part 2- tcc- Hum2230 – Flashcards
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In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's argument for freedom was inspired by
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John Locke
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Which of the following European countries did NOT provide the colonists financial and naval support in their fight against British rule?
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Germany
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In France, what triggered the events leading to revolution?
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The national debt
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Why did the French peasant and working-class women march on Versailles in 1789?
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To demand bread
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Which of the following was NOT a reform instituted by the French Constitutional Congress?
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Providing each citizen two loaves of bread per week
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Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximiliean Robespierre, one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?
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For ordering so many executions himself
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Why did Neoclassicism become the preferred style in late 18th-century United States?
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To reflect the new government, which was formed on classical ideas
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Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
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Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples
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How is David's Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard historically inaccurate?
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Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule, not a white horse
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Why did North American slaveholders aim to gather Africans of differing backgrounds and languages?
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To reduce the chances of an uprising
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Why did the factories tend to employ unskilled single young women and widows?
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They worked for lower wages than men
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The English Factory Act of 1833
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banned employment of children under age nine.
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What theme is at the heart of Dickens' socially realistic writings?
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Advocating reform for the poor
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Why did Neoclassically-trained Theodore Gericault paint the disturbingly realistic The Raft of Medusa?
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To protest aristocratic privilege
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What Western male belief do the French odalisque (concubine) paintings show?
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Male dominance of women
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Why did Louis XIII purchase and then store away Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People?
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It would insight commoners to rebel
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The French public and critics objected to Gustave Courbet's paintins because of his
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depiction of commoners on a grand scale.
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Why did so many people move to London between 1800 and 1880?
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To be near their jobs in the factories
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Why could Charles Dickens describe the suffering of Londn's poor so vividly and accurately?
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He had grown up in those conditions
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What about Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Le Grande Odalisque did viewers immediately recognize as being unrealistic?
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The woman's back has too many vertebrae.
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What about America attracted artist Thomas Cole that he claimed had "long since been destroyed or modified" in Europe?
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the wilderness
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All of the following are characteristics of Hudson River School paintings EXCEPT
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overt political messages.
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Henry David Thoreau began his Walden Pond experiment to
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live simply.
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In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the white whale seems to symbolize
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the natural world's uncontrollable elements.
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What other movement did Sojourner Truth and others view as part of the abolitionist movement?
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women's rights
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How did the American Civil War change the nature of warfare?
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It was mechanized and impersonal, with no pageantry
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In A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, PA, July 1863, Timothy O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardener deliberately blurred the foreground and background to
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draw attention to the central corpses.
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Why, in 1877, did Southern African Americans lose many of the freedoms they had gained from the Civil War?
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Union troops withdrew from the South.
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Why does Huckleberry Finn decide not to turn in the runaway slave Jim for a reward?
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Huck has learned to appreciate Jim's humanity.
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In The Veteran in a New Field, Winslow Homer creates a sense of optimism by
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bathing the scene in a glowing golden light.
