Question 1

Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

Accepted Answer

A)  the admittance of women only 
B)  communal raising of children 
C)  polygamy 
D)  free love 
E)  complete celibacy 
A)  the admittance of women only 
B)  communal raising of children 
C)  polygamy 
D)  free love 
E)  complete celibacy E

Question 2

John Humphrey Noyes is associated with the ________ community.

Accepted Answer

Oneida

Question 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ________,which first appeared as a serial in an antislavery weekly.

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 4

Not many abolitionists believed that Congress could constitutionally interfere with a "domestic" institution such as slavery within the individual states themselves.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The title of Frederick Douglass's autobiography is ________ of Frederick Douglass.

Accepted Answer

Narrative

Question 6

Walt Whitman

Accepted Answer

A)  intensely disagreed with the American transcendentalists. 
B)  rejected much of romanticism. 
C)  celebrated the liberation of the individual. 
D)  was a strong critic of American democracy. 
E)  became a strong defender of southern institutions, especially slavery. 
A)  intensely disagreed with the American transcendentalists. 
B)  rejected much of romanticism. 
C)  celebrated the liberation of the individual. 
D)  was a strong critic of American democracy. 
E)  became a strong defender of southern institutions, especially slavery.

Question 7

The first great school of American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century was known as the ________ School.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The first great school of American painters...

Question 8

Walt Whitman's first book of poems was titled ________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Walt Whitman's first book of poems was...

Question 9

Ralph Waldo Emerson started as a minister and became a transcendentalist philosopher.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Many reformers of the pre-Civil War period thought it was possible to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The pre-Civil War reformer most concerned about expanding public education was ________,from the state of Massachusetts.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The pre-Civil War reformer most concerned about...

Question 12

In the 1840s,the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

Accepted Answer

A)  linked alcohol to crime and poverty. 
B)  grew largely out of immigrant communities. 
C)  was actively opposed by a large majority of Americans. 
D)  remained a minor social movement. 
E)  spent much of its time and resources battling evangelical Protestants. 
A)  linked alcohol to crime and poverty. 
B)  grew largely out of immigrant communities. 
C)  was actively opposed by a large majority of Americans. 
D)  remained a minor social movement. 
E)  spent much of its time and resources battling evangelical Protestants.

Question 13

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River School EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  James Whistler. 
B)  Thomas Cole. 
C)  Frederic Church. 
D)  Albert Bierstadt. 
E)  Asher Durand. 
A)  James Whistler. 
B)  Thomas Cole. 
C)  Frederic Church. 
D)  Albert Bierstadt. 
E)  Asher Durand.

Question 14

Why were many utopian communities critical of the traditional role and status of women in American society? What alternatives did these communities offer?

Accepted Answer

Many utopian communities were critical o

Question 15

The American Colonization Society called for the gradual freeing of slaves and monetary compensation to slaves' former owners.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Above all,nineteenth-century reform movements in the United States promoted racial equality.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

In the 1840s,William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

Accepted Answer

A)  equality for women. 
B)  defensive wars. 
C)  ending the asylum system. 
D)  northern disunion from the South. 
E)  extreme pacifism. 
A)  equality for women. 
B)  defensive wars. 
C)  ending the asylum system. 
D)  northern disunion from the South. 
E)  extreme pacifism.

Question 18

The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  Walt Whitman. 
B)  Herman Melville. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Edgar Allan Poe. 
E)  Sydney Smith. 
A)  Walt Whitman. 
B)  Herman Melville. 
C)  James Fenimore Cooper. 
D)  Edgar Allan Poe. 
E)  Sydney Smith.

Question 20

The romantic movement was invented by American intellectual circles.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

John Humphrey Noyes is associated with the ________ community.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ________,which first appeared as a serial in an antislavery weekly.

Not many abolitionists believed that Congress could constitutionally interfere with a "domestic" institution such as slavery within the individual states themselves.

The title of Frederick Douglass's autobiography is ________ of Frederick Douglass.

Walt Whitman

The first great school of American painters in the first half of the nineteenth century was known as the ________ School.

Walt Whitman's first book of poems was titled ________.

Ralph Waldo Emerson started as a minister and became a transcendentalist philosopher.

Many reformers of the pre-Civil War period thought it was possible to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement.

The pre-Civil War reformer most concerned about expanding public education was ________,from the state of Massachusetts.

In the 1840s,the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River School EXCEPT

Why were many utopian communities critical of the traditional role and status of women in American society? What alternatives did these communities offer?

The American Colonization Society called for the gradual freeing of slaves and monetary compensation to slaves' former owners.

Above all,nineteenth-century reform movements in the United States promoted racial equality.

In the 1840s,William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.

All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

The romantic movement was invented by American intellectual circles.

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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