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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Age of Reason (dates) | 1750-1800 |
| Revolutionary War (dates) | 1775-1783 |
| Declaration of Independence signed (date) | 1776 |
| First president elected (date) | 1789 |
| Third president elected, America is starting to settle down (date) | 1800 |
| Most popular form of literature for the Age of Reason | pamphlets and speeches |
| the belief that we can arrive at the truth by using our God-given reason rather than relying on religious faith or institution | realism |
| God made it possible for all people at all times to discover new things and truths through the reasoning ability he gave to them | deism |
| Patrick Henry (era + work) | Age of Reason; Speech to the Virginia Convention |
| Romanticism (dates) | 1800-1865 |
| belief that God is present in all forms of nature and in other people; He is seen as friendly and forgiving | Pantheism |
| Washington Irving (era + work) | Romanticism; The Devil and Tom Walker |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (era + work) | Romanticism; The Cross of Snow |
| William Cullen Bryant (era + work) | Romanticism; June |
| Transcendentalism (date) | 1840-1850 (about) |
| God's Divine spirit infuses our lives daily | idealism |
| coined by Emerson; endless goodness which exists in all things | Over-Soul |
| Man's relationship with God is personal | mysticism |
| Henry David Thoreau (era + work) | Transcendentalism; Resistance to Civil Government |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (era + work) | Transcendentalism; Self-Reliance |
| Edgar Allan Poe (era + work) | Anti-Transcendentalism; The Oval Portrait |
| Herman Melville (era + work) | Anti-Transcendentalism; Bartleby the Scrivener |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne (era + work) | Anti-Transcendentalism; The Minister's Black Veil |
| Emily Dickinson (era + works [6]) | American Renaissance; Because I could not stop for death, i heard a fly buzz before i died, god is indeed a jealous god, i know that he exists, i never saw a moor, i died for beauty but was scarce |
| Walt Whitman (era + work [2]) | American Renaissance; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Song of Myself |
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