Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a
desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change
In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature
was that American artists had little to offer Europe
All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River School EXCEPT
James Whistler
All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
Sydney Smith
Walt Whitman
Celebrated the liberation of the individual
The writings of Edgar Allen Poe were
primarily sad and macabre
Transcendentalists
regarded reason to be the most important human faculty
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
argued Americans have a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States
The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was
to permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings
one of the most enduring of the Pre- Civil War utopian colonies was
Oneida
which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism
complete celibacy
Mormonism
Believed in human perfectibility
Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists
formed a crusade against personal immorality
In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United states
typically killed more then half of those who contracted the disease
During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was
the abuse of basic knowledge about disease
Prior to 1860, public education in the united States
gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world
The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the criminally ill was
Dorthea Dix
The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to
All of these answers are correct
The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York convention on women’s rights
issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence
Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The American Colonization society helped to transport blacks from the united States to
Liberia
Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be
strongly opposed to Southern Slavery
Fredrick Douglass
spent years lecturing in England against slavery
One leading abolitionists who was murdered for his activism was
Elijah Lovejoy
In the 1840s William Lloyd Garrison spoke against
defensive wars
Prior to the Civil War, The liberty party
promoted “free soil”
