Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Susan B.Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was a promi

Question 2

Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because

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A)  frontier life necessitated these distinctions. 
B)  men were regarded as morally superior beings. 
C)  it was the duty of men to teach the young how to be good, productive citizens. 
D)  the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles. 
E)  women believed this emphasis brought them greater respect. 
A)  frontier life necessitated these distinctions. 
B)  men were regarded as morally superior beings. 
C)  it was the duty of men to teach the young how to be good, productive citizens. 
D)  the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles. 
E)  women believed this emphasis brought them greater respect.

Question 3

The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

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A)  more dependent on a college-educated clergy. 
B)  more reliant on women as members and social reformers. 
C)  less socially and theologically diverse. 
D)  more sympathetic to hierarchical churches like Catholicism. 
E)  more centered on the life of the local parish. 
A)  more dependent on a college-educated clergy. 
B)  more reliant on women as members and social reformers. 
C)  less socially and theologically diverse. 
D)  more sympathetic to hierarchical churches like Catholicism. 
E)  more centered on the life of the local parish.

Question 4

The Mormon religion originated in

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A)  Utah. 
B)  New England. 
C)  Nauvoo, Illinois. 
D)  Ireland. 
E)  the Burned-Over District of New York. 
A)  Utah. 
B)  New England. 
C)  Nauvoo, Illinois. 
D)  Ireland. 
E)  the Burned-Over District of New York.

Question 5

The religious zeal of the Second Great Awakening led to the founding of many small,denominational,liberal arts colleges,chiefly in the

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A)  East. 
B)  South and West. 
C)  North. 
D)  South exclusively. 
E)  West exclusively. 
A)  East. 
B)  South and West. 
C)  North. 
D)  South exclusively. 
E)  West exclusively.

Question 6

Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through

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A)  scientific observation and experiment. 
B)  the senses. 
C)  divine revelation. 
D)  reason, logic, and critical thinking. 
E)  an inner light. 
A)  scientific observation and experiment. 
B)  the senses. 
C)  divine revelation. 
D)  reason, logic, and critical thinking. 
E)  an inner light.

Question 7

What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want?

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The relationship between industrializati

Question 8

In the first half of the nineteenth century,tax-supported schools were

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A)  chiefly available to educate the children of the poor. 
B)  most in evidence in the South. 
C)  continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites. 
D)  open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do. 
E)  more academically demanding than private academies. 
A)  chiefly available to educate the children of the poor. 
B)  most in evidence in the South. 
C)  continuously opposed by wealthy, conservative whites. 
D)  open only to tuition-paying children of the well-to-do. 
E)  more academically demanding than private academies.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Francis Parkman

Accepted Answer

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) was an Ameri

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Gilbert Stuart

Accepted Answer

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) was an Americ

Question 11

Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening

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A)  were academically distinguished institutions. 
B)  lacked much intellectual vitality. 
C)  eventually gained tax-supported status. 
D)  offered a new, nontraditional curriculum. 
E)  opened their doors to Catholic students. 
A)  were academically distinguished institutions. 
B)  lacked much intellectual vitality. 
C)  eventually gained tax-supported status. 
D)  offered a new, nontraditional curriculum. 
E)  opened their doors to Catholic students.

Question 12

American transcendentalist writers included

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A)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  Henry David Thoreau. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Angelina Grimke. 
E)  Margaret Fuller. 
A)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  Henry David Thoreau. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Angelina Grimke. 
E)  Margaret Fuller.

Question 13

A dark writer whose genres included poetry,horror stories,and detective fiction was

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A)  Edgar Allan Poe. 
B)  Herman Melville. 
C)  Sherlock Holmes. 
D)  Emily Dickinson. 
E)  William Faulkner. 
A)  Edgar Allan Poe. 
B)  Herman Melville. 
C)  Sherlock Holmes. 
D)  Emily Dickinson. 
E)  William Faulkner.

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Charles G.Finney

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Charles G. Finney was a prominent Americ

Question 15

"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King,Jr.,was written by the transcendentalist

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A)  Louisa May Alcott. 
B)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Margaret Fuller. 
E)  Henry David Thoreau. 
A)  Louisa May Alcott. 
B)  Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Margaret Fuller. 
E)  Henry David Thoreau.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Unitarianism

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Unitarianism is a theological movement t

Question 17

The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for

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A)  its still primitive standards. 
B)  having abandoned the practice of bleeding. 
C)  its discovery of germs as the cause of illness. 
D)  pioneer work in dentistry. 
E)  its well established medical schools. 
A)  its still primitive standards. 
B)  having abandoned the practice of bleeding. 
C)  its discovery of germs as the cause of illness. 
D)  pioneer work in dentistry. 
E)  its well established medical schools.

Question 18

The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of

Accepted Answer

A)  Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. 
B)  Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. 
C)  Charles Finney and Henry Ward Beecher. 
D)  Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 
E)  Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
A)  Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. 
B)  Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. 
C)  Charles Finney and Henry Ward Beecher. 
D)  Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 
E)  Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Peter Cartwright

Accepted Answer

Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was an infl

Question 20

When it came to scientific achievement,America in the 1800s was

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A)  a world leader. 
B)  a nation from which other countries borrowed. 
C)  most noted for its successes in medicine. 
D)  more interested in practical matters. 
E)  focused primarily on biology and chemistry. 
A)  a world leader. 
B)  a nation from which other countries borrowed. 
C)  most noted for its successes in medicine. 
D)  more interested in practical matters. 
E)  focused primarily on biology and chemistry.

Exam 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Susan B.Anthony

Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because

The Second Great Awakening partly reshaped American religion by making it

The Mormon religion originated in

The religious zeal of the Second Great Awakening led to the founding of many small,denominational,liberal arts colleges,chiefly in the

Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through

What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want?

In the first half of the nineteenth century,tax-supported schools were

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Francis Parkman

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Gilbert Stuart

Many of the denominational liberal arts colleges founded as a result of the Second Great Awakening

American transcendentalist writers included

A dark writer whose genres included poetry,horror stories,and detective fiction was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Charles G.Finney

"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King,Jr.,was written by the transcendentalist

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Unitarianism

The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for

The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Peter Cartwright

When it came to scientific achievement,America in the 1800s was

New World Beginnings,33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E.

The Planting of English America,1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century,1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775

The Duel for North America,1608-1763

The Road to Revolution,1763-1775

America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism,1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy,1824-1840

Forging the National Economy,1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy,1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861

Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age,1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900

America Moves to the City,1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution,1865-1896

Empire and Expansion,1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt,1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad,1912-1916

The War to End War,1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust,1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal,1933-1939

Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941

America in World War II,1941-1945

The Cold War Begins,1945-1952

The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies,1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism,1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era,1992-2009

The American People Face a New Century

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