Mercantilism introduced a new way to make profit and gain international influence by promoting the foreign trade of select resources.
The correct answers are: (1) Romanticism and (2) Reason.
Romanticism was an artisitc, literary and intellectual movement developed in Europe, specially in the first half of the 19th century (1800-1850). It highlighted the importance of human emotions, and put emphasis on glorifications of the past of the nations and of the nature. It is believed that the movement emerged as a response to the previous era characterized by the high functionalist ideas, the Industrial Revolution and by the racionalization of everything under the principles of the Enlightment.
The statement that describes the reception of the former slave Olaudah Equines memoir would be that the book was banned, it sold poorly up until the outbreak of the civil war. In which then the book was a huge success and contributed to the American Abolition movement. But even with the success rates, Southern colonial governors were able to cease the publication after the second edition of it.