Question 1

The study of the human brain through phrenology was the origin of modern psychology.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Sylvester Graham encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accepted Answer

A)  believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals. 
B)  asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment. 
C)  was a leading critic of the American political system. 
D)  asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society. 
E)  remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life. 
A)  believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals. 
B)  asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment. 
C)  was a leading critic of the American political system. 
D)  asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society. 
E)  remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life.

Question 4

How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison helped the cause

Question 5

In the mid-nineteenth century,the general European attitude toward American art and literature

Accepted Answer

A)  was one of growing respect and admiration. 
B)  was that American artists had little to offer Europe. 
C)  included praise for American artists for defining a new set of national virtues. 
D)  included criticism of American artists for ignoring romanticism. 
E)  was that it had been hopelessly corrupted by the ideology of unfettered capitalism. 
A)  was one of growing respect and admiration. 
B)  was that American artists had little to offer Europe. 
C)  included praise for American artists for defining a new set of national virtues. 
D)  included criticism of American artists for ignoring romanticism. 
E)  was that it had been hopelessly corrupted by the ideology of unfettered capitalism.

Question 6

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

Accepted Answer

A)  was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts. 
C)  argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism. 
D)  established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond. 
E)  argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States. 
A)  was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
B)  felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts. 
C)  argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism. 
D)  established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond. 
E)  argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States.

Question 7

Compare American medical care in the colonial period with medical care in the first half of the nineteenth century.What aspects of care had changed and what had remained the same?

Accepted Answer

In the colonial period, American medical

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  absence of regulations in the medical profession. 
B)  absence of basic knowledge about disease. 
C)  low social status of medical professionals. 
D)  difficulty of medical experimentation. 
E)  apathy of the general population towards preventive health. 
A)  absence of regulations in the medical profession. 
B)  absence of basic knowledge about disease. 
C)  low social status of medical professionals. 
D)  difficulty of medical experimentation. 
E)  apathy of the general population towards preventive health.

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The transcendentalist movement

Accepted Answer

A)  anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century. 
B)  understood the interconnectedness of species. 
C)  made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment. 
D)  understood the interconnectedness of species and made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment. 
E)  None of these answers is correct. 
A)  anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century. 
B)  understood the interconnectedness of species. 
C)  made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment. 
D)  understood the interconnectedness of species and made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment. 
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 11

The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

Accepted Answer

A)  make realistic depictions of rural white American life. 
B)  show scenes of American aristocracy at play. 
C)  depict the Founding Fathers hard at work. 
D)  celebrate the achievements of the American military. 
E)  evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape. 
A)  make realistic depictions of rural white American life. 
B)  show scenes of American aristocracy at play. 
C)  depict the Founding Fathers hard at work. 
D)  celebrate the achievements of the American military. 
E)  evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape.

Question 12

Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.

Accepted Answer

The essential tenets of the transcendent

Question 13

Joseph Smith and Elijah Lovejoy were both ________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Joseph Smith and Elijah Lovejoy were both...

Question 14

Edgar Allan Poe's writings focused on the bleak nature of the human spirit and emotions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Shaker societies

Accepted Answer

A)  asserted that God was female. 
B)  established most of their communities in the South. 
C)  saw women exercise more power than men. 
D)  first began in the United States in the 1840s. 
E)  were eventually forced to move to Utah. 
A)  asserted that God was female. 
B)  established most of their communities in the South. 
C)  saw women exercise more power than men. 
D)  first began in the United States in the 1840s. 
E)  were eventually forced to move to Utah.

Question 16

Prior to the Civil War,the Liberty Party

Accepted Answer

A)  supported the rights of slave owners. 
B)  opposed the admission of California into the Union in 1850. 
C)  promoted "free soil." 
D)  focused on strengthening the fugitive slave laws. 
E)  campaigned for outright abolition. 
A)  supported the rights of slave owners. 
B)  opposed the admission of California into the Union in 1850. 
C)  promoted "free soil." 
D)  focused on strengthening the fugitive slave laws. 
E)  campaigned for outright abolition.

Question 17

Like other mid-nineteenth-century experiments in social organization,Mormons believed in human perfectibility.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Frederick Douglass

Accepted Answer

A)  was born free but was sold into slavery as a youth. 
B)  wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper. 
C)  spent years lecturing in England against slavery. 
D)  was an ordained minister. 
E)  argued that blacks wanted only an end to slavery, and not full social equality. 
A)  was born free but was sold into slavery as a youth. 
B)  wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper. 
C)  spent years lecturing in England against slavery. 
D)  was an ordained minister. 
E)  argued that blacks wanted only an end to slavery, and not full social equality.

Question 19

The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to

Accepted Answer

A)  the Caribbean. 
B)  Liberia. 
C)  Angola. 
D)  England. 
E)  Canada. 
A)  the Caribbean. 
B)  Liberia. 
C)  Angola. 
D)  England. 
E)  Canada.

Question 20

The most distinctive feature of the Shakers was their commitment to ________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The most distinctive feature of the Shakers...

Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

The study of the human brain through phrenology was the origin of modern psychology.

Sylvester Graham encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat.

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?

In the mid-nineteenth century,the general European attitude toward American art and literature

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

Compare American medical care in the colonial period with medical care in the first half of the nineteenth century.What aspects of care had changed and what had remained the same?

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

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

The transcendentalist movement

The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.

Joseph Smith and Elijah Lovejoy were both ________.

Edgar Allan Poe's writings focused on the bleak nature of the human spirit and emotions.

Shaker societies

Prior to the Civil War,the Liberty Party

Like other mid-nineteenth-century experiments in social organization,Mormons believed in human perfectibility.

Frederick Douglass

The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to

The most distinctive feature of the Shakers was their commitment to ________.

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

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