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46 Cards in this Set
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The late 1800's
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era of CHANGE
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First shot of Civil War
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April 12, 1861
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Telephone patent 1876
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By 1869 ______ spanned continent
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Railroad
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___________ in urban center by 1880's
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Electric Lights
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Nation's population doubled between _____ & _____
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1870-1890
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jingoistic solidarity
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chauvinistic; believed they were better than other parts
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Hegemony of world affairs
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we dominated the political landscape worldwide
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Spirit of _________ & ____________ is overwhelming.
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Spirit of OPTIMISM & SPECULATION is overwhelming.
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South recovered slowly from Reconstruction: _________ _________ ended, exploitation of _________ diminished
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South recovered slowly from Reconstruction: MILITARY OCCUPATION ended, exploitation of CARPETBAGGERS diminished
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Native Americans
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suffered greater than ever
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Assimilation of Native American prompted via ________ _________ Act of _____
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General Allotment Act of 1887
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Undermined tribal sovereignty by __________ policy that __________ individuals from _________ heritage and customs.
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Undermined tribal sovereignty by EDUCATIONAL policy that SEPARATED individuals from TRIBAL heritage and customs.
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Boarding schools discouraged ______________ ________ & ____________ ___________
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native languages & traditional practices
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_________________ transformed peoples from California to New Mexico into Americans in political sense
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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13th Amendment in ________ freed _________ slaves and began _____________(1866-1877)
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1865; 4 million; Reconstruction
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Abandoned by _________ ___________ & __________ party, blacks oppressed by "____ _____" laws
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Abandoned by SUPREME COURT & REPUBLICAN party, blacks oppressed by "JIM CROW" laws
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___% of southern land was owned by __% of whites---sharecropping and _________ farming typical
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60% of land; 10% of whites; tenant farming typical
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By 1900, _/_ of southern ________ population tenant farmers
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3/4ths of southern black population
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Ku Klux Klan organized in ____(year)
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1866
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1885-1910 ---- over ________ __________ documented
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3500 lynchings
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happy darky and self-sacrificing Mammy
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Minstrel shows
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Some claimed blacks were ____
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non-human and likely doomed to extinction
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Retrogressionist argument
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black had deteriorated after freed from slavery
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---- depicted noble South with kindly master and loyal slaves.
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Plantation school of novelists
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Thomas Dixon's __________________ resulted in __________ in 1915
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The Clansman; The Birth of a Nation
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Writers moved from _____________ toward __________.
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romanticism to realism
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transcendentalism is a form of ______
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romanticism
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Realists emphasize
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facts
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Realist view life _________
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scientifically
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Realists writers attempt to be __________ and ___________ of life.
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observer & reporter
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____________, writers who realistically depicted the daily and common actualities and dialect of their localities
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Regionalists
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Didactic = ___________
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instructs
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Regionalists often surrendered to _________ impulses shunned by rigid realists
Authors caught between __________ of older world and ____________ of new one |
didactic
idealism expectations |
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Regionalists ____________ characters in support of __________ moral judgements or ideals
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sentimentalized
predetermined |
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The ____ Age (tainted) lasted from _____-_____
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Gilded; 18700-1880
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Gilded Age was labeled by _____ and ________
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Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
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Large demand for _______ attracted _______ immigrants in population of 40 million.
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labor; 7.5 million
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Uneducated and underprivileged began to for America's first _________ class in European sense
a.)_____________ work conditions b.)__to__hour workdays |
working
unregulated 10-12 |
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Realistic in their aims, ______________ emerged on literary scene in _______.
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Naturalists
1890s |
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_________ rely on empirical description of experience
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naturalists
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Naturalist foremost concerned with concrete factors in ___________ & ____________. (nature vs. nurture)
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character and environment
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_____________ motivated by note of pessimistic determinism, spiritual unrest, and disturbed religious faith.
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Naturalists.
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______,_____,_____,______ posthumously grow in popularity.
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Cooper, Irving, Poe, Hawthorne
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____,______,______ alive and grow in popularity
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Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell
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Emerging modern American literature often thought of as beginning before ______ ____ when optimistic voice of ____ _______ first heard.
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Civil War
Walt Whitman |