America's artistic achievements in the first half of the nineteenth century
a. borrowed heavily from existing european styles in painting and architecture.
b. illustrated a gradual shaking off the religious restraints of the puritans.
c. were included after the war of 1812, turning away from human portraits and history paintings to pastoral depictions of local landscapes.
d. all of these choices are correct.
e. included the use of new technologies such as the daguerreotype, a crude early form of photography.