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1. What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?

A) Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.

B) Americans valued and respected differing views on political topics.

C) The American people welcomed all types of immigrants, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

D) Most Americans were uninfluenced by political parties and did not vote by party lines.

2. Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in postrevolutionary America?

A) Most citizens believed that government and politics should be completely free from the influence of religious beliefs.

B) The Baptist Church led the campaign for state protection and funding of all Christian denominations.

C) Most states continued to support churches indirectly by not taxing their property or ministers' incomes.

D) By 1786, the Anglican Church of Virginia was the only example of an established church in any state.

3. What was the Second Great Awakening that took place in the United States in the nineteenth century?

A) A wave of educational reforms in the early republic inspired by Thomas Grimké

B) The republican cultural and intellectual movement inspired by Thomas Jefferson

C) A long-lasting religious revival that made the United States a genuinely religious society

D) The nationalistic cultural backlash that demonstrated a rejection of English cultural supremacy

4. Which were the two fastest-growing American church denominations during the early nineteenth century?

A) Baptists and Methodists

B) Lutherans and Presbyterians

C) Presbyterians and Episcopalians

D) Episcopalians and Congregationalists

5. How did evangelical Christians spread religious revival during the Second Great Awakening?

A) By holding large camp meetings

B) By creating parochial schools

C) By preaching the doctrine of original sin

D) By using better-educated preachers

6. Which of the following was a result of the Second Great Awakening?

A) Churches split into warring factions.

B) Different denominations cooperated with one another.

C) Americans turned their backs on the poor.

D) The gulf between American politics and religion widened further.

7. How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?

A) By supporting political reforms that were designed to help disadvantaged families survive adversity

B) By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically

C) By establishing missions to bring their messages of moral purity and self-discipline to the poor

D) By ignoring social problems and concentrating on improving the behavior of their children and household servants

8. Charles Grandison Finney found success as a young revivalist preacher in the 1820s by emphasizing which of the following issues in his sermons?

A) Workers' need for higher wages

B) Poor children's need for better schools

C) The importance of personal conversion

D) Religious justifications for slavery

9. Through which of the following movements did evangelical reformers succeed in effecting substantial legal and cultural transformations in early nineteenth-century America?

A) Prison reform

B) Prostitution

C) Immigration reform

D) Temperance

10. Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

A) National government initiatives

B) The Second Great Awakening

C) State government initiatives

D) Industrialization

11. The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

A) Individualism

B) The cult of domesticity

C) Utopianism

D) Transcendentalism

12. Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

A) Temperance

B) Prison reform

C) Educational reform

D) Transcendentalism

13. Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?

A) Brook Farm's residents pioneered the use of advanced farming techniques.

B) They practiced nineteenth-century versions of free love and communism.

C) They wanted to combine farming with study and a lively intellectual life.

D) Brook Farm's residents consisted mostly of families and single women.

14. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?

A) He rejected traditional biblical teachings and promoted atheism.

B) He argued that people should reject old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.

C) He defended traditional Calvinist theology, which had been challenged by the Second Great Awakening.

D) He suggested that science and technology would lead humankind into a new era of enlightenment.

15. Which of the following statements about Ralph Waldo Emerson is correct?

A) He was a Unitarian minister who eventually rejected organized religion.

B) His view of individualism promoted hard work and indulgent consumption.

C) He resigned his pulpit due to his fear of public speaking.

D) Emerson's influence was briefly intense, but it did not stand the test of time.

16. Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau's book Walden?

A) It was written to document Thoreau's spiritual search for meaning beyond the artificiality of “civilized” life.

B) It was intended to serve as a guidebook for others who wanted to learn how to survive alone in the woods.

C) The book sought to advise farmers on practical matters that would increase the profitability of small farms.

D) It warned of the dangers that could arise from too many efforts to promote and create social reform.

17. Which of the following is properly paired?

A) Henry David Thoreau Uncle Tom's Cabin

B) Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

C) Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Scholar

D) Herman Melville The Scarlet Letter

18. Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?

A) Both celebrated the positive potential of the individual.

B) They wrote mostly of the past and ignored current realities in the United States.

C) Both warned against the restrictions imposed on individuals by social groups.

D) They criticized transcendentalism and warned against excessive individualism.

19. Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

A) They believed men were spiritually weaker than women.

B) They excluded African Americans in order to maintain racial purity.

C) Men greatly outnumbered women in Shaker communities.

D) They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.

20. Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America?

A) Fourierists inspired Susan B. Anthony and helped launch the women's rights movement.

B) It demonstrated the difficulty of creating enduring utopian communities.

C) Mormonism was founded on the principles of Fourierism.

D) It created a lasting and uniquely American style of furniture.

21. Which of the following was an evangelical movement that believed the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and people could attain complete freedom from sin?

A) Mormonism

B) Perfectionism

C) Fourierism

D) Transcendentalism

22. The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?

A) Complex marriage

B) Monogamy

C) Celibacy

D) Equality of men and women

23. Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?

A) All of these groups exercised great influence over American politics.

B) These utopians all criticized capitalism but made tremendous profits through manufacturing.

C) They repudiated heterosexual sex and sexuality.

D) They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.

24. Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830?

A) It was a historical account of the Mormons' westward migration to Utah.

B) It claimed that Jesus Christ visited an ancient American civilization soon after his resurrection.

C) The book offered a detailed explanation and justification of the Mormons' social philosophy.

D) The book was written anonymously by anti-Mormons to discredit Mormon beliefs.

25. For this question, refer to the following sermon.

Intemperance is the sin of our land, and, with our boundless prosperity, is coming in upon us like a flood; and if anything shall defeat the hopes of the world, which hang upon our experiment of civil liberty, it is that river of fire. . . .

In every city and town the poor-tax, created chiefly by intemperance, is [increasing the burden on taxpaying citizens]. . . . The frequency of going upon the town [relying on public welfare] has taken away the reluctance of pride, and destroyed the motives to providence which the fear of poverty and suffering once supplied. The prospect of a destitute old age, or of a suffering family, no longer troubles the vicious portion of our community. They drink up their daily earnings, and bless God for the poor-house, and begin to look upon it as, of right, the drunkard's home. . . . Every intemperate and idle man, whom you behold tottering about the streets and steeping himself at the stores, regards your houses and lands as pledged to take care of him, puts his hands deep, annually, into your pockets. . . .

What then is this universal, natural, and national remedy for intemperance? it is the banishment of ardent spirits from the list of lawful articles of commerce, by a correct and efficient public sentiment; such as has turned slavery out of half our land, and will yet expel it from the world. . . .

This however cannot be done effectually so long as the traffic in ardent spirits is regarded as lawful, and is patronized by men of reputation and moral worth in every part of the land. Like slavery, it must be regarded as sinful, impolitic, and dishonorable. That no measures will avail short of rendering ardent spirits a contraband of trade, is nearly self-evident.

Lyman Beecher, Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance, 1829

The ideas expressed in the excerpt above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in U.S. history?

A) The emergences of new national cultures

B) A sense of unique national mission and destiny

C) Deepening regional divisions brought about by cultural differences

D) Periodic bursts of religious reform and revivalism

26. For this question, refer to the following sermon.

Intemperance is the sin of our land, and, with our boundless prosperity, is coming in upon us like a flood; and if anything shall defeat the hopes of the world, which hang upon our experiment of civil liberty, it is that river of fire. . . .

In every city and town the poor-tax, created chiefly by intemperance, is [increasing the burden on taxpaying citizens]. . . . The frequency of going upon the town [relying on public welfare] has taken away the reluctance of pride, and destroyed the motives to providence which the fear of poverty and suffering once supplied. The prospect of a destitute old age, or of a suffering family, no longer troubles the vicious portion of our community. They drink up their daily earnings, and bless God for the poor-house, and begin to look upon it as, of right, the drunkard's home. . . . Every intemperate and idle man, whom you behold tottering about the streets and steeping himself at the stores, regards your houses and lands as pledged to take care of him, puts his hands deep, annually, into your pockets. . . .

What then is this universal, natural, and national remedy for intemperance? it is the banishment of ardent spirits from the list of lawful articles of commerce, by a correct and efficient public sentiment; such as has turned slavery out of half our land, and will yet expel it from the world. . . .

This however cannot be done effectually so long as the traffic in ardent spirits is regarded as lawful, and is patronized by men of reputation and moral worth in every part of the land. Like slavery, it must be regarded as sinful, impolitic, and dishonorable. That no measures will avail short of rendering ardent spirits a contraband of trade, is nearly self-evident.

Lyman Beecher, Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance, 1829

Which of the following would be most likely to oppose the ideas expressed in the excerpt above?

A) Southern slave owners

B) Members of the urban middle class

C) Ethic communities of immigrants

D) State governments

27. For this question, refer to the following sermon.

Intemperance is the sin of our land, and, with our boundless prosperity, is coming in upon us like a flood; and if anything shall defeat the hopes of the world, which hang upon our experiment of civil liberty, it is that river of fire. . . .

In every city and town the poor-tax, created chiefly by intemperance, is [increasing the burden on taxpaying citizens]. . . . The frequency of going upon the town [relying on public welfare] has taken away the reluctance of pride, and destroyed the motives to providence which the fear of poverty and suffering once supplied. The prospect of a destitute old age, or of a suffering family, no longer troubles the vicious portion of our community. They drink up their daily earnings, and bless God for the poor-house, and begin to look upon it as, of right, the drunkard's home. . . . Every intemperate and idle man, whom you behold tottering about the streets and steeping himself at the stores, regards your houses and lands as pledged to take care of him, puts his hands deep, annually, into your pockets. . . .

What then is this universal, natural, and national remedy for intemperance? it is the banishment of ardent spirits from the list of lawful articles of commerce, by a correct and efficient public sentiment; such as has turned slavery out of half our land, and will yet expel it from the world. . . .

This however cannot be done effectually so long as the traffic in ardent spirits is regarded as lawful, and is patronized by men of reputation and moral worth in every part of the land. Like slavery, it must be regarded as sinful, impolitic, and dishonorable. That no measures will avail short of rendering ardent spirits a contraband of trade, is nearly self-evident.

Lyman Beecher, Six Sermons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils, and Remedy of Intemperance, 1829

Which of the following led most directly led to the sentiments expressed in the excerpt above?

A) The abolition movement

B) The Market Revolution

C) The Second Great Awakening.

D) The spread of democratic political ideals

28. Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?

A) The rapid increase in life expectancy

B) America's relatively high birthrate

C) Immigration

D) The growth of urban culture

29. Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century?

A) Mainstream churches' timidity about addressing sexual issues explicitly

B) The subsistence wages and exploitative conditions of women's jobs

C) An influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern European countries

D) Cities' refusal to pass legislation banning prostitution and pornography

30. Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?

A) They were pioneered by P. T. Barnum, who founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

B) Minstrel shows celebrated the lifestyle of the “b'hoys.”

C) Minstrel shows contributed to the problem of prostitution in the big cities.

D) They were a popular form of entertainment and social criticism.

31. Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?

A) Male promiscuity

B) Minstrel shows

C) Prostitution

D) The Democratic Party

32. For this question,

The poster above is best understood in the context of

A) the abolitionist movement's highly visible campaign against slavery.

B) racist stereotyping and the notion of slavery as a positive good.

C) regional groups developing cultures that reflected their experiences.

D) transformations in gender roles and expectations that emerged during this period.

33. For this question, refer to the following poster advertising Barlow, Wilson, Primrose, and West's “Mammoth Minstrels' Colored Masquerade.”

Which of the following groups was most likely the intended audience of the poster above?

A) Abolitionists

B) Slaves

C) Working-class whites

D) The urban elite and middle classes

34. For this question, refer to the following poster advertising Barlow, Wilson, Primrose, and West's “Mammoth Minstrels' Colored Masquerade.”

Which of the following ideas or trends of the twentieth century would compare most closely with those depicted in the artwork above?

A) Society's assumptions about gender in the 1950s

B) Demands of African Americans for equality in the 1960s

C) The Harlem Renaissance movement in the 1920s

D) The ambivalence of the government toward Mexicans in the 1930s and 1940s

35. In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?

A) He justified slave rebellion and warned white Americans that violence and retribution would come if justice were delayed.

B) He appealed to the religious consciences of slaveholders to recognize slavery as being morally wrong.

C) He approved of colonization programs to establish an African republic for freed American slaves.

D) He urged slaves not to rebel but to seek comfort in their relationships and religious activities instead.

36. Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

A) The rebels won their freedom.

B) A national convention of African American activists met in Philadelphia.

C) Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented.

D) Rioting erupted in northern cities.

37. Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

A) He attacked the U.S. Constitution because it condoned slavery.

B) He was motivated by political, not religious, concerns.

C) Garrison believed violence was an acceptable means for ending American slavery.

D) Garrison called for the institution of gradual abolition in all states.

38. How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?

A) Female abolitionists often discussed issues of slavery among themselves, but they had limited involvement in the movement.

B) Women were not active in the abolition movement.

C) Women interested in abolition attended meetings with their husbands but did not actively participate in the societies.

D) Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

39. In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics?

A) Smuggling weapons to slaves for use in an eventual uprising

B) Purchasing and freeing slaves threatened with a sale that would break up their families

C) Mounting civil disobedience actions and mass demonstrations to protest slavery

D) Sponsoring public lectures and collecting signatures on antislavery petitions

40. Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?

A) Lecture tours demanding the end of the international slave trade

B) Aid to fugitive slaves

C) Continuous demonstrations against slavery outside the White House

D) Financial support for free blacks willing to foment rebellion in the South

41. Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?

A) Wageworkers feared that freed blacks would work for lower wages and compete for jobs.

B) The northerners supported slavery only because of the belief of black inferiority.

C) They were interested in maintaining the English Protestant society of the North.

D) They did not want the Baptists beliefs held by many slaves to spread to the North.

42. What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?

A) It suspended the writ of habeas corpus for any abolitionist speaker arrested for violating antiabolitionist laws.

B) The policy automatically tabled and prevented discussion of any antislavery petitions received by the House.

C) It prevented southern politicians from giving proslavery speeches on the floor of the House.

D) The rule made it a federal crime to distribute abolitionist tracts in any state where slavery was legal.

43. Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?

A) Most held low-wage jobs as farmworkers, day laborers, or laundresses.

B) They constituted a majority of the African American population in the South by 1820.

C) Many free blacks would have settled in Africa had they been able to afford the trip.

D) Most northern states passed laws banning free blacks from owning or running a business.

44. The public movement for women's rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?

A) The Second Great Awakening

B) Mormonism

C) The American Revolution

D) The Oneida Community

45. Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?

A) Advocated women's right to vote and hold elected offices

B) Promoted the notion that higher education would make women better mothers

C) Emphasized the social importance of homemaking and domesticity

D) Promoted less restrictive feminine clothing to protect women's health

46. What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?

A) To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families

B) To create new opportunities for male and female reformers to work together as equals in the same organization

C) To create a network of schools to train young, middle-class women in manners and morals

D) To condemn prostitution and punish young women who participated in urban prostitution

47. During the 1840s, American women's rights activists focused on which of the following goals?

A) Challenging the conventional division of labor within the family

B) Strengthening the legal rights of married women

C) Making it easier for married women to file for divorce

D) Educating women about birth control and abortion

48. Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following?

A) Banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of birth control devices

B) Made seduction of women a crime

C) Banned the common practice of abortion

D) Made solicitation of prostitutes a crime

49. Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?

A) Prison reform

B) Educational reform

C) Temperance

D) Abolition

50. What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?

A) To provide moral guidance for young, working women who were living away from their families

B) To create new opportunities for male and female reformers to work together as equals in the same organization

C) To create a network of schools to train young, middle-class women in manners and morals

D) To condemn prostitution and punish young women who participated in urban prostitution