chapter 12 part 1 – Flashcards
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Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
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desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.
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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature
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was that American artists had little to offer Europe.
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The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of
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natural beauty.
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All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT
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James Whistler
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Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River school?
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a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment
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All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
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Sydney Smith.
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Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of
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America's westward expansion
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Walt Whitman
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celebrated the liberation of the individual
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Herman Melville's most important literary work was
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Moby Dick.
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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was
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"The Raven
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The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works of
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Mark Twain.
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Transcendentalists
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regarded reason to be the most important human faculty
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The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
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asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment
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The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
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argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States.
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The transcendentalist movement
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anticipated the environmental protection movement of the twentieth century
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The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to
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permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings
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Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living
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Walt Whitman
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One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was
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Oneida.
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In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community
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carefully monitored sexual behavior to protect women.
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Mormonism
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believed in human perfectibility
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Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
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It advocated sexual equality.
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Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists
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In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States
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In the nineteenth century, cholera epidemics in the United States
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were diminished, as physicians gained a basic understanding of bacteria.
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According to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?
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character and intelligence
