American Painters American Poetry American Novels & Stories The "Inner Light"
100
Europe
What country did most American painters study in?
100
The common people
Who did Walt Whitman have the most faith in?
100
Washington Irving & James Fenimore Cooper
Who were the two earliest writers?
100
Transcendentalists
What did the small and influential group of writers from New England call themselves?
200
The Hudson River School
What was the first group of artists that began their own style?
200
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About how many poems did Emily Dickinson publish in her lifetime?
200
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who published Moby Dick?
200
The most important truths in life transcended, or went beyond, human reason.
What did transcendentalists believe?
300
The love of nature and the desire for liberty
What universal themes did the Americans use in their work of a unique American vision?
300
John Greenleaf Whittier and Frances Watkins Harper
Who used their pens to make their readers aware of slavery?
300
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
What did Edgar Allan Poe become famous for?
300
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was the leading transcendentalist?
400
Robert S. Duncanson
Which artist reflected the style of the Hudson River School?
400
"Paul Revere's Ride"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow based many of his poems on events from the past. Which one of his poems honored the Revolutionary war hero?
400
Woman gaining wealth and happiness through honesty and self- sacrafice
What were the novels by early woman writers usually about?
400
The rise of cities were ruining the nation
What did Henry David Thoreau believe?
500
George Catlin & Alfred Miller
Who traveled to the Far West to record the daily life of Indians on the Great Plains and in the Rockies?
500
Democracy
What did Walt Whitman's poetry celebrate?
500
Slave life in 1853
What was Clotel, a novel by William Wells Brown, about?
500
T R A N S C E N D E N T A L I S T
How do you spell the name of the group that believes the most important truths in life transcended, or went beyond, human reason.






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