THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (C).THE FACTORY SYSTEM DID NOT EXIST IN THEU...

27. The correct answer is (C).The factory system did not exist in theUnited States until the nineteenth century. Influenced by the themesof European Romanticism, choice (A), the artists and writers of theearly republic set out to establish a national identity through theirworks. For example, James Fenimore Cooper in his novels andGeorge Caleb Bingham and George Catlin in their paintings usedNative Americans, frontier life, and nature as themes, choices (B)and (D). Writers like Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthornedrew on the colonial past for themes, choice (E).