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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.   pessimistic assumption of the natural weakness of individuals.
D.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
E.   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
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.   Sydney Smith.
B.   Walt Whitman.
C.   James Fenimore Cooper.
D.   Edgar Allan Poe.
E.   Herman Melville.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
B.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
C.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
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.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
B.   saw women exercise more power than men.
C.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
D.   established most of their communities in the South.
E.   asserted that God was female.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
B.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
C.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
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.   life expectancy
B.   character and intelligence
C.   chances of having children
D.   future earning potential
E.   likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
Question #8
In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by
A.   James Warren.
B.   Edward Jenner.
C.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
D.   William Morton.
E.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
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.   Elijah Lovejoy.
B.   David Walker.
C.   William Lloyd Garrison.
D.   Frederick Douglass.
E.   Benjamin Lundy.

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