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Question #1
Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
A.   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.
B.   pessimistic assumption of the natural weakness of individuals.
C.   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
D.   declining importance placed on religious piety.
E.   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
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.   canvases that tended to be very large in size
C.   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
D.   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
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.   James Fenimore Cooper.
B.   Herman Melville.
C.   Walt Whitman.
D.   Edgar Allan Poe.
E.   Sydney Smith.
Question #4
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
A.   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
B.   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
C.   felt every individual should balance society’s expectations with one’s own instincts.
D.   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
E.   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Question #5
Shaker societies
A.   first began in the United States in the 1840s.
B.   asserted that God was female.
C.   established most of their communities in the South.
D.   saw women exercise more power than men.
E.   were eventually forced to move to Utah.
Question #6
Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
A.   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
B.   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
C.   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
D.   Its founder was murdered.
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.   future earning potential
B.   character and intelligence
C.   life expectancy
D.   chances of having children
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.   Ignaz Semmelweis.
C.   William Morton.
D.   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
E.   Edward Jenner.
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.   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C.   Sojourner Truth
D.   Harriet Tubman
E.   “Mother” Ann Lee
Question #10
The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was
A.   Benjamin Lundy.
B.   Frederick Douglass.
C.   William Lloyd Garrison.
D.   David Walker.
E.   Elijah Lovejoy.

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