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Question #1
Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
A.   pessimistic assumption of the natural weakness of individuals.
B.   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
C.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
D.   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.
E.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
Question #2
Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River school?
A.   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
B.   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
C.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
D.   portraits of some of the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas
E.   canvases that tended to be very large in size
Question #3
All of the following writers helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
A.   Walt Whitman.
B.   James Fenimore Cooper.
C.   Edgar Allan Poe.
D.   Sydney Smith.
E.   Herman Melville.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
B.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
C.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
D.   felt every individual should balance society’s expectations with one’s own instincts.
E.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Question #5
Shaker societies
A.   established most of their communities in the South.
B.   asserted that God was female.
C.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
D.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
E.   saw women exercise more power than men.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
B.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
C.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
E.   Its founder was murdered.
Question #7
According to the nineteenth-century “science” of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual’s skull?
A.   character and intelligence
B.   life expectancy
C.   future earning potential
D.   likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
E.   chances of having children
Question #8
In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by
A.   James Warren.
B.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
C.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
D.   Edward Jenner.
E.   William Morton.
Question #9
Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?
A.   Rachel Eaton
B.   “Mother” Ann Lee
C.   Harriet Tubman
D.   Sojourner Truth
E.   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Question #10
The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was
A.   David Walker.
B.   Benjamin Lundy.
C.   Frederick Douglass.
D.   William Lloyd Garrison.
E.   Elijah Lovejoy.

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