Question 1

Frederick Douglass

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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.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 2

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

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)  formed a crusade against personal immorality.
E)  believed temperance was detracting from other,loftier reform movements.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 4

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem,which established him as a major literary figure,was

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A)  "The Raven."
B)  "Moby Dick."
C)  "Tamerlane."
D)  "Walden."
E)  "Leaves of Grass."F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

In the early nineteenth century,the American Colonization Society

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

Question 6

In the 1840s,abolitionists in the United States constituted

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A)  a small percentage of the national population.
B)  approximately one-quarter of the national population.
C)  the majority of the population in the North.
D)  the largest reform movement in the nation.
E)  approximately one-third of the national population.F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 7

Discuss the various ideas and divisions within the antislavery movement.

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Question 8

Why did a feminist movement come into being in the United States during the 1840s?

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The feminist movement in the United Stat...

Question 9

In the first half of the nineteenth century,________ epidemics devastated many American cities.

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The answer of In the first half of the nineteenth...

Question 10

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

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A)  deeply antagonistic to William Lloyd Garrison.
B)  indifferent to slavery in the South.
C)  anxious to leave the United States.
D)  in favor of the "back to Africa" movements.
E)  strongly opposed to southern slavery.F) A) and C)
G) C) and E)

Question 11

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ________.

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The answer of Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel ________....

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)  an assumption that America was a land of greater promise than Europe
C)  a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
D)  the exceptional popularity many of its artists enjoyed with the American public
E)  portraits of some of the nation's most spectacular and undeveloped areasF) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

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A)  spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.
B)  reveal the ugly extent of the vicious slave trade to America.
C)  ignite such anger in the South that several states soon seceded from the Union.
D)  offer the first written history of American slavery.
E)  help humanize southern slaveholders in the minds of northern readers.F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 15

The ________ were the religious denomination that seemed to be most prominent among mid-nineteenth-century feminists.

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Question 16

Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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A)  Its founder was murdered.
B)  It advocated sexual equality.
C)  Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D)  The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
E)  Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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A)  Leaves of Grass.
B)  Moby Dick.
C)  The Deerslayer.
D)  "The Raven."
E)  Uncle Tom's Cabin.F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 18

According to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology,what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?

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A)  life expectancy
B)  likelihood of succumbing to infectious diseases
C)  future earning potential
D)  chances of having children
E)  character and intelligenceF) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 19

Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed medical innovations and experimentation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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?

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In the colonial period, American medical...

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