Posted: May 13th, 2021

American History essay

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The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.
Selected Answer:
True
Answers:
True
False

• Question 2
5 out of 5 points

Although it sold well, the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin had little impact on American antislavery attitudes.
Selected Answer:
False
Answers: True

False

• Question 3
5 out of 5 points

The Second Great Awakening succeeded in restoring to prominence traditional doctrines such as predestination.
Selected Answer:
False
Answers: True

False

• Question 4
5 out of 5 points

Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.
Selected Answer:
True
Answers:
True
False

• Question 5
5 out of 5 points

The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was essentially restricted to white people.
Selected Answer:
False
Answers: True

False

• Question 6
5 out of 5 points

To abolitionist, slavery was a question of morality, not economics.
Selected Answer:
True
Answers:
True
False

• Question 7
5 out of 5 points

Robert Owen recruited followers for his program to reform society by teaching that
Selected Answer:
shared property and equality of work division would foster tolerant people.
Answers:
human character was shaped by skull shape and size.

shared property and equality of work division would foster tolerant people.

individual self-reliance held the key to social progress.

only a privileged few could be made perfect.

• Question 8
5 out of 5 points

What reform movement won temporary political success through the Maine Law?
Selected Answer:
the anti-drinking crusade
Answers:
the anti-drinking crusade
the movement to improve prison conditions

the campaign for women’s suffrage

the movement for public high schools

• Question 9
0 out of 5 points

Which of the following statements about Romanticism is accurate?
Selected Answer:
It was a uniquely American cultural movement.
Answers: It was incompatible with the doctrines of the revivals.

It came from Europe as part of the Enlightenment.

It glorified the individual.

It was a uniquely American cultural movement.

• Question 10
0 out of 5 points

By 1850 Catholics accounted for ________ percent of the U.S. population—the same percentage as Presbyterians.
Selected Answer:
5
Answers:
8
14

5
11

• Question 11
5 out of 5 points

Who was the person who founded modern revivalism?
Selected Answer:
Charles Grandison Finney
Answers:
Harriett Stowe

Lyman Beecher

Charles Grandison Finney

George Whitefield

• Question 12
5 out of 5 points

Why was the loose network of antislavery sympathizers who conveyed runaway slaves north to freedom known as the Underground Railroad?
Selected Answer:
Runaway slaves were directed by conductors from one “station” to the next.
Answers:
Runaway slaves were directed by conductors from one “station” to the next.

Many of the segments north were through secret tunnels constructed to bypass major roads.
Slaves traveled in secret compartments in Pullman sleeping cars, whose only access was from below the car.

The route was primarily by subway in the major eastern cities.

• Question 13
5 out of 5 points

Some secular thinkers shared the Transcendentalists’ view that ________ was corrupting American society.
Selected Answer:
All of these answers are correct.
Answers:
acquisitiveness

competition

inequality

All of these answers are correct.

• Question 14
0 out of 5 points

Who among the following did NOT oppose Garrisonian abolitionism?
Selected Answer:
other abolitionists, whom Garrison alienated with his radical condemnation of political solutions
Answers:
southerners, who drove antislavery sympathizers out of the South

women, whom Garrison alienated when he refused to link the antislavery cause to women’s rights

other abolitionists, whom Garrison alienated with his radical condemnation of political solutions

northerners, who seized Garrison and killed Lovejoy

• Question 15
5 out of 5 points

Who became most disillusioned with the U.S. Constitution and political system?
Selected Answer:
William Lloyd Garrison
Answers:
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Lyman Beecher

William Lloyd Garrison

Horace Mann

• Question 16
5 out of 5 points

Seneca Falls, New York, was the site of
Selected Answer:
the first major women’s rights convention.
Answers:
George Ripley’s Brook Farm.

the first major women’s rights convention.
Charles Grandison Finney’s greatest revival.

Lane Seminary.

• Question 17
5 out of 5 points

Transcendentalism
Selected Answer:
sought to rise above reason through individualist spiritual communion with nature.
Answers:
rejected individualism in favor of utopian communalism.

was based on the ideas of Dorothea Dix.
was the theological foundation undergirding the revivals of the Second Great Awakening.

sought to rise above reason through individualist spiritual communion with nature.

• Question 18
5 out of 5 points

The ideal of domesticity
Selected Answer:
held that women’s sphere was the home and family.
Answers:
was opposed by the revivalists.

held that women’s sphere was the home and family.
held that the government should ignore foreign policy and focus on internal development.

stressed the father’s spiritual leadership in the home.

• Question 19
5 out of 5 points

What reform movement eventually led to the collapse of the Jacksonian party system in the 1850s?
Selected Answer:
temperance
Answers: evangelicalism

abolitionism

temperance

suffrage

• Question 20
5 out of 5 points

What reform effort suffered a temporary political defeat through the gag rule?
Selected Answer:
the abolitionist drive to petition Congress against slavery
Answers:
the anti-drinking crusade

the abolitionist drive to petition Congress against slavery

the campaign for women’s suffrage

the movement to improve prison conditions

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