Question 1

Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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formed a crusade against personal immorality

Question 2

Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments

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True

Question 3

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River School EXCEPT

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james whistler

Question 4

Henry David Thoreau favored the solitary life, but was publicly against civil disobedience

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false

Question 5

Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

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Quakers

Question 6

In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with

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abolition

Question 7

Prior to the Civil War, southern writers

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developed a realist tradition that focused on the lives of ordinary people; brought a robust, vulgar humor to American literature; and romanticized the institution of slavery

Question 8

Walt whitman

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Correct Answer: celebrated the liberation of the individual.

Question 9

Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty PartyAnswer

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promoted free soil.

Question 10

Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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Moby Dick.

Question 11

Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 12

During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

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absence of basic knowledge about disease

Question 13

One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was

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Oneida.

Question 14

All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

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Sydney Smith.

Question 15

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rightsAnswer

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issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.

Question 16

Transcendentalists

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regarded reason to be the most important human faculty

Question 17

Reformers of the pre-Civil War period thought it was possible to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement.

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true

Question 18

In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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None of these answers is correct

Question 19

Shaker societies

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saw women exercise more power than men.

Question 20

Frederick Douglass

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spent years lecturing in England against slavery.

Question 21

One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

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Elijah Lovejoy.

Question 22

In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

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carefully monitored sexual behavior in order to protect women

Question 23

The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.

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True

Question 24

Evangelical Protestantism was at odds with the reform spirit of the pre-Civil War period.

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false

Question 25

The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to

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permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings.

Question 26

In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature

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was that American artists had little to offer Europe

Question 27

The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were

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primarily sad and macabre

Question 28

Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of

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America's westward expansion

Question 29

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States

Question 30

The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

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democracy

Question 31

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

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stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites

Question 32

The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

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isolate and protect the Indians from white society, help regenerate them, and allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.

Question 33

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

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asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment

Question 34

Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

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included the practice of solitary confinement.

Question 35

Nearly a quarter of the population of New Orleans died in 1833 as a result of a cholera outbreak

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true

Question 36

In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

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All these answers are correct.

Question 37

Mark Twain was the leading writer in the southern romantic tradition.

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false

Question 38

Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be

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strongly opposed to southern slavery

Question 39

Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

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gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

Question 40

William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism

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false

Question 41

In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United States

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typically killed more than half of those who contracted the disease

Question 42

The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

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natural beauty

Question 43

In the 1840s, William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

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defensive wars.

Question 44

In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

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linked alcohol to crime and poverty

Question 45

Many blacks rejected the American Colonization Society's offer to return them to Africa.

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true

Question 46

The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States t

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Liberia.

Question 47

The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

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spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience

Question 48

Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

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desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change

Question 49

Edgar Allan Poe's writings focused on the bleak nature of the human spirit and emotions

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true

Question 50

Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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It advocated sexual equality.

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