Question 1

In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

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A)   by radicals and moderates within their ranks.
B)   over whether or not to use violence.
C)   by calls for northern and southern separation.
D)   over the question of free-soil, colonization, or full emancipation.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 2

Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

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

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A)   "Mother" Ann Lee
B)   Harriet Tubman
C)   Sojourner Truth
D)   Rachel Eaton
E)   Elizabeth Cady StantonF) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

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) B) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 5

In the 1840s, William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

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A)   equality for women.
B)   defensive wars.
C)   ending the asylum system.
D)   northern disunion from the South.
E)   extreme pacifism.F) None of the above
G) All of the above

Question 6

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)   Frederick Douglass.
C)   Elijah Lovejoy.
D)   Benjamin Lundy.
E)   David Walker.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

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Question 9

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 B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________ experiment in communal living.

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The answer of Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________...

Question 11

The American Colonization Society called for the gradual freeing of slaves and monetary compensation to slaves' former owners.

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A) True 
 B)False

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

Question 13

Transcendentalists

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A)   rejected European intellectuals.
B)   regarded reason to be the most important human faculty.
C)   argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals.
D)   believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism.
E)   argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."F) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 14

Americans in the free-soil movement sought to open up sections of the West to blacks.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

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A)   included the practice of solitary confinement.
B)   led to widespread calls to end capital punishment.
C)   focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation.
D)   began largely in the West and spread to the East.
E)   decried the racial bias of the judicial system.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

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

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A)   Walt Whitman.
B)   Herman Melville.
C)   James Fenimore Cooper.
D)   Edgar Allan Poe.
E)   Sydney Smith.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

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

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The answer of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem was...

Question 20

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) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.

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