iroquois Confederacy
started with five nations, it later
expanded to this number of nations.
six
Canassatego served in this role for
the Haudenosaunee during meetings
with the British.
diplomat
Canassatego helped negotiate
treaties with the British involving land
that would later become this state.
Pennsylvania
This American Indian confederacy
was an important player in the
negotiations that led to white
ownership of the land where Wieland
takes place.
the Haudenosaunee
League
The Lenape tribe also has this name.
the Delaware
Officials from this state defrauded the
Lenape tribe by falsely claiming that
their land had been sold.
Pennsylvania
The transaction in which officials
used an unsigned or forged deed to
wrongly claim land from the Lenape
goes by this name.
the “Walking Purchase”
The unsigned or fake deed used in
the “Walking Purchase” dates back
to this year
1686
After being defrauded, the Lenape
went to this group for support but
were denied.
the Haudenosaunee
League
The Lancaster Treaty was signed in
this year.
1744
In the Lancaster Treaty, the
Haudenosaunee sold land in this
state.
Virginia
Virginians thought the Lancaster
Treaty granted them territory
extending all the way to this river.
the Ohio River
The Haudenosaunee thought they
had only sold land extending to this
valley in the Lancaster Treaty.
the Shenandoah Valley
Canassatego expresses concern that
the increase in white settlers has
caused a shortage of these two key
resources for Native Americans.
deer and land
Canassatego uses the phrase “Pen-
and-Ink Work” to refer to this treaty
with the British.
the Lancaster Treaty
The “Walking Purchase” occurred in
this year.
1737
Canassatego’s speech addressed
the governor of this colony.
Maryland
Settlers from this country arrived first
in Maryland and met the local
groups.
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