The Development of AMERICAN Culture [APUSH Review Unit 4 Topic 9] Period 4: 1800-1848

The shift in American thought from rational Enlightenment principles to an emphasis on emotion and desire is characteristic of which intellectual movement?

• Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

• Puritanism

• Rationalism

What architectural style, characterized by arches, towering domes, and a connection to democratic ideals, replaced the more restrained Georgian style in the early American Republic?

• Gothic Revival

• Neoclassical

• Baroque

• Art Deco

Which American author contributed to the development of a distinct American literary sensibility by romanticizing the mysterious Western lands and creating heroic characters, as seen in "The Last of the Mohicans"?

• Washington Irving

• Noah Webster

• James Fenimore Cooper

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

The philosophical movement that emerged in the early American Republic, emphasizing individualism, self-reliance, and the inherent goodness of nature, is known as:

• Rationalism

• Transcendentalism

• Empiricism

• Utilitarianism