Question 1

All of the following were nineteenth century notions of gender differences except

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A)   women had finely-tuned moral sensibilities.
B)   men were charged with teaching young boys to be good and productive citizens.
C)   the home was women's special sphere, the centerpiece of the cult of domesticity.
D)   men were always in danger of slipping into some savage way of life, if not for women's influence.
E)   women could be legally beaten by husbands.

Question 2

Of the following,the most successful of the early-nineteenth-century communitarian experiments was at

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A)   Brook Farm, Massachusetts.
B)   Oneida, New York.
C)   New Harmony, Indiana.
D)   Seneca Falls, New York.
E)   Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Oneida Community

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Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Emma Willard

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Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Phineas T.Barnum

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Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Burned-Over District

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Question 7

Perhaps the greatest inhibiting factor for American artists in the first half of the nineteenth century was the

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A)   lack of first-rate art schools.
B)   Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.
C)   cultural dependence on Europe.
D)   lack of adequate patronage from the wealthy or the government.
E)   popular suspicion of artistic creativity.

Question 8

Unitarians endorsed the concept of

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A)   the deity of Christ.
B)   original sin.
C)   free will and salvation through good works.
D)   predestination.
E)   the Bible as the norm of doctrine.

Question 9

All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it

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A)   resulted in the conversion of countless souls.
B)   encouraged a variety of humanitarian reforms.
C)   strengthened democratic denominations like the Baptists and Methodists.
D)   was a reaction against the growing liberalism in religion.
E)   was not as large as the First Great Awakening.

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Question 11

Transcendentalists were dedicated to

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A)   individualism.
B)   self-reliance.
C)   respect for authority.
D)   conventional wisdom.
E)   political activism.

Question 12

Tax-supported public education

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A)   existed mainly for the wealthy.
B)   eliminated private and parochial education in the United States.
C)   began in the South as early as 1800.
D)   provided little opportunity for the poor.
E)   was deemed essential for social stability and democracy.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Louisa May Alcott

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Question 14

The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s

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A)   was not recognized as a social problem.
B)   did not involve women.
C)   held little threat for the family because everyone drank.
D)   had little impact on the efficiency of labor.
E)   stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many.

Question 15

The Second Great Awakening tended to

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A)   promote religious diversity.
B)   reduce social class differences.
C)   blur regional differences.
D)   discourage church membership.
E)   weaken women's social position.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Herman Melville

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Question 17

By 1850,organized religion in America

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A)   retained the rigor of colonial religion.
B)   was ignored by three-fourths of the people.
C)   had lost some of its austere Calvinist rigor.
D)   had grown more conservative.
E)   had become tied to the upper classes.

Question 18

The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War was

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A)   William Gilmore Simms.
B)   John C. Calhoun.
C)   James Russell Lowell.
D)   Oliver Wendell Holmes.
E)   William Faulkner.

Question 19

Noah Webster's dictionary

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A)   had little impact until the twentieth century.
B)   helped to standardize the American language.
C)   was used to educate nineteenth-century slaves.
D)   came to the United States from Britain in the 1800s.
E)   gave legitimacy to American slang.

Question 20

The Oneida colony declined due to

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A)   widespread criticism of its sexual practices.
B)   a decline in animal trapping.
C)   their adoption of capitalism.
D)   the loss of Noyes's leadership.
E)   All of these

Exam 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860

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