Chapter 15

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A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the

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wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812

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Neal Dow sponsored the Maine Law of 1851, which called for

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a ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor

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The original prophet of the Mormon religion was

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Joseph Smith

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When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was

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more interested in practical matters

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

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Oneida, New York

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Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the belief

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that a Supreme Being endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior

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Church attendance was still a regular ritual for ___ of the 23 million Americans in 1850

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three-fourths

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The American medical profession by 1860 was noted for

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its still primitive standards

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Most of the Utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ___ as one of their founding ideals

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cooperative social and economic practices

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The Mormon religion originated in

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the Burned-Over District of NY

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The Oneida colony declined due to

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widespread criticism of its sexual practices

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The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of

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Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann

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New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of

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prison and asylum reform

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The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting

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Landscapes

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One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that

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too much learning would injure woman’s brains and ruin their health

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Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through

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An inner light

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An early nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free will was the

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Methodists

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Virtually all the distinguished historians of early-nineteenth-century America came from

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New England

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The Second Great Awakening tended to

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widen the lines between classes and regions

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“Civil Disobedience,” an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist

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Henry David Thoreau

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By the 1850s, the crusade for women’s rights was eclipsed by

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Abolitionism

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The key to Oneida’s financial success was

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the manufacture of steel animal traps and silverware

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Two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were

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moral sensibility and artistic refinement

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Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in the nineteenth-century America because

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The market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles

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Besides polygamy, a characteristic of Mormonism that angered many non-Mormon Americans was their

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Voting as a unit and openly drilling their militia

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The Second Great Awakening tended to

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promote religious diversity

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A dark writer whose genres included poetry, horror stories, and detective fiction was

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Unitarians endorsed the concept of

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salvation through good works.

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

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Puritan prejudice that art was a waste of time.

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Tax-supported public education

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was deemed essential for social stability and democracy

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The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s

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stemmed from the hard and monotonous life of many

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The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotion and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was

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Walt Whitman

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Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

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William Miller

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The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America’s greatest geniuses in the twentieth century was

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Herman Melville