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The new two party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s

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became an important part of the nation's checks and balances

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In the 1820s and 30s, the public's attitude regarding political parties

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accepted the sometimes wild contentiousness of political life.

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By the 1840s voter participation in the presidential election

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was nearly 80%

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The House of Representatives decided the 1824 election when

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no candidate received the majority of the vote in the Electoral College

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John Q Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed this man to be this.

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Henry Clay, secretary of state.

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As president, JQA was

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one of the least successful presidents in American history

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Andrew Jackson's political philosophy was based on his

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suspicion of the federal government

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Who is an awkward butterfly?

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Andy

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Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the

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newly won ascendancy of the masses

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The purpose behind the spoils system was

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to reward political supporters with public office

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The spoils system under Jackson resulted in

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the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

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The people who proposed the exceptionally high reates of the Tariff of 1828 were

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ardent supports of Andy Jackson

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The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was

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The south

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John Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition was an argument for

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States' rights

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The nullification crisis of 1828-1832 erupted over

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tariff policy

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The Force Bill of 1833 provided that

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the President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duty

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The person most responsible for defusing the tariff controversy that began in 1828 was

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Henry Clay

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In response to South Carolin's nullification of the Tariff of 1828, Andrew Jackson

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dispatched modest naval and military forces to the state while preparing a larger army

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The nullification crisis started by South Carolina over the Tariff of 1828 ended when

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Congress passed the compromise Tariff of 1833

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Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states because

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whites wanted Indian land

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The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was

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forced removal

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Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for all of the following reason except

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it put public service first; not profits

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Andrew Jackson made all of the following charges against the Bank of the US except that it

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refused to lend money to politicians

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One of the positive aspects of the Bank of the US was

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its promotion of economic expansion by making credit abundant

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While in existence, the second Bank of the United States

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was the depository of the funds of the national government

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Andrew Jackson's veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the US was

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a major expansion of presidential power.

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Andrew Jackson based his veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the US on

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the fact that he found the bill harmful to the nation

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One of the main reasons Andrew Jackson decided to weaken the Bank of the US after the 1832 election was

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his fear that Nicholas Biddle might try to manipulate the bank to force its recharter.

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Supporters of the Whig party included all of the following sans

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backers of southern states' rights.

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The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was

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hatred of Andy Jackson

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The Whigs hoped to win the 1836 election by

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forcing the election into the House of Representatives

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The Panic of 1837 was caused by all of the following except

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taking the country off the gold standard

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Americans moved into Texas

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after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin

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Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

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San Jacinto

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One reason for the Anglo-Texan rebellion against Mexican rule was that

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The Mexicans opposed slavery

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Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because

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antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery

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Most of the early American settlers in Texas came from

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the South and Southwest

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The Tippecanoe in the Whigs' 1840 campaign slogan was

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William Harrison

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William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was

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made to look like a poor western farmer

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The two political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to

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be socially and geographically diverse

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Life on the frontier was

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downright grim for most pioneer families

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Pioneering Americans marooned by geography

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became provincial in their attitudes

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In the early 19th century America, the

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urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate

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The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860

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resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities

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The Irish immigrants to early 19th century America

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were mostly Catholic

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When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities because

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they were too poor to move west to buy land

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When the "famine Irish" came to America, they

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mostly remained in the port cities of the Northeast

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Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the irish mostly because these immigrants were

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Catholics

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German immigrants in the early 19th century tended to

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support public schools.

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German immigrants to the Untied States

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left their homeland to escape economic hardships and autocratic government

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When German immigrants came to the US, they

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prospered with astonishing ease

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Those who were frightened by the rapid influx of Irish immigrants organized the

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Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called

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nativism

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Native-born Americans feared that Catholic immigrants to the United States would

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"establish" the Catholic church at the expense of Protestantism

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Immigrants coming to the United States before 1860

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helped to fuel economic expansion

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The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was

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Sammy Slater

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Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the

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cotton gin

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The American phase of the industrial revolution first blossomed in

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textile mills

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As a result of the development of the cotton gin,

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slavery was revived and expanded

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The underlying basis for modern mass production was the

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use of interchangeable parts.

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The early factory system distributed its benefits

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mostly to owners

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Who needs a diet?

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Castagnoli

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The American work force in the early 19th century was characterized by

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substantial employment of women and children in factories

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One reason that the lot of adult wage earners improved was the

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enfranchisement of the laboring man

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In Commonwealth v. Hunt, the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that

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labor unions were legal

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The "cult of domesticity"

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glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers

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Early 19th century American families

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were getting smaller

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With the development of cash-crop agriculture in the trans-Allegheny West,

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farmers quickly faced mounting indebtedness.

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The major application for steamboats transporting freight and passengers in the United States was on

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western and southern rivers

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The "canal era" of American history began with the construction of the

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Erie Canal in New York

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Most early railroads in the United States were built in the

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North

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Compared with canals, railroads

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could be built almost anywhere

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As a result of the transportation revolution,

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each region in the nation specialized in a particular type of economic activity

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In general, ____________ tended to bind the West and South together while __________ and ____________ connected the west to east.

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Steamboats/canals and railroads

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A major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing revolutions was

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a steady improvement in the average wages and standards of living

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By 1850, organized religion in America

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had lost some of its austere Calvinist rigor

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As a revivalist preacher, Charles Grandison Finney advocated for

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A perfect Christian kingdom on earth, opposition to alcohol, public prayer by women and opposition to slavery

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The Mormon religion originated in

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The Burned-Over District of New York

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The religion sects that gained most from the revivalism of the Second Great Awakening were the

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Methodists and Baptists

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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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The original prophet of the Mormon religion was

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Joseph Smith

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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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Noah Webster's dictionary

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helped to standardize the American language

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One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early 19th century was the belief that

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too much learning would injure women's brains and ruin their health

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Two areas where women in the 19th century were widely thought to be superior to men were

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moral sensibility and artistic refinement

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

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prison and asylum reform

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One sign that women in America were treated better than women in Europe was

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that rape was more severely punished in the US

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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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The Oneida colony declined due to

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A decline in animal trapping, widespread criticism of its sexual practices, their adoption of capitalism, and the loss of Noye's leadership.

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What was the most successful early 19th century communitarian experiments?

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Oneida, New York

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Who wrote The Sketch Book, who wrote Leatherstocking Tales, who wrote The American Scholar?

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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalists believed that all knowledge came through

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an inner light

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Civil Disobedience was an essay that later influenced both Gandhi and MLK, it was written by

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Thoreau

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One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Who wrote Hiawatha?

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Longfellow

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