History 12 APUSH evens – Flashcards
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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism
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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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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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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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Herman Melville's most important literary work was
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Moby Dick
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Prior to the Civil War, Southern writers
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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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Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living
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Walt Whitman
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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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carefully monitored sexual behavior to protect women
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saw women exercise more power than men
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Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?
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It advocated sexual equality
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In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States
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linked alcohol to crime and poverty
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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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her character and intelligence
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In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was made by
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the answer is NOT Edward Jenner according to Quia, the answer is on pg. 330
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The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote
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democracy
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Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States
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included the practice of solitary confinement
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In 1840, a catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with
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abolition
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Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the
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Quakers
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In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society
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was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should
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stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than to whites
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The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was
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David Walker
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In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted
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The answer is NOT the largest reform movement in the nation according to Quia, the answer is on pg. 336 I was too lazy to look it up
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In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided
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The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
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led to the passage of "personal liberty laws."
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The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to
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spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience
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The author of this quizlet set is
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a perfect person
