Question 1

The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was

Accepted Answer

A)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
B)  Frederick Douglass. 
C)  Elijah Lovejoy. 
D)  Benjamin Lundy. 
E)  David Walker. 
A)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
B)  Frederick Douglass. 
C)  Elijah Lovejoy. 
D)  Benjamin Lundy. 
E)  David Walker.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Why did the free-soil movement attract the popular support that none of the other abolitionist philosophies could generate?

Accepted Answer

The Free-Soil movement, which emerged in

Question 4

Prior to the Civil War,the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

Accepted Answer

A)  Baptists. 
B)  Quakers. 
C)  Presbyterians. 
D)  Unitarians. 
E)  Methodists. 
A)  Baptists. 
B)  Quakers. 
C)  Presbyterians. 
D)  Unitarians. 
E)  Methodists.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Discuss the various ideas and divisions within the antislavery movement.

Accepted Answer

The antislavery movement was a complex a

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of According to the transcendentalists,________ was the highest...

Question 8

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

Accepted Answer

A)  stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites. 
B)  seek the gradual elimination of slavery. 
C)  demand freedom for slaves, but deny them citizenship. 
D)  organize slave rebellions throughout the American South. 
E)  join forces with the more established American Colonization Society. 
A)  stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites. 
B)  seek the gradual elimination of slavery. 
C)  demand freedom for slaves, but deny them citizenship. 
D)  organize slave rebellions throughout the American South. 
E)  join forces with the more established American Colonization Society.

Question 9

Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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A)  sought to revive the ideals of Calvinism. 
B)  believed that no individual could control his or her personal salvation. 
C)  took the lead in the cause to end slavery. 
D)  argued that personal salvation could be achieved by individual effort. 
E)  believed temperance was detracting from other, loftier reform movements. 
A)  sought to revive the ideals of Calvinism. 
B)  believed that no individual could control his or her personal salvation. 
C)  took the lead in the cause to end slavery. 
D)  argued that personal salvation could be achieved by individual effort. 
E)  believed temperance was detracting from other, loftier reform movements.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Mark Twain was the leading writer in the southern romantic tradition.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  democratic ideals. 
B)  the yeoman farmer. 
C)  natural beauty. 
D)  realism. 
E)  the founding fathers. 
A)  democratic ideals. 
B)  the yeoman farmer. 
C)  natural beauty. 
D)  realism. 
E)  the founding fathers.

Question 13

Hudson River School artists felt America had more promise than Europe.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In the 1830s and 1840s,abolitionists were divided

Accepted Answer

A)  by radicals and moderates within their ranks. 
B)  over whether or not to use violence. 
C)  by calls for northern and southern separation. 
D)  over the question of free-soil, colonization, or full emancipation. 
E)  All these answers are correct. 
A)  by radicals and moderates within their ranks. 
B)  over whether or not to use violence. 
C)  by calls for northern and southern separation. 
D)  over the question of free-soil, colonization, or full emancipation. 
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 16

Transcendentalists

Accepted Answer

A)  rejected European intellectuals. 
B)  regarded reason to be the most important human faculty. 
C)  argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals. 
D)  believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism. 
E)  argued for the liberating potential of "understanding." 
A)  rejected European intellectuals. 
B)  regarded reason to be the most important human faculty. 
C)  argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals. 
D)  believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism. 
E)  argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."

Question 17

One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

Accepted Answer

A)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
B)  Frederick Douglass. 
C)  Sojourner Truth. 
D)  Benjamin Lundy. 
E)  Elijah Lovejoy. 
A)  William Lloyd Garrison. 
B)  Frederick Douglass. 
C)  Sojourner Truth. 
D)  Benjamin Lundy. 
E)  Elijah Lovejoy.

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Many of the women involved in feminist...

Question 20

What were the social factors that motivated the many reform movements in the North before the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The social factors that motivated the ma

Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 pamphlet was

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

Why did the free-soil movement attract the popular support that none of the other abolitionist philosophies could generate?

Prior to the Civil War,the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

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

Discuss the various ideas and divisions within the antislavery movement.

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

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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

Mark Twain was the leading writer in the southern romantic tradition.

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

Hudson River School artists felt America had more promise than Europe.

William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism.

In the 1830s and 1840s,abolitionists were divided

Transcendentalists

One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

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

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.

What were the social factors that motivated the many reform movements in the North before the Civil War?

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

The Age of Globalization

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