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Clep 1890 Art & Ed
1890 Art & Education
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ___expanded greatly between 1870 and 1890. The Morrill Act of 1862 ultimately resulted in the creation of 12 new state colleges, 8 agricultural and mechanical colleges, and 6 black colleges. | Education |
| The ____ of 1862 was a major boost to higher education in America. It is also known as the Land Grant College Act. In many of the Southern states, blacks were prohibited from attending colleges formed from these land grants. | Morrill Act |
| Horatio Alger was a writer of the late 1800s who wrote young-adult novels which popularized the ___ myth. The characters in his novels normally succeeded through luck, more than sheer determination. | rags to riches |
| ___ was a famous author from the late 1800s. Many of his books had the theme that anyone could succeed, although his characters often succeeded more through luck than determination. | Horatio Alger |
| A style of jazz known as ____, which started out as part of an African American tradition, became part of American popular music in the late nineteenth century. | Ragtime |
| ___ was one of the great ragtime composers and is known as the King of Ragtime. | Scott Joplin |
| The main literary style of American writers after the ____ was realism. | Civil War |
| ____ was the central literary style for American writers in the late 1800s. It is a style of literature which represents events and social conditions as they actually are--without idealization.\ | Realism |
| The Turner Theory argues that the ___ was what distinguished the United States from Europe, that it was responsible for producing the practicality, energy, and individualism of the American character. | frontier |
| ___ argued that the frontier distinguished the United States from Europe. Not only had it shaped American history, but it had shaped American character and life. His paper was called "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." | Frederick Jackson Turner |
| Mark Twain was the first major American writer born west of the ____ mountains. | Appalachian |
| ____ who used the pen name Mark Twain, is famous for books such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." | Samuel Clemens |
| Which of the following was the author of popular dime novels about young men who rose from rags to riches? a. Mark Twain b. Bret Harte c. Hamlin Garland d. Stephen Crane e. Horatio Alger | e. Horatio Alger |
| Who has been called 'The Father of Progressive Education'? | John Dewey |
| What 'pragmatist' philosopher influenced John Dewey? | William James |
| Two goals of John Dewey were: | To alter the content and purpose of schooling and to socialize the child through his peer group. |
| Was John Dewey particularly concerned with strengthening a child's respect for parental (or any) authority? | No |
| John Dewey's educational theory? | Education should be based on learning by doing. |
| Higher education responded to the changes in society and the economy in the late 1800s by | building colleges that conferred degrees in the applied sciences. |
| ____ is a mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture. This art removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, collage effect. | pop art |
| ___ is the general attempt to 'paint real to life' without embellishment or interpretation. | realism art |
| ___ departures from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. | abstract Art |
| ___ works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and fantasy like | surrealism |
| "I never knew of but one artist, and that's Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they thought ought to be rather than what is." Tom Eakins must paint in which of the following styles? a. Ashcan b. Realism c. Impressionism | b. Realism |
| The Ashcan School is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in ___ poorer neighborhoods. | New York's |
| ____ paintings include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on the accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities | Impressionist |
| ____ is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image | Pointillism |
| ____ art creates a heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and "pure" nature. | Romanticism |
| ___ is a style of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. | Op art |
| All of the following were considered women's work in the latter half of the 1800s EXCEPT a. teaching. b. sales clerking. c. nursing. d. practicing law. e. secretarial work. | d. practicing law. |
| ____ distorts or exaggerates the news to attract readers and create a sensation. It played a major role in stirring up anti-Spanish sentiment in the United States and getting the nation into the Spanish-American War. | Yellow Journalism |
| ____ and Joseph Pulitzer are two of the first, and most famous American newspaper publishers associated with the use of yellow journalism. | William Randolph Hearst |
| William Randolph Hearst and ___ were two leading American newspaper publishers who used yellow journalism to boost sales of their newspapers. | Joseph Pulitzer |
| William Randolph Hearst's name is often synonymous with 'yellow journalism,' although the term was___ used to describe the style of journalism of Joseph Pulitzer. | originally |
| Social Darwinism is the concept of ____ | survival of the fittest society. |
| Social Darwinism, combined with the popular idea that the US had an obligation to spread political liberty, Christianity, and civilization to the rest of the world helped encourage and rationalize United States ___ and involvement in world affairs. | expansion |
| When did Gospel and Country music emerge? | The late 1920's and 1930's. |
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