Question 1

Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon,published in 1830?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was a historical account of the Mormons' westward migration to Utah. 
B)  It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection. 
C)  The book offered a detailed explanation and justification of the Mormons' social philosophy. 
D)  The book was written anonymously by anti-Mormons to discredit Mormon beliefs. 
A)  It was a historical account of the Mormons' westward migration to Utah. 
B)  It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection. 
C)  The book offered a detailed explanation and justification of the Mormons' social philosophy. 
D)  The book was written anonymously by anti-Mormons to discredit Mormon beliefs.

Question 2

Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion. 
B)  His view of individualism promoted hard work and indulgent consumption. 
C)  He resigned his pulpit due to his fear of public speaking. 
D)  Emerson's influence was briefly intense,but it did not stand the test of time. 
A)  He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion. 
B)  His view of individualism promoted hard work and indulgent consumption. 
C)  He resigned his pulpit due to his fear of public speaking. 
D)  Emerson's influence was briefly intense,but it did not stand the test of time.

Question 3

Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  The rapid increase in life expectancy 
B)  America's relatively high birthrate 
C)  Immigration 
D)  The growth of urban culture 
A)  The rapid increase in life expectancy 
B)  America's relatively high birthrate 
C)  Immigration 
D)  The growth of urban culture

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-Second Great Awakening

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-Transcendentalism

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 6

The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Second Great Awakening 
B)  Mormonism 
C)  The American Revolution 
D)  The Oneida Community 
A)  The Second Great Awakening 
B)  Mormonism 
C)  The American Revolution 
D)  The Oneida Community

Question 7

Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  Both celebrated the positive potential of the individual. 
B)  They wrote mostly of the past and ignored current realities in the United States. 
C)  Both warned against the restrictions imposed on individuals by social groups. 
D)  They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism. 
A)  Both celebrated the positive potential of the individual. 
B)  They wrote mostly of the past and ignored current realities in the United States. 
C)  Both warned against the restrictions imposed on individuals by social groups. 
D)  They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.

Question 8

In what respects were the new cultures of the mid-nineteenth century-those of utopian communalists and of urban residents-different from the mainstream culture described in previous chapters? How were they alike?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Similari

Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon,published in 1830?

Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is correct?

Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

Answer the following questions : -Second Great Awakening

Answer the following questions : -Transcendentalism

The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

In what respects were the new cultures of the mid-nineteenth century-those of utopian communalists and of urban residents-different from the mainstream culture described in previous chapters? How were they alike?

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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Exam 10: Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon,published in 1830?

Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is correct?

Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

Answer the following questions : -Second Great Awakening

Answer the following questions : -Transcendentalism

The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

In what respects were the new cultures of the mid-nineteenth century-those of utopian communalists and of urban residents-different from the mainstream culture described in previous chapters? How were they alike?

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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