Question 1

Frederick Douglass was the founder of the abolitionist newspaper the North Star.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following did Unitarianism stress?

Accepted Answer

A)  reason and conscience 
B)  creeds and confessions 
C)  belief in the Holy Trinity 
D)  ritualistic practices 
E)  belief in prophecy and miracles 
A)  reason and conscience 
B)  creeds and confessions 
C)  belief in the Holy Trinity 
D)  ritualistic practices 
E)  belief in prophecy and miracles

Question 3

Margaret Fuller edited the Dial, an experimental transcendentalist journal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Match each description with the item below.
-Peter Cartwright

Accepted Answer

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and hosted fugitive slaves 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer who equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada 
A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and hosted fugitive slaves 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer who equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

Question 5

Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of democracy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Members of the Shaker community

Accepted Answer

A)  believed that Jesus Christ had returned to Earth in the 1820s. 
B)  practiced free love and polygamy. 
C)  were not permitted to leave after their "initiation." 
D)  practiced celibacy and owned everything in common. 
E)  increased their numbers by having large families. 
A)  believed that Jesus Christ had returned to Earth in the 1820s. 
B)  practiced free love and polygamy. 
C)  were not permitted to leave after their "initiation." 
D)  practiced celibacy and owned everything in common. 
E)  increased their numbers by having large families.

Question 7

Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  The quality of a public education was better than that of private schools in most cities at the time. 
B)  The children of the working poor would be guaranteed to no longer need to labor in factories or do farm work. 
C)  The South, where many of the working poor lived, had been the region initiating and leading the public school movement. 
D)  The working poor wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream. 
E)  Building public schools promised to expand the number of construction jobs and therefore greatly improve employment prospects. 
A)  The quality of a public education was better than that of private schools in most cities at the time. 
B)  The children of the working poor would be guaranteed to no longer need to labor in factories or do farm work. 
C)  The South, where many of the working poor lived, had been the region initiating and leading the public school movement. 
D)  The working poor wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream. 
E)  Building public schools promised to expand the number of construction jobs and therefore greatly improve employment prospects.

Question 8

The "cult of domesticity" was the idea that

Accepted Answer

A)  women deserved education. 
B)  professions should be open to women. 
C)  romantic love was the basis of successful marriage. 
D)  large families were beneficial. 
E)  a woman's place is in the home. 
A)  women deserved education. 
B)  professions should be open to women. 
C)  romantic love was the basis of successful marriage. 
D)  large families were beneficial. 
E)  a woman's place is in the home.

Question 9

Which of the following writers proved perhaps the most controversial American writer of the nineteenth century, was a political activist, wrote excitedly about industrial development, and
Penned the controversial, free-verse work Leaves of Grass?

Accepted Answer

A)  Edgar Allan Poe 
B)  Emily Dickinson 
C)  Walt Whitman 
D)  Nathaniel Hawthorne 
E)  Ralph Waldo Emerson 
A)  Edgar Allan Poe 
B)  Emily Dickinson 
C)  Walt Whitman 
D)  Nathaniel Hawthorne 
E)  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 10

A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which of the following did southerners use to attempt to justify slavery?

Accepted Answer

A)  claims of black racial inferiority and the idea that slavery was rooted in the Bible 
B)  the lack of competition for white jobs and the decline of the cotton industry 
C)  the threat of British cotton production exceeding America's because Britain had more slaves 
D)  the fact that slavery was more widespread in the western territories than in the South 
E)  widespread West African support of American slavery and the slave trade 
A)  claims of black racial inferiority and the idea that slavery was rooted in the Bible 
B)  the lack of competition for white jobs and the decline of the cotton industry 
C)  the threat of British cotton production exceeding America's because Britain had more slaves 
D)  the fact that slavery was more widespread in the western territories than in the South 
E)  widespread West African support of American slavery and the slave trade

Question 12

The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it

Accepted Answer

A)  allowed women to join. 
B)  called for total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages. 
C)  allowed members to drink beer and wine. 
D)  promoted the interests of poor immigrants. 
E)  became too involved in politics. 
A)  allowed women to join. 
B)  called for total abstinence from all alcoholic beverages. 
C)  allowed members to drink beer and wine. 
D)  promoted the interests of poor immigrants. 
E)  became too involved in politics.

Question 13

Why was western New York referred to as the burned-over district?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Oneida Community's numerous silver forges and coal mines left a smoky haze over the region and complicated western travel. 
B)  Sinfulness had been wiped out of the region such that preachers held it up in their sermons as a model religious community. 
C)  The area had seen numerous religious movements and denominations sweep through the population, roiled by evangelical revivalism. 
D)  The area's overwhelming turn away from religion signaled the end of the era of Jacksonian democracy. 
E)  A long and widespread drought had caused numerous fires in the region, and a record number of American lives were lost. 
A)  The Oneida Community's numerous silver forges and coal mines left a smoky haze over the region and complicated western travel. 
B)  Sinfulness had been wiped out of the region such that preachers held it up in their sermons as a model religious community. 
C)  The area had seen numerous religious movements and denominations sweep through the population, roiled by evangelical revivalism. 
D)  The area's overwhelming turn away from religion signaled the end of the era of Jacksonian democracy. 
E)  A long and widespread drought had caused numerous fires in the region, and a record number of American lives were lost.

Question 14

Describe the various facets and accomplishments and limitations of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

The women's movement of the first half o

Question 15

Match each description with the item below.
-Julia Ward Howe

Accepted Answer

A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and hosted fugitive slaves 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer who equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada 
A) was able to devote most of her attention as an unmarried woman to the women's movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention 
B) was the most successful circuit rider and went on to run for Congress against Abraham Lincoln 
C) gave riveting speeches against slavery, became the first woman officer in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and hosted fugitive slaves 
D) was the founder of the Shakers and was thought to be a prophet and seer who equated cleanliness, hard work, and chastity with saintliness 
E) gathered a group of "Perfectionists" in Vermont, banned private property, and proclaimed a new doctrine called "complex marriage"
F)was a poet who would become a leader of the women's suffrage movement after her oppressive husband's death
G)was a leading but controversial health reformer who promoted a strict diet and discouraged sexual activity
H)advocated for the reform of insane asylums and proved the most important figure in boosting awareness of the plight of the mentally ill
I)was an escaped slave who became a leading anti-slavery advocate, a traveling speaker, and the best-known man of color in America
J)was a former slave who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and helped runaway slaves cross the border into Canada

Question 16

The word "teetotaler" originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

In what way was Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy profoundly influential in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  It helped shift the official status of women well beyond what it had been in the colonial era because it put pressure on male politicians. 
B)  It argued convincingly that women should enter the man's sphere of professions in order to contribute to the American economy. 
C)  It served as a call to action for two breakthroughs for women of the time: the right to serve on juries and sign contracts. 
D)  It called upon women to accept their roles and promoted the idea that women should be trained not for the workplace but for the domestic arts. 
E)  It represented the views of all middle-class women who devoted themselves to improving the quality of life in America. 
A)  It helped shift the official status of women well beyond what it had been in the colonial era because it put pressure on male politicians. 
B)  It argued convincingly that women should enter the man's sphere of professions in order to contribute to the American economy. 
C)  It served as a call to action for two breakthroughs for women of the time: the right to serve on juries and sign contracts. 
D)  It called upon women to accept their roles and promoted the idea that women should be trained not for the workplace but for the domestic arts. 
E)  It represented the views of all middle-class women who devoted themselves to improving the quality of life in America.

Question 18

African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist religions especially attractive because of their

Accepted Answer

A)  belief in the social equality of all before God. 
B)  condemnation of racial discrimination by all participants. 
C)  stoic and serious church services. 
D)  lack of Bible studies. 
E)  small number of churches and resulting privacy. 
A)  belief in the social equality of all before God. 
B)  condemnation of racial discrimination by all participants. 
C)  stoic and serious church services. 
D)  lack of Bible studies. 
E)  small number of churches and resulting privacy.

Question 19

The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.

Accepted Answer

In antebellum America, there were signif

Exam 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform

Frederick Douglass was the founder of the abolitionist newspaper the North Star.

Which of the following did Unitarianism stress?

Margaret Fuller edited the Dial, an experimental transcendentalist journal.

Match each description with the item below. -Peter Cartwright

Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of democracy.

Members of the Shaker community

Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools in the first half of the nineteenth century?

The "cult of domesticity" was the idea that

Which of the following writers proved perhaps the most controversial American writer of the nineteenth century, was a political activist, wrote excitedly about industrial development, and Penned the controversial, free-verse work Leaves of Grass?

A Treatise on Domestic Economy argued that men and women should share equally in completing the work of the household's domestic sphere.

Which of the following did southerners use to attempt to justify slavery?

The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it

Why was western New York referred to as the burned-over district?

Describe the various facets and accomplishments and limitations of the women's movement of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Match each description with the item below. -Julia Ward Howe

The word "teetotaler" originated with a temperance society's use of the letter "T" to signify total abstinence.

In what way was Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy profoundly influential in the first half of the nineteenth century?

African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist religions especially attractive because of their

The intellectual defenses of slavery in the South admitted that the institution offered no benefits to blacks.

Trace the reforms in prisons and asylums in America. Include the major changes in the treatment of prisoners, the disabled, and dependent children in antebellum America.

The Collision of Cultures

Englands Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

From Colonies to States

The American Revolution

Strengthening the New Nation

The Early Republic

The Emergence of a Market Economy

Nationalism and Sectionalism

The Jacksonian Era

The South, Slavery, and King Cotton

Western Expansion

The Gathering Storm

The War of the Union

The Era of Reconstruction

Business and Labor in the Industrial Era

The New South and the New West

Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt

Seizing an American Empire

The Progressive Era

America and the Great War

A Clash of Cultures

The Reactionary Twenties

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The Second World War

The Cold War and the Fair Deal

Cold War America

A New Frontier and a Great Society

Rebellion and Reaction

Conservative Revival

Twenty-First-Century America

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