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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.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
D.   pessimistic assumption of the natural weakness of individuals.
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.   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
C.   canvases that tended to be very large in size
D.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
E.   portraits of some of the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas
Question #3
All of the following writers helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
A.   James Fenimore Cooper.
B.   Sydney Smith.
C.   Herman Melville.
D.   Edgar Allan Poe.
E.   Walt Whitman.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
B.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
C.   felt every individual should balance society’s expectations with one’s own instincts.
D.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
E.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Question #5
Shaker societies
A.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
B.   asserted that God was female.
C.   saw women exercise more power than men.
D.   established most of their communities in the South.
E.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
B.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
C.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
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.   future earning potential
C.   likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
D.   life expectancy
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.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
C.   Edward Jenner.
D.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
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.   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B.   Harriet Tubman
C.   “Mother” Ann Lee
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.   William Lloyd Garrison.
B.   David Walker.
C.   Elijah Lovejoy.
D.   Frederick Douglass.
E.   Benjamin Lundy.

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