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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.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
C.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
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.   portraits of some of the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas
B.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
C.   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
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.   Herman Melville.
D.   Edgar Allan Poe.
E.   Walt Whitman.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   felt every individual should balance society’s expectations with one’s own instincts.
B.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
C.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
D.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
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.   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.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
B.   Its founder was murdered.
C.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
D.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
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.   character and intelligence
B.   likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
C.   future earning potential
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.   Edward Jenner.
B.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
C.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
D.   William Morton.
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.   Sojourner Truth
B.   Rachel Eaton
C.   Harriet Tubman
D.   “Mother” Ann Lee
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.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   William Lloyd Garrison.
D.   David Walker.
E.   Benjamin Lundy.

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