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| Washington Irving | one of the first American writers to gain international fame, author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| James Fenimore Cooper | early American historical fiction writer whose stories were based on the American frontier |
| The Last of Mohicans | novel by James Fennimore Cooper set in the time of the French and Indian War |
| Catherine Maria Sedgwick | early American author whose stories included interesting heroines |
| Hudson River School | a group of early American artists whose paintings featured landscapes |
| Thomas Cole | artist and founder of the Hudson River School |
| George Caleb Bingham | American artist whose paintings show the rugged, lonely lives of traders in the West |
| spirituals | a type of folk hymn that contains white and African-American folk-music traditions |
| Greek and Roman Architecture | style many American buildings were modeled after |
