Unit III - Age of Transition

​An Age of Transition

1855 - 1870

Multiple Choice

What important American Event happened in this time period?

• The Civil War

• The War of 1812

• Industrial Revolution

• The First Newspaper

Bleeding Kansas
John Brown - Lawrence & Harper's Ferry
Senator Charles Sumner
Dred Scott - 1857

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Slavery

Reorder

Put the following events in order:

• Bleeding Kansas

• Charles Sumner speech

• Dred Scott Decision

• The Civil War

• Lincoln's Assassination

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Confederate States of America
Romantic Hero
The Battle of Bull Run
The Party is Over
April 1865 - 618,000 dead

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The Civil War

Freedom of the slaves

Emancipation Proclamation

​Constitutional Amendment to permanently remove slavery

13th Amendment

​Lincoln's most famous speech delivered in Gettysburg at the turning point of the war

Gettysburg Address

Open Ended

What did the 13th Amendment do?

​Writers of the Age

• Walt Whitman

  • Leaves of Grass

  • Free Verse

• Emily Dickinson

  • Terse and compact

  • Themes of love, death, immortality, and nature

Multiple Choice

What was the biggest inspiration for Whitman's poetry?

• America

• Life

• Death

• Love

​Literature of the Civil War...

• Slave Narratives - Frederick Douglass

  • Showed slavery in its true light

• Diaries & Letters

• Fiction - Ambrose Bierce & Stephen Crane

  • "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

  • Red Badge of Courage

• Realism!