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Question #1
Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
A.   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
B.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
C.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
D.   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.
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.   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
B.   portraits of some of the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas
C.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
D.   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
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.   James Fenimore Cooper.
B.   Walt Whitman.
C.   Edgar Allan Poe.
D.   Sydney Smith.
E.   Herman Melville.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
B.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
D.   felt every individual should balance society’s expectations with one’s own instincts.
E.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
Question #5
Shaker societies
A.   asserted that God was female.
B.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
C.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
D.   established most of their communities in the South.
E.   saw women exercise more power than men.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   Its founder was murdered.
B.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
C.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
D.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
E.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
Question #7
According to the nineteenth-century “science” of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual’s skull?
A.   chances of having children
B.   life expectancy
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.   William Morton.
B.   James Warren.
C.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
D.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
E.   Edward Jenner.
Question #9
Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?
A.   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B.   Rachel Eaton
C.   “Mother” Ann Lee
D.   Sojourner Truth
E.   Harriet Tubman
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.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   Elijah Lovejoy.
D.   Benjamin Lundy.
E.   William Lloyd Garrison.

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