Regionalism and Naturalism

Yes

Did southern states resist the changes that occurred during the Reconstruction?

Myriad

Exceedingly numerous

Tentatively

In a hesitant or uncertain manner

Excruciatingly

In a way that causes great pain or distress

Callow

Lacking adult experience, immature

Somnambulant

Sleepwalking

Overture

The orchestral introduction to a musical dramatic work

Social Darwinists

These people used the idea of survival of the fittest to justify the huge gap between the upper and lower classes and pushed for laissez faire.

Oral literature

This is a form of literature used by many Native Americans that relies on the memories of traditional storytellers and their audiences.

Populist Party

This was a political party whose main goal was to make the government more responsive to workers' needs.

The transcontinental railroad

This was a railroad that stretched across the United States and was begun in 1869.

Veritable

True; not unreal or imaginary

Yes

Was Willa Cather a regionalist writer?

Not entirely

Were African Americans treated as equals after they were freed?

Local color

What are the customs, manner of speech dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character?

Allow to do

What does "laissez faire" mean in English?

Regionalism

What is a linguistic feature peculiar to a particular region and not part of the standard language of a country?

Naturalism

What is a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail in art and literature?

Realism

What is the movement or style of representing familiar things as they actually are in art and literature?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

What was the first novel written entirely in "American"?

Survival of the Fittest

What was the idea taken from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection by Herbert Spencer (an English philosopher)?

Laissez Faire

What was the idea that business should not be regulated, because the law of nature would ensure success for the "fittest" and inevitable failure for everyone else?

Progressive movement

What was the movement which aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life?

The Have-Nots

What was the name for people who were not as well-to-do during the Gilded Age?

Reconstruction

What was the period from 1865-77 following the Civil War during which the states of the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation, including the granting of new rights to African Americans, was introduced?

The Gilded Age

What was the period of time at the end of the 1800s where a very small group of men controlled the vast majority of industry?

Labor unions

What were organized associations of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests?

Cleveland, Pittsburg, Chicago, and Detroit

What were some manufacturing hubs?

1890

When did the U.S. government close the frontier to new settlers?

1870-1910

When were regionalism and naturalism prevalent in the country?

Writers such as Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Who dubbed this period the Gilded Age?

Naturalist writers

Who saw human beings as helpless creatures moved by forces beyond their understanding or control?

Mark Twain and Bret Harte

Who were some local color writers?

Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull

Who were some of the Native Americans who fought back during westward expansion?

John D. Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who were some of the captains of industry?

Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, and farmers

Who were some of the groups who were Have-Nots?

Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Jack London, and Stephen Crane

Who were some of the naturalist writers at this time?

Sordid

Wretched; dirty; morally degraded