What is Gilbert Stuart Made a portrait of George Washington that was later adapted into the picture used for the dollar bill.
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What is a Cotillion?
What is groups of four couples danced together with elegantly coordinated movements.
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who was Washington Irving?
What is one of the first to achieve literary fame. He drew on German folklore for his colorful tales of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” but set them in the wilds of upstate New York, his stories were and intimate hit.
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why was it hard to travel from east to west of the United States?
What is Because the Appellation mountains stretched from Maine through Georgia.
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Who was Henry Clay? And who was Daniel Webster?
What is Henry Clay was an eloquent speaker, full of charm and intelligence. He campaigned to be president five times, but never seceded. Believed America’s future lied in capitalism. Webster served several terms in both the House and Senate he bitterly opposed the War of 1812
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What did Thomas Cole do?
What is Thomas Cole painted American landscapes. Most of his famous works featured both storm clouds and sunny skies over broad stretches of unspoiled land.
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what is a Minstrel Song?
What is White composers from the south, inspired by the music of black slaves, created a type of music known as minstrel songs. The songs honored black music by mimicking it. While at the same time, the performers mocked African Americans by blackening their white faces, wearing shabby clothes, and singing in exaggerated African American dialects.
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who was James Fenimore Cooper?
What is The Nations first novelist. He wrote about adventures of rugged frontiersmen venturing into the wilderness.
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What are the “Yankees?”
What is The “Yankees” are of the northeast, with its growing cities and bustling trade, were seen as enterprising, thrifty, and (in the eyes of southerners) quick to chase a dollar.
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Who is John C. Calhoun
What is He supported the national bank. A permanent road system and a protective tariff. Yet in other ways he resisted federal power.
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What did John James Audubon do?
What is He painted 435 finely detailed portraits of birds. In some respects, he was more a naturalist than an artist. He made accurate, realistic studies of the species he observed in the fields and woods
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Who is Stephen Foster?
What is He wrote the songs “Old Folks at Home,” “Camptown Races.” And “Oh! Susanna.”
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Who was Davy Crockett?
What is he was a real-life frontiersman who spun tall tales about his life as a hunter, scout, soldier, and explorer.
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who was Uncle Sam?
What is A New York butcher. It was said he had provided the army with meat during the War of 1812.
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Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?
What is Wrote some of the most important court decisions in American History. Two major impacts, they strengthened the role of the Court itself, as well as federal powers over the states. And his rulings encouraged the growth of capitalism.
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What is folk art?
What is Art made by ordinary people (as opposed to trained artists) using traditional methods
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Who is Thomas Darthmouth Rice?
What is caused a national sensation in 1828 with his song “Jump Jim Crow.” The racist phrase “Jim Crow,” which came from Rice’s black minstrel show character had a long life.
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who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
What is was one of the first serious American poets. He wrote America’s first epic poem. The Song of Hiawatha. And “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
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where did most people live in early America?
What is within 50 miles of the Atlantic coast.
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what is McCulloch v. Maryland?
What is the court confirmed Congress’s power to create a national bank that was free form state interference
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Who was George Catlin?
What is He turned his eye on the natives of the American west. He saw that Native American’s Traditional ways were disappearing….. He drew native people.
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As a demand for popular songs grew, composers answered with what?
What is with a stream of patriotic anthems.
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how did a Frenchman describe Davy Crockett?
What is as a man “who has no education. Can read with difficulty, has no property, no fixed residence, but passes his life hunting, selling his game to live, and dwelling continuously in the woods.
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A national identity requires?
What is more than symbols, there had to be shared values.
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what was Gibbons v. Ogden?
What is The Court further reduced state powers. This case struck down a monopoly that New York State had granted to a steamboat company operating between New York and New Jersey.