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What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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

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 B)False

Question 3

One of the more radical doctrines the Mormons followed was the marriage practice known as ________.

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Question 4

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) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 5

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 D)
G) B) and D)

Question 6

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

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A)   democratic ideals.
B)   the yeoman farmer.
C)   natural beauty.
D)   realism.
E)   the founding fathers.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

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

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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.F) C) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 9

Discuss the various ideas and divisions within the antislavery movement.

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Question 10

Of the major experiments in utopian living, which do you believe had the most long-term influence on modern society? Explain.

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Question 11

James Fenimore Cooper thought Americans should become more like Europeans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

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

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Question 13

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights

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A)   issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
B)   asserted that women should have a place in society distinctly different from that of men.
C)   refused to allow men to attend.
D)   called on the government to treat both genders and all races with equality.
E)   shied away from demanding female suffrage, as this was too radical at the time.F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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

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A)   James Whistler.
B)   Thomas Cole.
C)   Frederic Church.
D)   Albert Bierstadt.
E)   Asher Durand.F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 17

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The search for social discipline was particularly clear in the battle over prohibition laws, which pitted established Catholics against new Protestants immigrants, to many of whom drinking was an important social ritual and an integral part of the life of their communities.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed efforts to regulate the profession. They considered the licensing of physicians to be "undemocratic."

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A) True 
 B)False

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Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed efforts to regulate the profession. They considered the licensing of physicians to be "undemocratic."

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

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One of the more radical doctrines the Mormons followed was the marriage practice known as ________.

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American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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James Fenimore Cooper thought Americans should become more like Europeans.

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

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

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Of the major experiments in utopian living, which do you believe had the most long-term influence on modern society? Explain.

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

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

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