Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

The search for social discipline was particularly clear in the battle over prohibition laws, which pitted established Catholics against new Protestants immigrants, to many of whom drinking was an important social ritual and an integral part of the life of their communities.

The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

Of the major experiments in utopian living, which do you believe had the most long-term influence on modern society? Explain.

James Fenimore Cooper thought Americans should become more like Europeans.

Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed efforts to regulate the profession. They considered the licensing of physicians to be "undemocratic."

Above all, nineteenth-century reform movements in the United States promoted racial equality.

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

One of the more radical doctrines the Mormons followed was the marriage practice known as ________.

In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

Not many abolitionists believed that Congress could constitutionally interfere with a "domestic" institution such as slavery within the individual states themselves.

American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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

Frederick Douglass

Herman Melville was less exuberant in his celebration of the human spirit than was Walt Whitman.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, ________ epidemics devastated several American cities.

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights

The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

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

Discuss the various ideas and divisions within the antislavery movement.

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