Historic concepts
The idea that the United States had a divine right to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
A majority of music pieces begin with this, music that precedes the main theme of the piece.
What is an introduction
The scientist best known for his study of the animals in the Galapagos islands and the modern theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin
An art movement that celebrated luxury and was heavily tied to French aristocracy and the Palace of Versailles prior to the French Revolution
What is Rococo
The ratio of difference between two points in their y-axis to the difference in their x-axis, notated by the letter "m"
What is Slope
A movement in 1920s, New York that saw an explosion of African American art, literature, and music
What was the Harlem Renaissance
The frequency of a sound wave determines this characteristic of sound, the higher the frequency the higher this thing is
What is pitch
Cold-blooded vertebrate animals that can breath through their skin and live both in water and on land
What are amphibians
A self-taught Mexican painter widely known for supporting the revolutionary efforts in Mexico and self-portraits
Who was Frida Kahlo
A line that touches a circle at only one point
What is a tangent line
The leader of a non-violence movement that sought to remove Britain from power in India
Who was Mohandas Gandhi
The term for when musicians articulate notes in a short, separated, or choppy manner
What is staccato
A type of interaction between species that is mutually beneficial to both species
What is symbiosis
A representation of a person commonly used in Ancient Egyptian art where the head is in profile, the eyes and torso are in frontal view, and the lower body is in side view
What is fractional representation
Two lines with inverse slopes that intersect at one point before continuing in opposite directions indefinitely
What are perpendicular lines
The leader of the Cuban Revolution who came to power in 1958, modeled his government after the Soviet Communist Party
Who was Fidel Castro
The dynamic for when a musician plays notes at a mildly quiet volume
mezzo piano
The language used in taxonomy to classify different types of animals
What is latin
A perspective technique most popularly utilized in the background of the Mona Lisa
What is sfumato
The formula for finding the midpoint of a line segment
[(x1 +x2)/2] ,[(y1+y2)/2]
A political party that emerged around the 1850s, whose main philosophy was based on a fear of immigrants, mostly catholic ones
What is the Know-Nothing Party
The pitch at which most US orchestral musicians tune to
What is A-440/440Hz
The most broad category in the eight levels of taxonomy
What is Domain
inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, a style of decoration and architecture that often featured flowers and leaves in flowing lines
Art Nouveau
The zeros for the equation y=x2+5x+6
What is x=-2, -3