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WorksheetsSocial Studies: T7 L6, Arts and Literature
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 36mins
A group of American artists based in New York who developed a unique style of landscape painting in the mid-1800s.
Transcendentalist.
Hudson River School.
Individualism.
One of a group of New England writers and thinkers who believed that the most important truths transcended, or went beyond, human reasoning.
Transcendentalist.
Individualism.
Hudson River School.
The belief in the uniqueness and importance of each individual.
Hudson River School.
Transcendentalist.
Individualism.
What books did Washington Irving write?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
A Dutch History of New York.
Leaves of Grass.
Rip Van Winkle.
Who believed that individuals must judge right and wrong for themselves and encouraged civil disobedience to bring change to society?
Henry David Thoreau.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Herman Melville.
James Fenimore Cooper.
______ wrote about frontiersmen moving westward.
Washington Irving.
Louisa May Alcott.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
______ wrote Moby Dick.
Walt Whitman.
Herman Melville.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
John Greenleaf Whitter.
______ wrote The Scarlett Letter.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Thomas Cole.
George Catlyn.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
______ wrote Little Women.
Frances Watkins Harper.
Washington Irving.
Louisa May Alcott.
Herman Melville.
______ wrote poems based on American history, including "Paul Revere's Ride."
Henry David Thoreau.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Walt Whitman.
George Caleb Bingham.
______ expressed the democratic American spirit and celebrated common people. He also wrote "Leaves of Grass."
Stephen Foster.
Thomas Cole.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Walt Whitman.
______ founded the Hudson River School.
Walt Whitman.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Thomas Cole.
George Catlyn.
______ was an artist who painted life on the great river.
George Caleb Bingham.
Herman Melville.
Stephen Foster.
Washington Irving.
______ was an artist who painted the ways and dignity of Native Americans.
Louisa May Alcott.
Thomas Cole.
Henry David Thoreau.
George Catlyn.
______ was the most popular writer of the 1800's.
Washington Irving.
Stephen Foster.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Walt Whitman.
When were American songs chanted?
When men sailed on ships.
When men laid railroad tracks.
When men hauled barges along canals.
Who developed the spiritual?
Wealthy.
Irish immigrants.
Enslaved African Americans.
Famous artists of the Hudson River School.
By the mid-1800s, American writers who had previously depended on Europe for ideas began to write stories with American subjects.
True.
False.
Authors such as Lousia May Alcott wrote about the lives of political heroes.
True.
False.
Members of the Hudson River school created works that focued on Native Americans.
True.
False.
Enslaved African Americans developed a form of song called the spiritual.
True.
False.
