ENGL 255 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ENGL 255 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS American Exceptionalism - CORRECT ANSWER-The long tradition of describing first the New England colonies and then the United States as exceptional, that is, distinct from and better than other nations, with a divine mission in the world. Examples from previous units: Winthrop's "City Upon a Hill" and Crèvecoeur's claim that America is "the most perfect society now existing in the world" Colonizationist Movement - CORRECT ANSWER-movement to send africans back to africa, supporters of this movement felt that if free African Americans went to Africa to start new colonies it would prevent conflicts between the races in the US.- that free blacks and whites could not live together peaceably in the United States, a colonization movement arose to alleviate the problem of racial conflict by promoting African American emigration Colored Conventions - CORRECT ANSWER-you can guess Dred Scott Decision - CORRECT ANSWER-A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. Fugitive Slave Law - CORRECT ANSWER-Made it illegal to abet and aid fugitives by common citizens Made it a finable offense for US marshals not to help recover fugitives or those suspected as being fugitive slaves If you are suspected of being a slave, you could not ask for a jury trial or testify on your own behalf Garrisonian Abolitionists - CORRECT ANSWER--The rise of the Garrisonian wing of the abolitionist movement brought whites into more radical activism Higher Law Theory - CORRECT ANSWER-God's law trumps human law when they are in conflict An affirmative argument for breaking the law when it conflicts with morality Promoted by abolitionists in response to the Fugitive Slave Law Historical Romance - CORRECT ANSWER-Popular novel genre of the late eighteenth through nineteenth centuries (to today!) Combines historical materials (especially historical figures and settings) with fictional marriage and adventure plots Aimed at speaking to the current age by way of the events of a different era Helped make the novel a more "respectable" and "literary" form, especially through its associations with men and military history Immediate Emancipation - CORRECT ANSWER-Joining black abolitionists, William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lydia Maria Child, and other white activists began to fight for Kansas-Nebraska Act - CORRECT ANSWER-1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Moral Suasion - CORRECT ANSWER-a Garrisonian tactic that assumed politics and the Constitution were corrupt. They attempted instead to persuade people through the language of morality (this would become divisive over the years) Providence - CORRECT ANSWER-The signs of God in everyday life and natureGod's willing and controlling of the world Romance (Hawthorne's definition) - CORRECT ANSWERbrings new to the familiar, the rays of the moon in your room at night Romantic Presentism - CORRECT ANSWER-The impulse to act politically in the present and to study history are not antithetical Past is not an irretrievable other time but in a fluid and dynamic relation to the present When you write about the past you're always also writing about the present Quatrain - CORRECT ANSWER-a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes. Sentimentality (again) - CORRECT ANSWER-This is a quality often ascribed to cultural texts that try to elicit sympathy and inspire change; thus the writing, as with its eighteenth-century predecessors, was didactic More generally, writing that attempts to inspire certain emotions (and tears) from readers, particularly "pleasing" ones such as sadness, joy, nostalgia (never anger, erotic desires, etc.) and above all asks readers for their sympathy Focused especially on domestic spaces and family life, and therefore associated with women, and often written by women Often described as "saccharine" or "mawkish" by the style's detractors Slave Narrative - CORRECT ANSWER-Attestations that the writer had indeed been enslaved and, if written by him or herself, was the writer A narrative that moves from slavery to escape to the North or Canada A narrative of literacy acquired For women, a narrative that also centers on saving their children and establishing a domestic space A style of writing that is close to "reportage," in response to accusations of exaggeration or fraud Formal qualities shaped in large part by the American AntiSlavery Society Survivance - CORRECT ANSWER-an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry" Sovereignty - CORRECT ANSWER-means their position as nations recognized as such by other nations and allowed to enforce their own legal codes within their boundaries Sympathy - CORRECT ANSWERNathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter published - CORRECT ANSWER-1850 Fugitive Slave Law passed - CORRECT ANSWER-1850 John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry - CORRECT ANSWER185