APUSH Chapter 11

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Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?
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The Second Great Awakening
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?
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Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.
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The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?
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Transcendentalism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?
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He argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.
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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual's mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization?
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Spending time alone in nature
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The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?
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Promoting the spread of knowledge through public lectures
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Which of the following statements about Emerson is correct?
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He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion.
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Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden?
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It was written to document Walden's spiritual search for meaning beyond the artificiality of "civilized" life.
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Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?
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Individuality
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Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?
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Transcendentalism
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Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?
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Margaret Fuller
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Which of the following is properly paired?
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Walt Whitman—Leaves of Grass
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Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?
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They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.
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Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?
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They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life.
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In the late 1840s and the 1850s, Emersonians did which of the following?
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Abandoned their quest to create new social institutions
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The Shakers' name came from which of the following?
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Their particular form of worship
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Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?
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They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.
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Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America?
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It demonstrated the difficulty of creating enduring utopian communities.
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Which of the following was an evangelical movement that believed the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and people could attain complete freedom from sin?
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Perfectionism
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The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?
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Complex marriage
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Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?
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They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.
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Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830?
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It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection.
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Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at Nauvoo in the early 1840s?
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Mormons' power as a voting bloc in local elections
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For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed?
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Mormon society had strong, hierarchical leadership.
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Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Immigration
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Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century?
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The subsistence wages and exploitative conditions of women's jobs
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Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?
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They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.
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Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Minstrel shows
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In the early 1800s, free blacks in the North were encouraged to "elevate" themselves through which of the following activities?
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Temperance
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In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?
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He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.
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Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?
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Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.
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As a result of Turner's Rebellion, the Virginia legislature did which of the following in the 1830s?
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It debated but rejected a bill providing for gradual emancipation and colonization.
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Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?
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He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.
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How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?
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Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
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In their book American Slavery as It Is, Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters
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presented testimony from individual southerners about the evils of slavery.
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In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics?
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Sponsoring public lectures and collecting signatures on antislavery petitions
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Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?
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Aid to fugitive slaves
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Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?
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Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.
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Mob violence against abolitionist efforts in the 1830s and 1840s was
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often directed against "respectable" black organizations such as churches and against orphanages.
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What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?
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The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.
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By the early 1840s, Garrison and his supporters in the American Anti-Slavery Society had transformed their agenda in which of the following ways?
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They advocated a broad-based reform program, embracing women's rights as well as the rights of American blacks.
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Who founded the Liberty Party in 1840?
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Antislavery leaders who had broken with Garrison
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The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?
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The Second Great Awakening
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Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey's Lady's Book and Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?
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Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity
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What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?
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To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families
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Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following?
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Made seduction of women a crime
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Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?
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Educational reform
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Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852?
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Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading to slave women.
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During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?
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Strengthening the legal rights of married women