US History Unit 5 – Lesson 3 – Flashcards
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: Thomas Cole
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The Oxbow Themes: -nature -Hudson River School -Worried about the effect of technology on nature
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: George Catlin
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Themes: • Native American culture • Produced hundreds of paintings • Wanted to preserve the memory of how Native Americans lived
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: George Caleb Bingham
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The Stump-Speaker Fur Traders Descending the Missouri Themes: • Captured the new democratic spirit of the nation • Depicted ordinary people at work and play • Show the American political process • Was influenced by nature
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: John James Audubon
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The Birds of America Themes: • Painted birds in their natural habitat • Celebrated nature in America
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: Washington Irving
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"Rip Van Winkle" "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" Themes: • Popular writer of short novels
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: James Fenimore Cooper
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Leatherstocking Tales (cycle of five novels) The Pioneers The Last of the Mohicans Themes: • Wrote about frontier life • Works were translated into other languages
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Snow-Bound" Themes: • Poetry celebrated the people and landscapes of rural New England
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Courtship of Miles Standish Evangeline Song of Hiawatha Themes: • Attempted to convey the epic sweep of America's history in verse • Wrote about humble people in out-of-the-way places
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Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature: Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Raven" Themes: • Most works dwell on the theme of death • Known for macabre short stories • Considered inventor of the modern detective story
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The Transcendentalist Movement : Key Figures
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson • Henry David Thoreau • Margaret Fuller
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The Transcendentalist Movement : Key Ideas
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• Regarding religion: Christianity was too traditional and restrictive. • Regarding nature: The way to the divine lay in communion with nature. People should be more in tune with the quieter pace of the natural world. • Regarding conformity: People should be true to their own nature and not be conformists. • Regarding materialism: People should live simpler lives and not be constantly in pursuit of material goods.
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Who was the acknowledged leader of transcendentalism?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American Authors Influenced by Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass "Song of Myself" Themes: • America and American diversity • democracy • individuality
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American Authors Influenced by Transcendentalism: Emily Dickinson
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"Tell All the Truth" "I'm Nobody! Who are You?" "The Soul Selects Her Own Society" Themes: • love, God, nature, and mortality
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American Authors Influenced by Transcendentalism: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter Themes: • sin and guilt • difficulty in escaping one's past • evil
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American Authors Influenced by Transcendentalism: Herman Melville
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Moby-Dick Themes: • dark view of man and nature • The natural world can be destructive.
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The 1830s saw the emergence of a distinctly American school of philosophy known as transcendentalism. The acknowledged leader of this school was a daringly original thinker and former Unitarian minister,_________.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Describes transcendentalism
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-lead a simple life -be true to your own nature -commune with nature -break away from restrictions of Christianity -avoid materialism
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Who depicted the natural beauty of the northeastern United States in his paintings?
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Thomas Cole
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Who celebrated American diversity and the working class in long lines of free verse?
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Walt Whitman
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Who documented the culture of the Native American tribes of the Great Plains in his paintings?
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George Catlin
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Who called on his Puritan heritage to explore themes of sin, guilt, and evil?
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Nathanial Hawthorne
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Who explored the themes of frontier wilderness vs. civilization in The Last of the Mohicans?
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Who captured the democratic spirit of the nation and showed the American political process?
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George Caleb Bingharn
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Who conveyed the epic sweep of America's history in well-crafted, easily understood verse?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This book follows the lives of a pioneer family that settles in Kentucky after the War of 1812. The story illustrates how the family struggles against nature to build a successful life on the frontier.
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Yes
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This painting shows part of an American city. In the foreground are rows of tenement buildings. In the background are several factories, belching black smoke into the sky.
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No
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This book tells the story of an industrialist in New York who bribes city officials in order to increase his profits. The story's protagonist is a Yale graduate whose family was exceedingly wealthy.
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No
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This painting depicts a western Pennsylvania farmstead with a house in the middle. On the left is a field, and a man walks behind a plow being pulled by two horses. Children play by a pond to the right of the house.
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Yes
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This book follows one man's struggle for redemption as he searches for the son he left at an orphanage as a baby. Consumed with guilt, the father braves the western frontier, following the family that adopted the boy.
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Yes
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This painting shows the inside of a rural Ohio courthouse. A lawyer speaks to the jury. In the background, the local citizenry—mostly farmers, shopkeepers, and factory workers—sit on benches, listening intently to the lawyer.
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Yes
