Why did romanticism thrive in the United States?
What will be an ideal response?
Because romanticism emphasized the natural world, it was logical for the movement to gain strength in a nation with such varied and extensive natural environments as the United States. Students will want to look at the ideas of such transcendentalist thinkers as Emerson and Thoreau and judge how their ideas revealed aspects of the American character. Other examples might include James Fenimore Cooper's writings, which emphasized the frontier experience, or the Hudson River school, which celebrated the natural beauty of the American landscape.
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Between 1850 and 1910, European population
A) increased from 270 million to 460 million. B) actually decreased slightly. C) increased from 140 to 190 million. D) stagnated, causing severe problems for the development of leisure industries. E) declined significantly because of the pollution engendered by increasing urbanization.
The best depiction of Viking life is transmitted to us from
a. sagas. b. monastic records. c. histories or chronicles of the administrators in the empire. d. runes. e. None of these.
The British threat to __________ prompted government officials to call on black men for aid
A) New York and Philadelphia B) Boston and Hartford C) Richmond and Charleston D) Savannah and New Orleans
Most yeomen __________.
a. aspired to be aristocrats b. were staunch Jacksonians who resented aristocratic pretensions c. were members of the Federalist Party and supported rule by an educated elite d. were sympathetic to the plight of slaves