Question 1

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

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

Question 2

How do the ideas of nineteenth-century transcendentalism link to twentieth-century ecology?

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Question 3

Shaker societies

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

Question 4

Mormonism

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A)   always rejected polygamy.
B)   began in the Midwest.
C)   emphasized individual liberty.
D)   believed in human perfectibility.
E)   was founded by Brigham Young.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

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)   focused on strengthening the fugitive slave laws.
D)   promoted "Free Soil."
E)   campaigned for outright abolition.F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

Why were many utopian communities critical of the traditional role and status of women in American society? What alternatives did these communities offer?

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Question 8

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

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A)   allow individuals to live without any social limits on their behavior.
B)   eliminate social sexual discrimination through the practice of celibacy.
C)   show that communal living was more efficient and productive than family life.
D)   create a society where individuals did not have to work.
E)   permit every individual to have full opportunity for self-realization.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.

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Question 11

Southern writers such as Augustus B.Longstreet,Joseph G.Baldwin,and Johnson J.Hooper

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A)  focused on the lives of aristocrats.
B)  felt there was no place for humor in American literature.
C)  developed a realist tradition that focused on the lives of ordinary people.
D)  None of these answers is correct.
E)  romanticized the institution of slavery.F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 12

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

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The feminist movement in the United Stat...

Question 13

The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Prior to 1860,public education in the United States

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

Question 16

Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?

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A)   Nathaniel Hawthorne
B)   Walt Whitman
C)   George Ripley
D)   Robert Owen
E)   John Humphrey NoyesF) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 17

Prior to the Civil War,the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

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A)   Methodists.
B)   Quakers.
C)   Baptists.
D)   Presbyterians.
E)   Unitarians.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A)   asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment.
B)   remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life.
C)   was a leading critic of the American political system.
D)   asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society.
E)   believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

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

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A)   Herman Melville.
B)   James Fenimore Cooper.
C)   Walt Whitman.
D)   Edgar Allan Poe.
E)   Sydney Smith.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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