Emerging Realism - Historical Context and Ideas of the Age

What event is associated with violence between proslavery and antislavery factions prior to the Civil War?

• The Boston Tea Party

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Civil War

• The Gold Rush

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Who described Brown as 'an angel of light in the fight against slavery'?

• Hawthorne

• Thoreau

• Lincoln

• Douglas

The Dred Scott case is significant in the context of slavery and freedom because it:

• upheld the rights of slave owners and denied citizenship to African Americans

• abolished slavery in all U.S. territories

• granted freedom to all slaves in the United States

• recognized the rights of slaves to sue for their freedom

In 1861, after the attack on Fort Sumter, which state secedes from the U.S. and forms the Confederate States of America?

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Virginia

• Alabama

During the first battle of Bull Run, what unusual activity did people engage in on the hill?

• People engaged in picnicking and watching the battle as if it were a spectator event.

• People were selling goods and merchandise to soldiers.

• People were building fortifications for the army.

• People were conducting military drills.

For how many years did Southern forces repel the North until the Battle of Gettysburg?

• The Southern forces repelled the North for approximately two years until the Battle of Gettysburg.

• The Southern forces repelled the North for approximately one year until the Battle of Gettysburg.

• The Southern forces repelled the North for approximately three years until the Battle of Gettysburg.

• The Southern forces repelled the North for approximately four years until the Battle of Gettysburg.

Slavery had been outlawed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th amendment (Gave Black men the right to vote).

• True

• False

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Since the war, American readers lost their taste for romance and the adventure. Now, they were looking for a new style.

• True

• False

This style was called Realism and was known for:

• Honest

• Unsentimental

• Ironic/sarcastic

Whitman and Dickinson answered the nation’s need for a national poetic style.

• Both broke conventional rules of poetry such as Rhyme Scheme and Topics

• Both are seen as transitional for literature.

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