About the Quiz
1. Immigrants of America mostly refers to Spanish, Dutch, and enslaved Africans.
2. Great Awakening : The term Great Awakening can refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history. It also emphasizes the importance of human emotions and feelings main writer including Jonathan Edwards.
3. British Romanticiasm <-> American Romanticism
4. Renaissance can also be called Late Classicism, and Romanticism can also be called Late Renaissance.
5. Classicism and Renaissance were mostly based on reason while Medieval and Neoclassicism were based on faith.
6. Literature period
（每個時期都有每個時期的反動）
1. The classicism (Greek, Rome, Latin)
2. The dark age (Medieval)
3. Renaissance
5. Romanism
7. Modernism
About Jonathan Edwards
1. The most impressive mind of the colonial period.
2. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.
3. Edwards's theological work is broad in scope, but he was rooted in Reformed theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage.
4. His greatest work:"Freedom of Will" has been neglected in the general history of American thought ever since the decline of the Puritan in fluence in the country.
5. His work: "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God"
=> original sin, Jesus
6. We are chosen to the rest of all -> Bible => chosen people
election 的概念 -> life depend on predestiny
管的最少的政府才是最好的政府
* Thoreau 最早
1. Al Gore's Concession Speech
5. Common Sense and The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
The Revolutionary Period (P166 講義右上)
About Benjamin Franklin (理性年代的代表人物 )
1. He was the embodiment of the Age of Reason. (Age of Enlightenment) and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
2. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and in many ways was "the First American".
3.His famous work: "Autobiography", "Poor Richard's Almanak"
Ratified (立法)同意 "I agree your consession."
Quote from Franklin
1. A penny save is a penny earn
2. A sleeping fox catch no duck
3. Time is money.
The Romantic Period (P167 講義右下)
1. humantic + individualistic + emotionalism
2. Inferiority complex: An inferiority complex is a lack of self-worth, a doubt and uncertainty, and feelings of not measuring up to standards. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme asocial behavior.The term was coined to indicate a lack of covert self-esteem.
3. Washington Irving (美國文學中第一個文人)
About Washington Irving
1. He was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
2. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..
-migra: move
1. immigrants
man-: hand
1. manifest
2. manipulate
trans-: 從一地搬到另一地
1. transfer
2. transport
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