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Why did most communal living "experiments" quickly fail?

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Question 2

Why did the Free-Soil movement attract the kind of popular support that none of the other abolitionist philosophies could generate?

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By the beginning of the Civil War,the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.

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 B)False  True

Question 4

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

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 B)False

Question 5

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

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Question 6

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In the 1830s and 1840s,abolitionists were divided

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

Question 8

The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were

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A)   mostly ignored during his lifetime.
B)   largely focused on southern society.
C)   primarily sad and macabre.
D)   completely ignored in Europe after his death.
E)   acclaimed by many American writers in his time.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 10

Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

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A)   Harriet Tubman
B)   Elizabeth Cady Stanton
C)   Sojourner Truth
D)   "Mother" Ann Lee
E)   Rachel EatonF) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 11

In the 1830s,abolitionists in the United States constituted

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A)   approximately one-third of the national population.
B)   the largest reform movement in the nation.
C)   a small percentage of the national population.
D)   the majority of the population in the North.
E)   approximately one-quarter of the national population.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

What elements of romanticism can be found in mid-nineteenth-century American art and literature?

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Question 13

Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River school?

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A)   canvases that tended to be very large in size
B)   portraits of some of the nation's most spectacular and undeveloped areas
C)   a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
D)   a sense of nostalgia for a kind of nature that might be disappearing
E)   an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than EuropeF) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

One abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

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

Question 16

In the early nineteenth century,the American Colonization Society

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A)   was strongly supported by American blacks.
B)   was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery.
C)   called for an immediate end to slavery.
D)   opposed the idea of compensation for owners who freed their slaves.
E)   carried out a large-scale resettlement of freed slaves.F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

In the 1840s,William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

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

Question 18

William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

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

Question 19

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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

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A)   Oneida.
B)   Brook Farm.
C)   New Harmony.
D)   Nauvoo.
E)   Walden.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B) A

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Why did the Free-Soil movement attract the kind of popular support that none of the other abolitionist philosophies could generate?

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

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The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

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