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In the 1840s, William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

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defensive wars.

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Prior to 1860, southern women differed from northern women in that they

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were expected to be more subordinate to men.

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Southern whites who did not own slaves

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were largely dependent on the plantation economy.

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Mormonism

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believed in human perfectibility.

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Southern writers such as Augustus B. Longstreet, Joseph G. Baldwin, and Johnson J. Hooper

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developed a realist tradition that focused on the lives of ordinary people.

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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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Regarding religion, American slaves

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often incorporated African features into their Christianity

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The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights

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issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.

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The most important and popular American paintings of the first half of the nineteenth century set out to

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evoke the wonder of the nation's landscape.

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The New Orleans magazine publisher, James B. D. De Bow, championed

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southern economic independence from the North.

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Short-staple cotton

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helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region.

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Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

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gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

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Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party

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promoted "Free Soil."

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One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

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Nat Turner.

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The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

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slavery.

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Within the American South, the institution of slavery

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created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a society and culture of their own.

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The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were

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primarily sad and macabre

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In the 1830s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

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a small percentage of the national population.

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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, the center of economic power in the South

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shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

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Tobacco cultivation in the antebellum South

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was gradually moving westward

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The slave codes of the American South

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defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black.

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The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to

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Liberia

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Shaker societies

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saw women exercise more power than men.

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The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

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underground railroad.

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Which of the following statements regarding urban slavery is FALSE?

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Urban slaves were prohibited from having contact with free blacks.

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A runaway slave making a successful escape from the American South was

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highly unlikely.

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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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Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population

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dramatically shifted into the Southwest.

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Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women

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centered their lives in the home.

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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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Frederick Douglass

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spent two years lecturing in England against slavery.

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In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with

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the abolition of slavery.

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In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by

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Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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argued that personal salvation could be achieved by individual effort.

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Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South

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occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned slaves themselves.

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Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum South?

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Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.

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Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their

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perception of white racial superiority.

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In the 1850s, the southern social theorist George Fitzhugh wrote that women

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were like children.

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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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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 transcendentalists

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anticipated the environmental movement of the twentieth century.

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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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Though the trade and sale of slaves continued to be legal inside the U.S. until the Civil War, the "slave trade"—that is, the importation of slaves from Africa or any other foreign locale—was made illegal in

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1808.

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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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The South may have failed to develop a large industrial economy due to all the following factors EXCEPT

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a shortage of labor.

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Most "plain folk" of the Old South

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were never able to move into the planter class.

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Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

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subtle defiance.

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By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States

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two-thirds

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