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Question #1
Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
A.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
B.   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.
C.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
D.   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
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.   canvases that tended to be very large in size
B.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
C.   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
D.   portraits of some of the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas
E.   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
Question #3
All of the following writers helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
A.   Walt Whitman.
B.   Sydney Smith.
C.   Herman Melville.
D.   Edgar Allan Poe.
E.   James Fenimore Cooper.
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.   established most of their communities in the South.
B.   asserted that God was female.
C.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
D.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
E.   saw women exercise more power than men.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   Its founder was murdered.
B.   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
C.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
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.   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.   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.   Sojourner Truth
B.   Harriet Tubman
C.   “Mother” Ann Lee
D.   Rachel Eaton
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.   Frederick Douglass.
B.   Elijah Lovejoy.
C.   William Lloyd Garrison.
D.   David Walker.
E.   Benjamin Lundy.

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