Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

Americans in the free-soil movement sought to open up sections of the West to blacks.

Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.

Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.

The original founder of Mormonism,in the state of ________,was Joseph Smith.

Reformers that supported the concept of Indian reservations believed them to be beneficial to both whites and Indians.

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

Prior to the Civil War,free blacks in the North tended to be

Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________ experiment in communal living.

Both the Oneida Community and the Shakers were committed to celibacy.

One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was

In redefining gender roles,the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

The term "penitentiary" comes from the word ________.

Many blacks rejected the American Colonization Society's offer to return them to Africa.

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

Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?

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