The American renaissance period in American literature ran from about 130 to around the civil war. There were a lot of changes that we covered in this era in chapter 13 on American renaissance when it came to romanticism and reform. Take up the quiz below and refresh your memory. All the best!
Timothy Dwight's revivalism
Enlightenment rationalism
Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
Focused on group conversion decisions to avoid the loneliness of single acts
Taught that regeneration was a change from selfishness to universalism
Eventually became president of Harvard College
Grew up in a very religious home
Mormons
Methodists
Unitarians
Baptists
The rationality of deism
Both the Unitarians and the Universalists
The moralism of Puritanism
All of the above
Emerson's "The American Scholar"
Thoreau's "Self - Reliance
Hawthorne's Moby Dick
Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Slavery and the abolitionist movement
The coming of the Civil War
The Second Great Awakening
The Mexican War
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
The invention of the telegraph
Better writers
Advances in printing technology
Increasing literacy rates in the south
Personal salvation during the Second Great Awakening
An end to slavery
Public schools
Moderation in the consumption of alcohol
Temperance crusade
Promotion of public education
Abolitionism
Effort to establish utopian communities
Punish prisoners severely
Rehabilitate prisoners
Remove criminals permanently from society
Make a substantial profit
The Second Great Awakening
The lyceum movement
Transcendentalism
A split in the antislavery movement
Auburn, New York
New Harmony, Indiana
Oneida, New York
Seneca, Falls, New York
Christian religious values
The doctrine of "complex marriage"
Cooperative ownership
All of the above