History 101 - United States History to 1877 » 2019 » Chapter 12 Quiz

Need help with your exam preparation?

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

Need help with your exam preparation?

Existing Quiz Clients Login here