AMERICAN HISTORY CONNECTING WITH
THE PAST UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE
●● What was the focus of American painting?
Answer: The wonder of untamed American landscape.
●● What was the Hudson River School?
Answer: Established by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Thomas
Doughty; first American painting school
●● Who was the first great American novelist? What set him apart?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper; Evocation of the American
wilderness; Romanticism
●● Who was Herman Melville?
Answer: wrote Moby Dick; Dark aspect of American romanticism;
Showed that search for triumph and self-fulfillment could be a
destructive force
●● Southern Romanticism
, Answer: Romanticism of plantation life. William Gilmore Simms was a
big figure
●● Transcendentalism
Answer: A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition,
which emphasized innate intuition (reason) over blind agreement with
external education
●● How did an American national culture of art, literature, philosophy,
and communal living develop in the nineteenth century?
Answer:
●● What were the issues on which social and moral reformers tried to
"remake the nation"? How successful were their efforts?
Answer:
●● Why did the crusade against slavery become the preeminent issue of
the reform movement?
Answer:
●● Who was the group that defended nature in the 19th century?
Answer: Transcendentalists believed that nature was the source of
spiritual fulfillment and not formal religion.
THE PAST UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE
STUDY GUIDE
●● What was the focus of American painting?
Answer: The wonder of untamed American landscape.
●● What was the Hudson River School?
Answer: Established by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Thomas
Doughty; first American painting school
●● Who was the first great American novelist? What set him apart?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper; Evocation of the American
wilderness; Romanticism
●● Who was Herman Melville?
Answer: wrote Moby Dick; Dark aspect of American romanticism;
Showed that search for triumph and self-fulfillment could be a
destructive force
●● Southern Romanticism
, Answer: Romanticism of plantation life. William Gilmore Simms was a
big figure
●● Transcendentalism
Answer: A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition,
which emphasized innate intuition (reason) over blind agreement with
external education
●● How did an American national culture of art, literature, philosophy,
and communal living develop in the nineteenth century?
Answer:
●● What were the issues on which social and moral reformers tried to
"remake the nation"? How successful were their efforts?
Answer:
●● Why did the crusade against slavery become the preeminent issue of
the reform movement?
Answer:
●● Who was the group that defended nature in the 19th century?
Answer: Transcendentalists believed that nature was the source of
spiritual fulfillment and not formal religion.
