Humanities 2250 Quiz 2 – Flashcards
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Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential?
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Vast traps of wilderness promising New Beginning
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According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, what was transcendentalism's fundamental principle?
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Spirit of answers?
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Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond?
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Wanted to live simply (Indian culture)
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How did Herman Melville's view of nature differ from that of other Romantics?
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Nature is a challenge/threat that needs to be conquered.
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Why did Frederick Douglass eventually break away from the Anti-Slavery Society?
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Anti-slavery society of Garrison was defending the theory of DEunionizing
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Why was Abraham Lincoln initially reluctant to free the slaves?
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Feared that emancipation would divide the Union(Saving the Union)
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What was a central mission of the abolitionist movement?
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-Asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
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On what main point did Darwin's discoveries and theories draw criticism from Louis Agassiz and others?
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Emphasizing sexual driving force :not created by God
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Why did Britain and France not support the South during the Civil War?
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Politics
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How did the American Civil War change the nature of warfare?
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The people became mechanized.
