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!
Punish prisoners severely
Rehabilitate prisoners
Remove criminals permanently from society
Make a substantial profit
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Timothy Dwight's revivalism
Enlightenment rationalism
Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
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Mormons
Methodists
Unitarians
Baptists
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Personal salvation during the Second Great Awakening
An end to slavery
Public schools
Moderation in the consumption of alcohol
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
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Auburn, New York
New Harmony, Indiana
Oneida, New York
Seneca, Falls, New York
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The invention of the telegraph
Better writers
Advances in printing technology
Increasing literacy rates in the south
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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
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Emerson's "The American Scholar"
Thoreau's "Self - Reliance
Hawthorne's Moby Dick
Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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Slavery and the abolitionist movement
The coming of the Civil War
The Second Great Awakening
The Mexican War
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Temperance crusade
Promotion of public education
Abolitionism
Effort to establish utopian communities
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The Second Great Awakening
The lyceum movement
Transcendentalism
A split in the antislavery movement
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The rationality of deism
Both the Unitarians and the Universalists
The moralism of Puritanism
All of the above
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Christian religious values
The doctrine of "complex marriage"
Cooperative ownership
All of the above
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