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American Writers
A New Style of Art
Religion and Music
Architecture and Education
Famous People
100
How did people express their thought and feelings
Literature and Art
100
What did the Hudson River School artists painting reflect?
National pride and appreciation of the American Landscape
100
What inspired most artists in their work?
Religion
100
What kind of styles did people follow before the American Revolution?
Great Britain
100
What did Washington Irving works tell?
American History
200
What was Washington Irving best known short story?
Rip Van Winkle
200
Who founded Hudson River School?
Thomas Cole
200
What did people do at revival meeting?
Songs called spirituals
200
What leader said that people should model architecture after the style used in ancient Greece?
Thomas Jefferson
200
What was one of James Fenimore Cooper books?
The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy
300
Irving combined European influences and what?
American settings and characters
300
What happened to painting in the 1840's?
Most artists were trying to combine images of the American landscapes with scenes from peoples daily lives.
300
What kind of music reflected the unique views of the growing nation?
popular folk
300
Why did the Americans admired the ancient civilization of Greece and Roman Republic?
They shared the same democratic and republican ideas as the Americans did
300
Who used spirituals as songs to pass the time?
slaves