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Europe
What country did most American painters study in?
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The common people
Who did Walt Whitman have the most faith in?
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Washington Irving & James Fenimore Cooper
Who were the two earliest writers?
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Transcendentalists
What did the small and influential group of writers from New England call themselves?
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The Hudson River School
What was the first group of artists that began their own style?
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7
About how many poems did Emily Dickinson publish in her lifetime?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who published Moby Dick?
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The most important truths in life transcended, or went beyond, human reason.
What did transcendentalists believe?
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The love of nature and the desire for liberty
What universal themes did the Americans use in their work of a unique American vision?
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John Greenleaf Whittier and Frances Watkins Harper
Who used their pens to make their readers aware of slavery?
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"The Tell-Tale Heart"
What did Edgar Allan Poe become famous for?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was the leading transcendentalist?
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Robert S. Duncanson
Which artist reflected the style of the Hudson River School?
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"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?
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Woman gaining wealth and happiness through honesty and self- sacrafice
What were the novels by early woman writers usually about?
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The rise of cities were ruining the nation
What did Henry David Thoreau believe?
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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?
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Democracy
What did Walt Whitman's poetry celebrate?
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Slave life in 1853
What was Clotel, a novel by William Wells Brown, about?
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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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