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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.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
D.   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.
E.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
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.   Sydney Smith.
B.   Walt Whitman.
C.   Herman Melville.
D.   James Fenimore Cooper.
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.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
C.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
D.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
E.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
Question #5
Shaker societies
A.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
B.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
C.   established most of their communities in the South.
D.   saw women exercise more power than men.
E.   asserted that God was female.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
B.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
C.   Its founder was murdered.
D.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
E.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
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.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
B.   James Warren.
C.   Edward Jenner.
D.   William Morton.
E.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Question #9
Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?
A.   Harriet Tubman
B.   “Mother” Ann Lee
C.   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D.   Rachel Eaton
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.   Elijah Lovejoy.
B.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   Benjamin Lundy.
D.   David Walker.
E.   William Lloyd Garrison.

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