AMERICAN HISTORY CONNECTING WITH THE
PAST 1 ACTUAL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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.
PAST 1 ACTUAL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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.
