18th Centurty American Arts and Literature

This American writer based many of his stories such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" on the Dutch History of early New York.

• Washington Irving

• Herman Melville

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(a)   tried to live simply, and sought an understanding of beauty, goodness, and truth.

• Transcendentalists
• Tempereancists
• Prohibitionists
• Abolitionists

Match the following authors to their work.

• Little Women

• Henry David Thoreau

• Moby Dick

• Herman Melville

• The Scarlet Letter

• Louisa May Alcott

• Leaves of Grass

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Walden

• Walt Whitman

Who wrote Camptown Races?

• Stephen Foster

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Herman Melville

• Louisa May Alcott

James Finemore Cooper wrote about a character named (a)   , a frontiersman who kept moving westward.

• Natty Bumpo
• Hiawatha
• Abe Lincoln
• Daniel Boone

Americans developed their own form of Romanticism called (a)  

• transcendentalism.
• Protestantism.
• River School.
• thematic.

​ (a)   wrote poems based on ​ (b)   . He wrote ​ (c)   .

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• American History
• Paul Revere's Ride
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Walt Whitman
• Song of Myself
• World History
• Presidents