The Hudson River school artists lived and worked in the first half of the nineteenth century. What connections do you see between the concerns of their art and other ideas of the moment? Specifically consider America's westward expansion and manifest destiny.

The Hudson River school famous for its American landscapes.

Explanation:

The Hudson River School was a large group of painters who painted paintings of the America landscape. These painters were heavily nationalistic who stood proud of their unique style of painting which separated them from European schools. The famous Hudson River School artists were Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, and Thomas Doughty.

The painters of the Hudson River School celebrated the wildness in romantic expressions. They introduced their landscapes with accuracy and pure beauty. As the United States extended towards westward, replacing Indian nations and the landscapes became part of the themes in the school, it also helped in the national debate.

in the 1900s, the united states was still a largely agrarian society with a very fast growing industrial and manufactering sector.

the south of the country was the bread basket of the country with large farm lands making up a majority of the economy.

in the north and more specficially north-west, growing manufactering and export sector had made the united states into a powerful exporting country.

this peaked in the 50s and 60s when the united states became the largest economy in the world and the largest exporter.

today, the majority of the united states economy is made up of the services sector that includes banking, insurance, music, movies, hotels etc.