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The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson


A) believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals.
B) asserted that through nature,individuals could find personal fulfillment.
C) was a leading critic of the American political system.
D) asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society.
E) remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life.

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

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The pre-Civil War reformer most concerned about expanding public education was ________,from the state of Massachusetts.

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Prior to 1860,public education in the United States


A) did not exist.
B) gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
C) was legally denied for all non-whites.
D) was funded by the federal government.
E) emphasized independence and creativity.

F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

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Mormonism


A) believed in human perfectibility.
B) emphasized individual liberty.
C) was founded by Brigham Young.
D) began in the Midwest.
E) always rejected polygamy.

F) All of the above
G) B) and C)

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The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to


A) isolate and protect Indians from white society.
B) help "regenerate" the Indian.
C) allow Indians to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
D) isolate and protect the Indians from white society,help "regenerate" them,and allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
E) None of these answers is correct.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

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

A) True
B) False

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Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans,James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of


A) America's westward expansion.
B) the American free-enterprise system.
C) religious spiritualism in America.
D) racism in America.
E) slavery in the democratic mind.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

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Herman Melville was less exuberant in his celebration of America than was Walt Whitman.

A) True
B) False

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The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" included a demand that women have the right to vote.

A) True
B) False

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The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

A) True
B) False

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


A) democratic ideals.
B) the yeoman farmer.
C) natural beauty.
D) realism.
E) the founders.

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

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James Fenimore Cooper thought Americans should become more like Europeans.

A) True
B) False

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The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau


A) was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B) felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts.
C) argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
D) established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.
E) argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States.

F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

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One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was


A) William Lloyd Garrison.
B) Frederick Douglass.
C) Sojourner Truth.
D) Benjamin Lundy.
E) Elijah Lovejoy.

F) C) and E)
G) All of the above

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The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v.Pennsylvania (1842)


A) prohibited the interstate slave trade.
B) led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."
C) angered abolitionists.
D) abolished slavery in the District of Columbia.
E) forced state officials to assist in the capture of runaways.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Americans in the Free-Soil movement sought to open up sections of the West to blacks.

A) True
B) False

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By the 1840s,Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott sought to apply the equality of treatment they received in the abolition movement to all aspects of female life.

A) True
B) False

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Hudson River school artists felt America had more promise than Europe.

A) True
B) False

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Those alarmed by immigration in the mid-nineteenth century were often drawn to the temperance movement.

A) True
B) False

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American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

A) True
B) False

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