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HWF #15

Chapter 15: Ferment of Reform and Culture

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___ 1. The Deist faith embraced all of the following except
A) the concept of original sin.
B) the reliance on reason rather than revolution.
C) belief in a Supreme Being.
D) belief in human beings' capacity for moral behavior.
E) denial of the divinity of Jesus.
___ 2. By 1850, organized religion in America
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.
___ 3. All the following are true of the Second Great Awakening except that it
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.
___ 4. An early-nineteenth-century religious rationalist sect devoted to the rule of reason and free
will was the
A) Unitarians.
D) Mormons.
B) Seventh-Day Adventists

E) Roman Catholics.

C) Methodists.
___ 5. As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated
A) opposition to slavery.
D) public prayer by women.
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B) a perfect Christian kingdom on earth.

E) all of the above.

C) opposition to alcohol.
___ 6. The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) promote religious diversity.

D) discourage church membership.

B) reduce social class differences.

E) weaken women's social position.

C) blur regional differences.

___ 7. The Mormon religion originated in
A) Utah.
B) New England.
C) Nauvoo, Illinois.
D) Ireland.
E) the Burned-Over District of New York.
___ 8. The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
D) the angel Moroni.
B) Brigham Young.

E) Joseph Smith.

C) Charles G. Finney.
___ 9. The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) widen the lines between classes and regions.
B) open Episcopal and Presbyterian churches to the poor.
C) unite southern Baptists and southern Methodists against slavery.
D) bring the more prosperous and conservative eastern churches into the revivalist camps.
E) increase the influence of educated clergy.
___ 10. Which one of the following is least related to the other four?
A) Brigham Young
D) Salt Lake City
B) William Miller

E) polygamy

C) The Book of Mormon

___ 11. Tax-supported public education
A) existed mainly for the wealthy.
B) eliminated private and parochial education in the U.S.
C) began in the South as early as 1800.
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D) provided little opportunity for the poor.

E) was deemed essential for social stability and democracy.
___ 12. One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early
nineteenth century was the belief that
A) they would gain political and economic power through education.
B) women were inherently conservative and opposed to social reform.
C) children should grow up without the influence of educated women.
D) the Constitution prohibited women from attending colleges.
E) too much learning would injure women's brains and ruin their health.
___ 13. Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great
Awakening because
A) evangelical religion emphasized their spiritual dignity and religious social reform
legitimized their activity outside the home.
B) they refused to accept the idea that there was a special female role in society.
C) they were looking to obtain as much power as possible.
D) many of the leading preachers and evangelists were women.
E) they saw the churches as the first institutions that needed to be reformed.
___ 14. New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
A) prison and asylum reform.
D) abolitionism.
B) the peace movement.

E) women's education.

C) the temperance movement.

___ 15. The excessive consumption of alcohol by Americans in the 1800s
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.
___ 16. Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because
A) frontier life necessitated these distinctions.
B) men were regarded as morally superior beings.
C) it was the duty of men to teach the young how to be good, productive citizens
D) the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles.
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E) women believed this emphasis brought them greater respect.

___ 17. One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was
A) that American women could vote.
B) that the law in the U.S. prohibited men from beating them.
C) that rape was more severely punished in the U.S.
D) that their ideas of equality were well received by American men.
E) that American women earned respect by engaging in male activities.
___ 18. By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by
A) the temperance movement.
D) prison reform advocates.
B) the Lucy Stoners.

E) evangelical revivalism.

C) abolitionism.
___ 19. The beliefs advocated by John Humphrey Noyes included all of the following except
A) no private property.
B) sharing of all material goods.
C) belief in a vengeful deity.
D) strictly monogamous marriages.
E) improvement of the human race through eugenics.
___ 20. The Oneida colony declined due to
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 the above.
___ 21. Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held _________________________
as one of their founding ideals.
A) rugged individualism
B) pacifism
C) capitalism
D) opposition to communism
E) cooperative social and economic practices

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___ 22. When it came to scientific achievement, America in the 1800s was
A) a world leader.
B) a nation from which other countries borrowed.
C) most noted for its successes in medicine.
D) more interested in practical matters.
E) focused primarily on biology and chemistry.
___ 23. Match each individual below with the correct description.
A. Louis Agassiz
1. author of Birds of America
B. Gilbert Stuart
2. portrait artist
C. John J. Audubon
3. romantic novelist
4. Harvard biologist
A) A-3, B-2, C-4
D) A-4, B-2, C-1
B) A-4, B-3, C-1

E) A-1, B-4, C-2

C) A-2, B-1, C-3

___ 24. The Hudson River school excelled in the art of painting
A) portraits.
D) daguerreotypes.
B) classical Frescos.

E) landscapes.

C) still life.
___ 25. Match each writer below with his work.
A. Washington Irving
B. James Fenimore Cooper
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A) A-1, B-2, C-3

1. Walden
2. Leatherstocking Tales
3. The Sketch Book, with Rip Van Winkle
4. The American Scholar
D) A-3, B-1, C-4

B) A-3, B-2, C-4

E) A-4, B-2, C-1

C) A-2, B-3, C-1

___ 26. All of the following influenced transcendental thought except
A) German philosophers.
D) individualism.
B) Oriental religions.

E) love of nature.

C) Catholic belief.
___ 27. Civil Disobedience, an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
A) Louisa May Alcott.
D) Margaret Fuller.
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

E) Henry David Thoreau.

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C) James Fenimore Cooper.

___ 28. Match each writer below with his work.
A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Herman Melville
A) A-3, B-2, C-l

1. The Scarlet Letter

2. Moby Dick
3. Hiawatha
D) B-2, C-1, D-3

B) A-1, B-3, D-2

E) A-3, C-l, D-2

C) A-1, C-3, D-2

Each of the following questions may have two, three, four, or five correct answers. Circle all correct answers
for each question.
29. The Mormons were advocates or practitioners of
a. polygamy.
b. free enterprise.
c. theocracy.
d. pacifism.
e. birth control.
30. The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included
a. Lucretia Mott.
b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
c. Susan B. Anthony.
d. Jane Addams.
e. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
31. The Knickerbocker group of American writers included
a. Henry David Thoreau.
b. Louisa May Alcott.
c. Washington Irving.
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
e. William Cullen Bryant.
32. American transcendentalist writers included
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
b. Henry David Thoreau.
c. James Fenimore Cooper.
d. Angelina Grimke
e. Margaret Fuller.
33. Transcendentalists were dedicated to
a. individualism.
b. self-reliance.
c. respect for authority.
d. conventional wisdom.
e. political activism.

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34.

In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s, historians have
regarded some reformers in the abolitionist movement not so much as
heroes, but as people who sought social control. What is your opinion?
Justify your opinion.

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