WorksheetsAmerican Culture Changes
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 16mins
Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?
Thomas Cole
Margaret Fuller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Lloyd Garrison
Transcendentalism encourages:
following the rules
being like everyone else
joining the majority opinion
not conforming to what others do and say
Supporter of Transcendentalism.
Resisted government laws viewed as unjust by refusing to pay his poll taxes in an act of Civil Disobedience
Thomas Cole
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
John James Audubon
Group of people that painted nature and the American landscape. Led by Thomas Cole.
Quakers
Federalists
Puritans
Hudson River School
What was one reason Irish people immigrated to America?
they wanted a vacation
there was a potato famine
they didn't like Ireland
They were forced to by the government
Americans who opposed immigration
Patriots
Nativists
Know-Nothing-Party
Tenements
What was the main religion of most Irish?
Catholicism
Judaism
Islam
Protestantism
What were Pull Factors for coming to America
Abundant Land
Freedom
Industrial Revolution
Religious Persecution
Economic Opportunity
What were Push Factors for coming to America
Abundant Land
Freedom
Industrial Revolution
Religious Persecution
Economic Opportunity
Why was agricultural advancements considered a push factor?
Tractors were not trustworthy and dangerous
Life became mundane and more difficult
New tools replaced human labor
New tools led to famines
What were the themes of Romanticism?
The individual
Nonconformity
Creativity
Emotions
Self reliance
Which of the following are Romantic writers?
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Dorothea Dix
Walt Whitman
Winslow Homer
