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| 7107163047 | A catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention in 1840 that dealt with | abolition. | 0 | |
| 7107163048 | A former slave, __________ __________ founded an antislavery newspaper and wrote his autobiography. | Frederick Douglass | 1 | |
| 7107163049 | Abolitionists successfully funded the legal battle and repatriation of Africans who seized the __________, a Spanish slave ship. | Amistad | 2 | |
| 7107163050 | All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT | James Whistler. | 3 | |
| 7107163051 | All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT | Sydney Smith. | 4 | |
| 7107163052 | All of the following were American authors creating distinctively American literature EXCEPT | Asher Durand. | 5 | |
| 7107163053 | Americans contributed which of the following advances to medical science in the 1800s? | -William Morton's use of either as an anesthetic. -Oliver Wendell Holmes's discovery that disease could be transmitted from person to person. | 6 | |
| 7107163054 | Both Perfectionists and Shakers | redefined traditional gender roles. | 7 | |
| 7107163055 | Due to their commitment to _____, all Shakers had to choose the faith for themselves. | celibacy | 8 | |
| 7107163056 | During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the | absence of basic knowledge about disease. | 9 | |
| 7107163057 | Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was | "The Raven". | 10 | |
| 7107163058 | Edgar Allan Poe's work focused on individuals who were experiencing | emotions of sadness and terror. | 11 | |
| 7107163059 | How did Americans respond to the cholera epidemics of the 1830s and 1840s? | -Threats to public health led to increased interest in new health theories. -Community health boards were created to address the spread of disease. | 12 | |
| 7107163060 | How did anti-abolitionist sentiments affect the abolitionist movement in the late 1830s? | Increased violence toward abolitionists created factions within the movement. | 13 | |
| 7107163061 | How did free blacks in the North feel toward the slaves? | They were empathetic and became actively involved in the abolition movement. | 14 | |
| 7107163062 | How did Henry David Thoreau's beliefs shape his relationship with government? | He refused to support any government that did not match his personal morals. | 15 | |
| 7107163063 | How did William Lloyd Garrison negatively affect the abolitionist movement? | His positions became radical, which troubled many in the movement. | 16 | |
| 7107163064 | In his youth, Ralph Waldo Emerson | was a Unitarian minister, until he left the clergy in 1832. | 17 | |
| 7107163065 | In "Nature" (1836), __________ __________ __________ described a quest for fulfillment through communion with the natural world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 18 | |
| 7107163066 | In order to practice his philosophy of withdrawing from society to live a simple life, Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin | near Walden Pond. | 19 | |
| 7107163067 | In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted | a small percentage of the national population. | 20 | |
| 7107163068 | In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society | was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery. | 21 | |
| 7107163069 | In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism | None of these answers is correct. | 22 | |
| 7107163070 | In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature | was that American artists had little to offer Europe. | 23 | |
| 7107163071 | In the Oneida Community, women were protected from unwanted _____, while the most distinctive feature of Shakerism was _____. | childbearing: celibacy | 24 | |
| 7107163072 | In the West, missionaries established schools for American Indians, believing that | Indians could be "civilized" by learning how to assimilate to white culture. | 25 | |
| 7107163073 | One of the first communities of transcendentalists was | Brook Farm. | 26 | |
| 7107163074 | One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was | Oneida. | 27 | |
| 7107163075 | Popular nineteenth-century American painting aimed to capture | the wonder and awe of rugged, wild landscapes. | 28 | |
| 7107163076 | Prior to 1860, public education in the United States | gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world. | 29 | |
| 7107163077 | Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be | strongly opposed to southern slavery. | 30 | |
| 7107163078 | Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party | promoted "free soil". | 31 | |
| 7107163079 | Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the | Quakers. | 32 | |
| 7107163080 | Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a | desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change. | 33 | |
| 7107163081 | Romantic authors in the South were more likely than writers in the North to | defend the southern way of life, including slavery. | 34 | |
| 7107163082 | Shaker societies | saw women exercise more power than men. | 35 | |
| 7107163083 | Solitary confinement was meant to give prisoners opportunities to meditate on their wrongdoings and develop "__________." | penitence | 36 | |
| 7107163084 | Southern antebellum writers often wrote | historical romances. | 37 | |
| 7107163085 | The antislavery movement in the early 1800s was based on the idea of | colonization. | 38 | |
| 7107163086 | The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was | David Walker. | 39 | |
| 7107163087 | The early feminist movement began at a world antislavery convention when | American women delegates were turned away. | 40 | |
| 7107163088 | The first great American school of painters was known as the __________ __________ School. | Hudson River | 41 | |
| 7107163089 | The founders of the Perkins School for the Blind believed that | even the blind or handicapped could discover inner strength and wisdom. | 42 | |
| 7107163090 | The great network of institutions and charitable services for handicapped individuals that developed during the prewar years was known as the | Benevolent Empire. | 43 | |
| 7107163091 | The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of | natural beauty. | 44 | |
| 7107163092 | The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was | Dorothea Dix. | 45 | |
| 7107163093 | The meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848 generated a statement on women's rights patterned on the | Declaration of Independence. | 46 | |
| 7107163094 | The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century | considered untamed nature the best source of inspiration......???? | 47 | |
| 7107163095 | The nineteenth-century Protestant revivalist movement, known as the __________ __________ Awakening, was based on the idea that everyone was capable of salvation and spiritual rebirth. | Second Great | 48 | |
| 7107163096 | The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to | permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings. | 49 | |
| 7107163097 | The prison reform movement sought to rehabilitate inmates through | -solitary confinement. -silence on prison work crews. | 50 | |
| 7107163098 | The pseudoscience of __________ made inferences about individuals' intelligence and character by studying the shape of their skull. | phrenology | 51 | |
| 7107163099 | The Second Great Awakening combined which two elements of nineteenth-century American culture? | -reform movements. -Protestant revivalism. | 52 | |
| 7107163100 | The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) | led to the passage of "personal liberty laws". | 53 | |
| 7107163101 | The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works of | Mark Twain. | 54 | |
| 7107163102 | The transcendentalists defined reason as an individual's | capacity to grasp truth and beauty by expressing emotions. | 55 | |
| 7107163103 | The transcendentalists defined understanding as an individual's | capacity to repress instincts and to use the intellect to learn by rote. | 56 | |
| 7107163104 | The transcendentalists viewed nature as a | source of deep personal inspiration. | 57 | |
| 7107163105 | The transcendentalists were among the first Americans to | anticipate the environmental movement of the twentieth century. | 58 | |
| 7107163106 | Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of | America's westward expansion. | 59 | |
| 7107163107 | Uncle Tom's Cabin gained national popularity in the mid-nineteenth century by being reproduced in which of the following forms? | -theatrical production. -novel. | 60 | |
| 7107163108 | Upon which document in American History is the language of the Declaration of Sentiments based? | Declaration of Independence | 61 | |
| 7107163109 | Walt Whitman's poetry helped make _____ one of the defining ideals of antebellum America. | individualism | 62 | |
| 7107163110 | What has been the effect of marriage on women, according to the document? | Husbands essentially become masters. | 63 | |
| 7107163111 | What is the effect on the morality of women that results from male privileges, according to the Declaration? | Women become irresponsible. | 64 | |
| 7107163112 | What is the position of the Declaration of Sentiments on the question of female suffrage? | It is an inalienable right. | 65 | |
| 7107163113 | What most distinguished James Fenimore Cooper as a truly American novelist? | He celebrated the American wilderness. | 66 | |
| 7107163114 | What was the biggest problem facing American medicine in the first half of the nineteenth century? | Doctors had little understanding of how disease was spread. | 67 | |
| 7107163115 | What was the result for women who owned property in their own name? | They were taxed without representation. | 68 | |
| 7107163116 | What was unique about William Lloyd Garrison's philosophy of abolition? | -He believed abolitionists should view slavery from the point of view of slaves. -He believed that the antidote to slavery was full American citizenship for all slaves. | 69 | |
| 7107163117 | Which of the following accurately describe transcendentalists' mode of communal living? | -They used manual labor to transition from a world of intellect to the natural world. -They equally shared in the labor so each could have leisure time to cultivate the self. | 70 | |
| 7107163118 | Which of the following best describes formal schooling in the South before the Civil War? | African Americans were barred from formal education, and only one-third of white children were enrolled in schools. | 71 | |
| 7107163119 | Which of the following best describes the proportion of northerners who were pro-abolition? | a small minority | 72 | |
| 7107163120 | Which of the following best describes the state of public education in 1830? | No state had a system of universal public education. | 73 | |
| 7107163121 | Which of the following best reflects white male abolitionists' attitudes toward female abolitionists? | It was inappropriate for women to be outspoken activists. | 74 | |
| 7107163122 | Which of the following is NOT a Mormon belief? | Life-long celibacy is important. | 75 | |
| 7107163123 | Which of the following major writers of the antebellum period was a southerner? | Edgar Allan Poe | 76 | |
| 7107163124 | Which of the following statements is true of free blacks living in the North in 1850? | They were at times poorer than slaves in the South. | 77 | |
| 7107163125 | Which of the following was NOT a demand made in the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"? | Women should have their own social spheres. | 78 | |
| 7107163126 | Which of the following was NOT a health fad in the antebellum years? | antibiotics | 79 | |
| 7107163127 | Which of the following was NOT a reason that many northern whites were against abolition? | The abolition movement was rapidly gaining ground among whites in the South. | 80 | |
| 7107163128 | Which of the following was NOT an idea Walt Whitman celebrated in his work? | urban living | 81 | |
| 7107163129 | Which of the following were goals established at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention for women's rights? | -the right to vote. -equality with men. | 82 | |
| 7107163130 | Which of the following were NOT reforms implemented by Horace Mann? | -making school attendance mandatory for individuals under 16. -lengthening the academic year to nine months. | 83 | |
| 7107163131 | Which of the following were problems for doctors in the early 1800s? | -Many traditional physicians mistrusted innovation and experimentation. -They were not highly regarded in their communities. -Many of their peers were quacks or poorly educated. | 84 | |
| 7107163132 | Which of the following women were among the leaders of the nineteenth-century feminist movement? | -Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -Susan B. Anthony. -Dorothea Dix. | 85 | |
| 7107163133 | Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE? | It advocated sexual equality. | 86 | |
| 7107163134 | Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living? | Walt Whitman | 87 | |
| 7107163135 | Who led the migration of 12,000 Mormons from Illinois to what would become Salt Lake City, Utah? | Brigham Young | 88 | |
| 7107163136 | Who wrote the 1841 novel The Deerslayer? | James Fenimore Cooper | 89 | |
| 7107163137 | Why did early efforts to end slavery by repatriating slaves fail? | Many African Americans were not interested in emigrating to Africa. | 90 | |
| 7107163138 | Why did many of the early feminists also identify as Quakers? | -Many Quaker preachers and community leaders were women. -Many Quakers believed in sexual equality. | 91 | |
| 7107163139 | Why is the rhetoric of this document so effective? | The language is based historically on the Declaration of Independence. | 92 |
