Question 1

Artists of the Hudson River school felt America had more promise than Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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A)   Moby Dick.
B)   Leaves of Grass.
C)   The Deerslayer.
D)   "The Raven."
E)   Uncle Tom's Cabin.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

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A)   free love
B)   complete celibacy
C)   polygamy
D)   the admittance of women only
E)   communal raising of childrenF) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 4

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

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A)   the yeoman farmer.
B)   democratic ideals.
C)   the founding fathers.
D)   realism.
E)   natural beauty.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 5

Compare American medical care in the colonial period with medical care in the first half of the nineteenth century.What aspects of care had changed and what had remained the same?

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Question 6

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

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A)   ignite such anger in the South that several states soon seceded from the Union.
B)   help humanize southern slaveholders in the minds of northern readers.
C)   reveal the ugly extent of the vicious slave trade to America.
D)   spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.
E)   offer the first written history of American slavery.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

In redefining gender roles,the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

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A)   put fathers in charge of child-rearing and taking care of the home.
B)   demanded celibacy from all its participants.
C)   put women in charge of all major aspects of the community.
D)   carefully monitored sexual behavior in order to protect women.
E)   was a controversial experiment in "free love."F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 8

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

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A)   None of these answers is correct.
B)   were diminished, as physicians gained a basic understanding of bacteria.
C)   typically killed more than half of those who contracted the disease.
D)   were transmitted to humans by fleas living on rats.
E)   led many cities to build water treatment facilities.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 9

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

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A)   grew largely out of immigrant communities.
B)   linked alcohol to crime and poverty.
C)   remained a minor social movement.
D)   was actively opposed by a large majority of Americans.
E)   spent much of its time and resources battling evangelical Protestants.F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?

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Question 11

Frederick Douglass

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A)   was born free but was sold into slavery as a youth.
B)   argued that blacks wanted only an end to slavery, and not full social equality.
C)   wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
D)   spent two years lecturing in England against slavery.
E)   was an ordained minister.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 12

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

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A)   the disorder of America's westward expansion.
B)   religious spiritualism in America.
C)   the American free-enterprise system.
D)   racism in America.
E)   slavery in the democratic mind.F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

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A)  Lucretia Mott.
B)  Susan B.Anthony.
C)  Dorothea Dix.
D)  Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
E)  Angelina Grimke.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 14

American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

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A)   was that American artists had little to offer Europe.
B)   was one of growing respect and admiration.
C)   included praise for American artists for defining a new set of national virtues.
D)   included criticism of American artists for ignoring romanticism.
E)   was that it had been hopelessly corrupted by the ideology of unfettered capitalism.F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 16

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

According to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology,what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?

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A)   character and intelligence
B)   chances of having children
C)   likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
D)   life expectancy
E)   future earning potentialF) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 18

Of the major experiments in utopian living,which do you believe had the most long-term influence on modern society? Explain.

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Question 19

The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was

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A)   William Lloyd Garrison.
B)   Elijah Lovejoy.
C)   David Walker.
D)   Benjamin Lundy.
E)   Frederick Douglass.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 20

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

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A)   temperance.
B)   the abolition of slavery.
C)   woman suffrage.
D)   prostitution.
E)   prison reform.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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