Which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in nineteenth-century Atlantic intellectual trends?
a. Artistic appreciation
b. Orientation toward the future rather than the past
c. Spiritual experience
d. Aspects of human existence not easily explained by reason or logic
b. Orientation toward the future rather than the past
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Between 1810 and 1860 the free black population in Louisiana:
A) decreased rather dramatically. B) decreased rather slightly. C) increased rather dramatically. D) increased rather slightly.
The U.S. Geological Survey was founded in
A) ?1876. B) ?1877. C) ?1878. D) ?1879. E) ?1880.
The Parlement of Paris sought to resolve the controversy over voting in the Estates-General by calling for the method used in 1614, which involved
A) each delegate casting a single vote. B) groups of five delegates voting together, based on their status. C) the First and Second Estates have vote by head but the Third Estate voting by order. D) the Third Estate voting by head but the First and Second Estates voting by order. E) each order voting separately and having veto power over the other two.
The preeminent literary genre for realist writers was
a. lyrical poetry. b. epic poetry. c. the novel. d. the short story. e. the newspaper article.