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Terms | Definitions |
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 The Last of the Mohicans | 1757. Leatherstocking Tales. First genuine Western heroes in AMerican lit. By James Cooper. "Noble savage" |
| Common Sense | 1776. Call for independence from Britain, opposing monarchy. Thomas Paine used biblical analogies in it. |
| The Federalist Papers | 1787. Support the ratification of the Constitution. Challenged politics of the time by saying a large republic had best minority protection. |
| The Liberator | 1831. Called for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves". By William Lloyd Garrison |
| Democracy in America | 1835. Argued American individualism arose as a result of the absence of an aristocracy. |
| The Hudson River School | Mid 1800s. Group of artists led by Thomas Cole. Was the first American School of art. Painted landscapes of America's beauty. |
| McGuffey Readers | 1836. Instruction books. 4/5 of school children read these poems, essays, stories, etc. By William McGuffey |
| Civil Disobedience | 1849. Thoreau argued that individuals have a moral responsibility to oppose unjust laws and unjust actions by governments. Used by Dr. King for civil disobedience. |
| The Scarlet Letter | 1850. About the legacy of Puritanism. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1872. Strengthened Northern opposition to slavery. By Harriet Beech Stowe, second only to the Bible in sales. |
| Walden | 1854. About transcendentalism (truth through inner reflection and exposure to nature). By Henry David Thoreau. |
| Horatio Alger Stories | 1867-1899. 270 dime novels about rags to riches stories. |
| A Century of Dishonor | 1881. Raised public awareness of the gov's record of betraying Native Americans. Helen Hunt Jackson. |
| The Influence of Sea Power upon History | 1890. Argued that control of the sea was key to world dominance. Helped grow the US naval power. |
| How the Other Half Lives | 1890. Jacob Riis took pictures of poverty and slums in New York City. |
| The Significance of the Frontier | 1893. Development of American individualism and democracy was shaped by the frontier experience. Focused on a lacking of feudal aristocracy. |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | 1900. Written as a political commentary on free silver and the plight of american farmers. L. Frank Baum. |
| The Ashcan School of Art | early 1900s. Eight artist led by John Sloan. Focused on depicting urban scenes such as crowded tenements and boisterous barrooms. |
| The Jungle | 1906. Exposed Chicago's meatpacking industry. Muckraking novel. Helped with the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Upton Sinclair |
| Pragmatism | 1907. Held that truth was to be tested, above all, by the practical consequences of an idea, by action rather than theories. Did not believe in absolute truth. William James. |
| Lost Generation of the 1920s. | 1920s. Writers were disillusioned with American society during the 1920s. sinclair lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Harlem Renaissance | 1920s. Created distinctive African American lit. Expressed pride in there black culture. Langston Hughes. |
| Jazz | Popular among youth because it symbolized a desire to break with tradition. Musicians such as Joseph King Oliver |
| The Organization Man | 1956. criticizes the homogeneous cultures of the 1950s. Criticizes American conformity. WH Whyte. |
| On the Road | 1957. Expressed alienation of the Beat Generation of the 1950s. Rejected middle class conformity. Jack Kerouac. |
| Rock and Roll | 1950s. Music inspired by black musical tradition. Elvis Presley. |
| Silent Spring | 1962. Protested the contamination of the air, land, and water with chemical insecticides such as DDT. Sparked the environmental movement. Rachel Carson. |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | Argued citizens have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. Martin Luther King Jr |
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