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7107163047A catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention in 1840 that dealt withabolition.0
7107163048A former slave, __________ __________ founded an antislavery newspaper and wrote his autobiography.Frederick Douglass1
7107163049Abolitionists successfully funded the legal battle and repatriation of Africans who seized the __________, a Spanish slave ship.Amistad2
7107163050All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPTJames Whistler.3
7107163051All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPTSydney Smith.4
7107163052All of the following were American authors creating distinctively American literature EXCEPTAsher Durand.5
7107163053Americans 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
7107163054Both Perfectionists and Shakersredefined traditional gender roles.7
7107163055Due to their commitment to _____, all Shakers had to choose the faith for themselves.celibacy8
7107163056During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was theabsence of basic knowledge about disease.9
7107163057Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was"The Raven".10
7107163058Edgar Allan Poe's work focused on individuals who were experiencingemotions of sadness and terror.11
7107163059How 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
7107163060How did anti-abolitionist sentiments affect the abolitionist movement in the late 1830s?Increased violence toward abolitionists created factions within the movement.13
7107163061How did free blacks in the North feel toward the slaves?They were empathetic and became actively involved in the abolition movement.14
7107163062How 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
7107163063How did William Lloyd Garrison negatively affect the abolitionist movement?His positions became radical, which troubled many in the movement.16
7107163064In his youth, Ralph Waldo Emersonwas a Unitarian minister, until he left the clergy in 1832.17
7107163065In "Nature" (1836), __________ __________ __________ described a quest for fulfillment through communion with the natural world.Ralph Waldo Emerson18
7107163066In order to practice his philosophy of withdrawing from society to live a simple life, Henry David Thoreau built a small cabinnear Walden Pond.19
7107163067In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituteda small percentage of the national population.20
7107163068In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Societywas founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery.21
7107163069In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticismNone of these answers is correct.22
7107163070In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literaturewas that American artists had little to offer Europe.23
7107163071In the Oneida Community, women were protected from unwanted _____, while the most distinctive feature of Shakerism was _____.childbearing: celibacy24
7107163072In the West, missionaries established schools for American Indians, believing thatIndians could be "civilized" by learning how to assimilate to white culture.25
7107163073One of the first communities of transcendentalists wasBrook Farm.26
7107163074One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies wasOneida.27
7107163075Popular nineteenth-century American painting aimed to capturethe wonder and awe of rugged, wild landscapes.28
7107163076Prior to 1860, public education in the United Statesgave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.29
7107163077Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to bestrongly opposed to southern slavery.30
7107163078Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Partypromoted "free soil".31
7107163079Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was theQuakers.32
7107163080Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of adesire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.33
7107163081Romantic authors in the South were more likely than writers in the North todefend the southern way of life, including slavery.34
7107163082Shaker societiessaw women exercise more power than men.35
7107163083Solitary confinement was meant to give prisoners opportunities to meditate on their wrongdoings and develop "__________."penitence36
7107163084Southern antebellum writers often wrotehistorical romances.37
7107163085The antislavery movement in the early 1800s was based on the idea ofcolonization.38
7107163086The 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 wasDavid Walker.39
7107163087The early feminist movement began at a world antislavery convention whenAmerican women delegates were turned away.40
7107163088The first great American school of painters was known as the __________ __________ School.Hudson River41
7107163089The founders of the Perkins School for the Blind believed thateven the blind or handicapped could discover inner strength and wisdom.42
7107163090The great network of institutions and charitable services for handicapped individuals that developed during the prewar years was known as theBenevolent Empire.43
7107163091The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance ofnatural beauty.44
7107163092The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill wasDorothea Dix.45
7107163093The meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848 generated a statement on women's rights patterned on theDeclaration of Independence.46
7107163094The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth centuryconsidered untamed nature the best source of inspiration......????47
7107163095The nineteenth-century Protestant revivalist movement, known as the __________ __________ Awakening, was based on the idea that everyone was capable of salvation and spiritual rebirth.Second Great48
7107163096The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was topermit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings.49
7107163097The prison reform movement sought to rehabilitate inmates through-solitary confinement. -silence on prison work crews.50
7107163098The pseudoscience of __________ made inferences about individuals' intelligence and character by studying the shape of their skull.phrenology51
7107163099The Second Great Awakening combined which two elements of nineteenth-century American culture?-reform movements. -Protestant revivalism.52
7107163100The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)led to the passage of "personal liberty laws".53
7107163101The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works ofMark Twain.54
7107163102The transcendentalists defined reason as an individual'scapacity to grasp truth and beauty by expressing emotions.55
7107163103The transcendentalists defined understanding as an individual'scapacity to repress instincts and to use the intellect to learn by rote.56
7107163104The transcendentalists viewed nature as asource of deep personal inspiration.57
7107163105The transcendentalists were among the first Americans toanticipate the environmental movement of the twentieth century.58
7107163106Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance ofAmerica's westward expansion.59
7107163107Uncle Tom's Cabin gained national popularity in the mid-nineteenth century by being reproduced in which of the following forms?-theatrical production. -novel.60
7107163108Upon which document in American History is the language of the Declaration of Sentiments based?Declaration of Independence61
7107163109Walt Whitman's poetry helped make _____ one of the defining ideals of antebellum America.individualism62
7107163110What has been the effect of marriage on women, according to the document?Husbands essentially become masters.63
7107163111What is the effect on the morality of women that results from male privileges, according to the Declaration?Women become irresponsible.64
7107163112What is the position of the Declaration of Sentiments on the question of female suffrage?It is an inalienable right.65
7107163113What most distinguished James Fenimore Cooper as a truly American novelist?He celebrated the American wilderness.66
7107163114What 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
7107163115What was the result for women who owned property in their own name?They were taxed without representation.68
7107163116What 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
7107163117Which 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
7107163118Which 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
7107163119Which of the following best describes the proportion of northerners who were pro-abolition?a small minority72
7107163120Which of the following best describes the state of public education in 1830?No state had a system of universal public education.73
7107163121Which of the following best reflects white male abolitionists' attitudes toward female abolitionists?It was inappropriate for women to be outspoken activists.74
7107163122Which of the following is NOT a Mormon belief?Life-long celibacy is important.75
7107163123Which of the following major writers of the antebellum period was a southerner?Edgar Allan Poe76
7107163124Which 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
7107163125Which of the following was NOT a demand made in the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"?Women should have their own social spheres.78
7107163126Which of the following was NOT a health fad in the antebellum years?antibiotics79
7107163127Which 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
7107163128Which of the following was NOT an idea Walt Whitman celebrated in his work?urban living81
7107163129Which of the following were goals established at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention for women's rights?-the right to vote. -equality with men.82
7107163130Which 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
7107163131Which 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
7107163132Which of the following women were among the leaders of the nineteenth-century feminist movement?-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -Susan B. Anthony. -Dorothea Dix.85
7107163133Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?It advocated sexual equality.86
7107163134Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?Walt Whitman87
7107163135Who led the migration of 12,000 Mormons from Illinois to what would become Salt Lake City, Utah?Brigham Young88
7107163136Who wrote the 1841 novel The Deerslayer?James Fenimore Cooper89
7107163137Why did early efforts to end slavery by repatriating slaves fail?Many African Americans were not interested in emigrating to Africa.90
7107163138Why 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
7107163139Why is the rhetoric of this document so effective?The language is based historically on the Declaration of Independence.92

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