American Culture

Which statement shows how this excerpt is an example of transcendentalism in the early-to-mid 1800s?

• Thoreau uses reason to explain natural events that happen in the world

• Thoreau focuses on the role of science in changing the natural world

• Thoreau studies the relationship between nature and historical events

• Thoreau focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world

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8.26A

The theme represented in this painting is most associated with -

• the 19th century temperance movement

• books and songs supporting the nativist movement

• the works of artists from the Hudson River School

• the 19th century industrial boom

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8.26A

The Hudson River School artists were influenced by the -

• success of social reform movements in the United States

• migration of settlers to the U.S. frontier

• natural landscapes of the United States

• environmental effects of U.S. industrialization

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8.26A

Which movement did Emerson lead?

• Temperance

• Abolitionism

• The Second Great Awakening

• Transcendentalism

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8.26A

This painting was completed in 1864, just before the end of the Civil War. At that time, what idea did the western frontier represent to many Americans?

• The need to establish national parks

• The threat of industrial pollution

• The abundance of wildlife

• The promise of a new beginning for the nation

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8.26B

This painting shares a common theme with which literary work?

• "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• "Paul Revere's Ride," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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8.26B