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Chapter 15 (Choose 5 of the 8 questions to answer)Why does Wood think that the view that Americans were “provincial and imitative” misses the point of the cultural aims of the Revolution?What was the “republic of letters?”What was the neoclassical transformation of the arts?Who was Charles Wilson Peale and how did he promote the republican ideals of post-Revolution culture?Why does Wood mention Marietta, Ohio?What was the purpose of the arts in the early republic?What does Wood mean by “a vulgar perversion of the ennobling art of history-writing” (565)?What was the arts’ influence on democracy and vice versa?
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