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The transcendentalist movement

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) All the answers are correct.
E) None of the answers are correct.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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Prior to the Civil War, Southern writers

A) developed a realist tradition that focused on the lives of ordinary people.
B) romanticized the institution of slavery.
C) brought a robust, vulgar humor to American literature.
D) All the answers are correct.
E) None of the answers are correct.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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

Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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

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

The most important and popular American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century were known as the ________________________.

The mid-nineteenth-century "age of reforms" was simultaneously attracted to ideas of personal liberty and social order.

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

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

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

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

Hudson River School artists felt America had more promise than Europe.

Reformers believed the concept of Indian reservations was beneficial to both whites and Indians.

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

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

By the 1840s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott sought to apply the equality of treatment they received in the abolition movement to all aspects of female life.

The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was

John Humphrey Noyes is to be associated with the ____________ community.

William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism.