Why did women play such an important role in the urban reform movements of the 1840s?

Urban reform centered on creating secure domestic spaces

Which authors were most successful in attracting a British audience in the antebellum years?

Anti-slavery authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unlike the American novelists of the time period, the Fireside poets:

worked within European literary traditions

How closely connected were the authors of the American Renaissance?

They read and reacted to each other's books and responded

Which was not a result of discrepancies between the copyright laws of the U.S. and England?

Crowds met the installments of serialized novels at ports

Why did the urban population of American Catholics increase dramatically in the 1840s?

Irish Catholics emigrated because of a tragic potato blight

Travel Literature became very popular because of

population growth and territory expansion

All of the following are characteristics of American Romanticism except for

believed the city to be a place to find success

Why wereMelville, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Whitman neglected until the 20th century?

Their works often addressed readers who did not yet exist

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American Romanticism Quiz

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1
Why did women play such an important role in the urban reform movements of the 1840s?
Urban reform centered on creating secure domestic spaces
Women were already involved in promoting women's rights
Women lived in cities and advocated better living conditions
Men concentrated on the countryside
2
This time period is often called a "renaissance"--but a more accurate description would be
a reinvention of classic forms
an introduction to literary collaboration
an overly emotional outpouring
a coming of age
3
Which authors were most successful in attracting a British audience in the antebellum years?
Female authors writing about women's equality
Anti-slavery authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe
novelists like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
Lyric poets such as Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson
4
Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville were considered
Transcendentalists
Southern Aggrarians
Fireside Poets
Anit-Transcendentalists
5
Unlike the American novelists of the time period, the Fireside poets:
worked within European literary traditions
expressed doubts about America's future
championed new literary forms
explored the use of supernatural themes and subject matter
6
The 2 writers mainly associated with Transcendentalism were:
Cooper and Melville
Emerson and Thoreau
Whittier and Longfellow
Poe and Holmes
7
How closely connected were the authors of the American Renaissance?
They read and reacted to each other's books and responded
they attended same colleges/worked at the same newspapers
They knew of each other, but could not keep personal contact
Felt themselves to contribute to an American Renaissance
8
Which was not a result of discrepancies between the copyright laws of the U.S. and England?
American authors couldn't support themselves just by writing
Royalties for some didn't mean royalties for all
Crowds met the installments of serialized novels at ports
American readers benefited from pirated editions of novels
9
Romantics felt that the exploration of the past, the exotic, the supernatural, could lead to
innovative new writing genres
stylistic evolution
rises in popularity for writers
understanding higher truths
10
Which of the following works was not written in response to the end of the Civil War?
The Lessons of the Hour
The Gettysburg Address
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Battle Pieces
11
Which battle of the War of 1812 allowed Andrew Jackson to emerge a national "mythological" hero
the siege of Fort McHenry
the invasion of Canada
the burning of Washington D.C.
the Battle of New Orleans
12
Why did the urban population of American Catholics increase dramatically in the 1840s?
Britain imposed a harsh anti-Catholic civil service policy
A 3rd "Great Awakening" swept the country during that decade
Italian and Spanish rustics sought work in America
Irish Catholics emigrated because of a tragic potato blight
13
The romantics associated the countryside with independence, moral clarity, and
expansive freedom
self realization
environmental stability
healthful living
14
One of the authors associated with the popularity of American Novels was
William Cullen Bryant
James Greenleaf Whittier
T. S. Eliot
James Fenimore Cooper
15
The Fireside Poets: John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendel Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
T.S. Eliot
16
Travel Literature became very popular because of
population growth and territory expansion
open borders
new laws freeing up travel restrictions
the easing of printing laws
17
All of the following are characteristics of American Romanticism except for
believed the city to be a place to find success
Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual
Prefers youthful innocence to educated sophistication
Values feeling and intuition over reason
18
The two poets considered to be the greatest American poets of the 19th century
Whitman and Dickinson
Longfellow and Dickinson
Longfellow and Whitman
Bryant and Whitman
19
Why wereMelville, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Whitman neglected until the 20th century?
Their works often addressed readers who did not yet exist
Their works seemed intentionally difficult and obscure
Primarily directed works to readers from previous century
Their works were not widely published until the 20th century
20
Which two cities were the major publishing hubs in the United States before 1840?
New York and Washington D.C.
New York and Boston
Philadelphia and Boston
New York and Philadelphia

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