Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

How do the ideas of nineteenth-century transcendentalism link to twentieth-century ecology?

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with

John Humphrey Noyes is associated with the ________ community.

Many of the Hudson River School artists expressed a nostalgic view of nature.

Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

If the government required an individual to violate the individual's personal moral code, Henry David Thoreau advocated ________ as a legitimate reply.

The romantic movement was invented by American intellectual circles.

By the 1850s, the principle of tax-supported elementary schools had been established in every state.

According to the transcendentalists, ________ was the highest human faculty.

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

By the beginning of the Civil War, the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.

In the North, abolitionists were a small, dissenting minority of the total population.

During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

By 1860, public schools in the United States had failed to produce significant improvement in education.

Evangelical Protestantism was at odds with the reform spirit of the pre-Civil War period.

Many of the women involved in feminist efforts of this era were ________, as they had been taught to expect the absence of gender-based restrictions in their own communities.

Southern writers such as Augustus B. Longstreet, Joseph G. Baldwin, and Johnson J. Hooper

In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United States