AMERICAN LITERATURE

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Across
  1. 2. / Romantic writers gave great importance to _____
  2. 3. / distrust of the mystical, belief in the world revealed by the senses, confidence in ___, and assurance of man's capacity to solve all human problems were attitutes supported by the Enlightenment
  3. 5. / the philosophy of the Age of Reason
  4. 6. / concerned about practical values
  5. 9. / nature, ___ and individualism assured Romanticism a lasting influence upon American culture
  6. 13. / the ___ past greatly interested Nathaniel Hawthorne
  7. 14. / the book Benjamin Franklin wrote for the instruction of his son
  8. 15. / the ____ movement appeared in America at the beginning of the 19th century
  9. 16. / the opportunity to become an independent ____brought many immigrantsto America from Europe
  10. 18. / the letter "A", embroidered on Hester Prynne's breast means _____
  11. 20. __ Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
Down
  1. 1. / life, liberty and _____ are unalienable rights according to the Declaration of Independence
  2. 4. Romanticism emphasized ____ , an attitude that impressed Americans
  3. 7. / the number of virtues Benjamin Franklin wrote in his book
  4. 8. / sin , ____, penance, and forgiveness are some of the themes of The Scarlet letter
  5. 10. / one of the subjects of possible and worthwhile knowledge according to the Enlightenment
  6. 11. / the ____ is the document that organized and defined the new government in North America
  7. 12. / Hawthorne was able to view _____ the American Puritan past because he was not a man of rigorous faith
  8. 17. / Romanticism relied upon ___ and not reason.
  9. 19. / during the 18th century England increased American __, forbade Americans to sell their products to other countries, did not allow them to make their own manufactures