Question 1

Sylvester Graham encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

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

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A)   the Caribbean.
B)   Liberia.
C)   Angola.
D)   England.
E)   Canada.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 3

The transcendentalist movement

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A)   anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century.
B)   understood the interconnectedness of species.
C)   made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
D)   understood the interconnectedness of species and made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 4

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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A)   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B)   felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts.
C)   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
D)   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
E)   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

Like other mid-nineteenth-century experiments in social organization,Mormons believed in human perfectibility.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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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In the colonial period, American medical...

Question 7

The study of the human brain through phrenology was the origin of modern psychology.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.

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Question 9

Shaker societies

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A)   asserted that God was female.
B)   established most of their communities in the South.
C)   saw women exercise more power than men.
D)   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
E)   were eventually forced to move to Utah.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 10

Joseph Smith and Elijah Lovejoy were both ________.

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Question 11

Prior to the Civil War,the Liberty Party

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A)   supported the rights of slave owners.
B)   opposed the admission of California into the Union in 1850.
C)   promoted "free soil."
D)   focused on strengthening the fugitive slave laws.
E)   campaigned for outright abolition.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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

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William Lloyd Garrison helped the cause ...

Question 14

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A)   believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals.
B)   asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment.
C)   was a leading critic of the American political system.
D)   asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society.
E)   remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 16

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

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A)   absence of regulations in the medical profession.
B)   absence of basic knowledge about disease.
C)   low social status of medical professionals.
D)   difficulty of medical experimentation.
E)   apathy of the general population towards preventive health.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

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

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A)   was one of growing respect and admiration.
B)   was that American artists had little to offer Europe.
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) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 18

The most distinctive feature of the Shakers was their commitment to ________.

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Question 19

Frederick Douglass

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

Question 20

The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

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A)   make realistic depictions of rural white American life.
B)   show scenes of American aristocracy at play.
C)   depict the Founding Fathers hard at work.
D)   celebrate the achievements of the American military.
E)   evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape.F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sylvester Graham encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat.

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Shaker societies

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The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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Frederick Douglass

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