Growth of the Nation 18001870

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Growth of the Nation 1800-1870

• In 1800 the United Stated included 16 States-
  located on east coast.
• The population growth of the US exploded rapidly
  after 1803-
• Every mile and area of new territory was a new
  land and wonders

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Westward Growth

• 1803 Thomas Jefferson doubled the nations size
  by signing the LOUISIANA PURCHASE
• 1828 Andrew Jackson the Peoples President
  ushered in the era on the COMMON MAN.
• 1838 Indian removal and the Trail of Tears
• Over 4,000 Native Americans died
• The Monroe Doctrine stated that no European
  Countries should not intervene in Latin and North
  American issues

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The Industrial Revolution

• Villagers moved to the cities factories jobs
  smoke pollution
• backbreaking labor death vs. luxury side by
  side with poverty
• It was the best of time it was the worst of
  times.
• Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

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American Literature History

• During this period literature blossomed
  particularly in Massachusetts, Boston, Concord,
  Salem, Pittsfield and Amherst.
• This period is called a FLOWERING-
  RENASISSANCE- GOLDEN DAY
• Boston was a center of Culture and Commerce.
  Hotels, cotton factories, business
• The new factory system pushed MASS PRODUCTION of
  good and services.
• City population grew as people moved from farmers
  to cities for commerce. Jobs

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Romanticism

• Romanticism was an artistic movement but not
  solely about LOVE
• Writers valued imagination over reason and
  intuition over facts-
• Writers wrote about nature and the adventures on
  the common man
• Authors include- Washington Irving, James
  Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant and Edgar
  Allan Poe

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New England Renaissance1840-1855

• One mans justice is anothers injustice one
  mans beauty anothers ugliness one mans wisdom
  anothers folly.
• - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Renaissance- comes from the Latin word rinascere
  to be REBORN.
• A rebirth of culture and ideas.
• A movement toward literature and nature.

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Transcendentalism

• A philosophy based on the belief that knowledge
  is not limited to and solely derived from
  experience and observation. They believed that
  the solution to human problems lies in the free
  development of individual emotions.
• This intellectual movement directly or indirectly
  affected most of the writers of this period.
  They also believed that the human senses can know
  only the physical reality.

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Transcendentalism Authors

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Whitman

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Literary Terms and Movements

• Mood
• Point of View
• Omniscient Narrator
• Single Effect
• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Repetition
• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme
• Slant Rhyme
• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Cinquain
• Fireside Poets
• Allegory
• Parable

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Literary Terms and Movements

• Romanticism
• Transcendentalism
• Fireside Poets
• New England Renaissance
• Walden

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