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Why did a feminist movement come into being in the United States during the 1840s?

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Question 2

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

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

Question 3

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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One major experiment in utopian living t...

Question 4

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

Question 5

William Lloyd Garrison was a harsh critic of the United States government.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v.Pennsylvania (1842)

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A)   prohibited the interstate slave trade.
B)   led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."
C)   angered abolitionists.
D)   abolished slavery in the District of Columbia.
E)   forced state officials to assist in the capture of runaways.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

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)   the American free-enterprise system.
C)   religious spiritualism in America.
D)   racism in America.
E)   slavery in the democratic mind.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 8

In the 1830s,abolitionists in the United States constituted

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A)   a small percentage of the national population.
B)   approximately one-quarter of the national population.
C)   the majority of the population in the North.
D)   the largest reform movement in the nation.
E)   approximately one-third of the national population.F) All of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 9

Why did most communal living "experiments" generally quickly fail?

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Question 10

One of the more radical doctrines the Mormons followed was the marriage practice known as ________.

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Question 11

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Prior to 1860,public education in the United States

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A)   did not exist.
B)   gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
C)   was legally denied for all non-whites.
D)   was funded by the federal government.
E)   emphasized independence and creativity.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 13

What elements of romanticism can be found in mid-nineteenth-century American art and literature?

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Question 14

Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River School?

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A)   canvases that tended to be very large in size
B)   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
C)   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
D)   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
E)   portraits of some of the nation's most spectacular and undeveloped areasF) C) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 15

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

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A)   integrate Indians with white society.
B)   create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations.
C)   allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society.
D)   allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 16

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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

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A)   create a society where individuals did not have to work.
B)   allow individuals to live without any social limits on their behavior.
C)   eliminate social sexual discrimination through the practice of celibacy.
D)   help individuals link the world of the intellect to the world of instinct and nature.
E)   show that communal living was more efficient and productive than family life.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 18

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem was titled "________."

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Question 19

What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Question 20

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

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A)   issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
B)   asserted that women should have a place in society distinctly different from that of men.
C)   refused to allow men to attend.
D)   called on the government to treat both genders and all races with equality.
E)   shied away from demanding female suffrage, as this was too radical at the time.F) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

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