Question 1

The transcendentalists

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A)   understood the interconnectedness of species.
B)   understood the interconnectedness of species and made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
C)   anticipated the environmental movement of the twentieth century.
D)   made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

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A)   integrate Indians with white society.
B)   create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations.
C)   allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
D)   None of these answers is correct.
E)   allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society.F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 3

Walt Whitman

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A)   rejected much of romanticism.
B)   was a strong critic of American democracy.
C)   became a strong defender of southern institutions, especially slavery.
D)   intensely disagreed with the American transcendentalists.
E)   celebrated the liberation of the individual spirit.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 4

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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A)   felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts.
B)   was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C)   argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
D)   argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
E)   established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.F) None of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 5

Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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A)   Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.
B)   Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
C)   Its founder was murdered.
D)   It developed a very fluid, loose social structure.
E)   The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

The romantic movement was invented in American intellectual circles.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Transcendentalists

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A)   believed every person's goal should be the cultivation of "reason."
B)   rejected European intellectuals.
C)   believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism.
D)   argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals.
E)   argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

Discuss the various ideas of and divisions within the antislavery movement.

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Question 9

The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" included a demand that women have the right to vote.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Prior to the Civil War,free blacks in the North tended to be

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A)   indifferent to slavery in the South.
B)   in favor of the "back to Africa" movement.
C)   strongly opposed to southern slavery.
D)   deeply antagonistic toward William Lloyd Garrison.
E)   anxious to leave the United States.F) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 11

The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v.Pennsylvania (1842)

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A)  led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."
B)  prohibited the interstate slave trade.
C)  abolished slavery in the District of Columbia.
D)  angered abolitionists.
E)  forced state officials to assist in the capture of runaways.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT

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A)   James Whistler.
B)   Asher Durand.
C)   Thomas Cole.
D)   Frederic Church.
E)   Albert Bierstadt.F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 13

The Oneida Community sought to redefine gender roles and engage in "free love."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Ralph Waldo Emerson started as a minister and became a transcendentalist philosopher.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

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A)   declining importance placed on religious piety.
B)   desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
C)   pessimistic assumption of the natural weakness of individuals.
D)   fear that civil war was going to engulf the nation.
E)   belief that society needed to break free from its old traditions.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 16

Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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A)   took the lead in the cause to end slavery.
B)   believed temperance was detracting from other, loftier reform movements.
C)   sought to revive the ideals of Calvinism.
D)   argued that personal salvation could be achieved by individual effort.
E)   believed that no individual could control his or her personal salvation.F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

In the 1840s in the United States,an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by

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A)   Ignaz Semmelweis.
B)   James Warren.
C)   William Morton.
D)   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
E)   Edward Jenner.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 18

The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Question 20

The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

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A)   show scenes of American aristocracy at play.
B)   evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape.
C)   depict the Founding Fathers hard at work.
D)   make realistic depictions of rural white American life.
E)   celebrate the achievements of the American military.F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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The transcendentalists

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Transcendentalists

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Walt Whitman

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The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" included a demand that women have the right to vote.

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