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The chapter introduction tells the story of Lyman Beecher and his offspring to make the point that |
| | A) | nineteenth-century preachers often stressed the wickedness of American society. |
| | B) | while the Beecher family stood for older values and tried to halt the rapid changes in American society, other Americans sought to harness change to bring about a more perfect society. |
| | C) | zealous evangelical Protestants sought to hasten the coming of Christ's kingdom on earth through diverse strategies for reforming society. |
| | D) | the Transcendentalist Beecher represented the more secular, romantic side of a quest for an improved society that characterized America in the 1820s and 1830s. |
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Revivalism responded to a desire |
| | A) | for social order and control in the new, fast-changing, competitive market economy. |
| | B) | for the higher pay and greater social mobility typical of the new frontier entrepreneurs. |
| | C) | for the reaffirmation of fundamental Calvinist beliefs like predestination. |
| | D) | for traditional Unitarian beliefs, like the promise of salvation for those who willed it. |
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Evangelical religion proved strongest |
| | A) | in eastern cities. |
| | B) | on southern plantations. |
| | C) | in isolated towns on the edge of the frontier. |
| | D) | in areas just entering the market economy. |
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The ideal of domesticity |
| | A) | held that women's sphere was the home and family. |
| | B) | was opposed by revivalists like Charles Grandison Finney. |
| | C) | held that the government should ignore foreign policy and focus on internal development. |
| | D) | stressed the father's spiritual leadership in the home. |
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With respect to the middle-class family after 1820, all of the following explain the decline in family size in general, and in the birth rate in particular, EXCEPT |
| | A) | parents' desire to improve the standard of living for themselves and their children. |
| | B) | the use of birth control methods. |
| | C) | that middle-class youth often delayed marriage until young men could support their wives. |
| | D) | a view of family, shared with farmers, that children were economic assets. |
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Romanticism |
| | A) | came from Europe as part of the Enlightenment. |
| | B) | was incompatible with the doctrines of the revivals. |
| | C) | considered emotion as the source of truth. |
| | D) | was a uniquely American cultural movement. |
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Each of these authors was influenced by the Romantics' fascination with nature, EXCEPT |
| | A) | Henry David Thoreau. |
| | B) | Washington Irving. |
| | C) | Herman Melville. |
| | D) | Walt Whitman. |
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The Shaker movement |
| | A) | attempted to replace the competitive ethos of American society with a purer spiritual unity and group cooperation. |
| | B) | gave women very little authority in the life of the community. |
| | C) | supported the concept of free love. |
| | D) | lasted for only a few years. |
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The experiences of Brook Farm and New Harmony proved that the United States was not conducive to socialist experiments because |
| | A) | wages were too high. |
| | B) | land was too plentiful. |
| | C) | the spirit of individualism was too strong. |
| | D) | All these answers are correct. |
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Abolitionism was strongest |
| | A) | in northern cities. |
| | B) | in New England and areas settled by New Englanders. |
| | C) | among businessmen. |
| | D) | among the elderly. |
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Seneca Falls, New York, was the site of |
| | A) | John Humphrey Noyes's utopian community. |
| | B) | Charles Grandison Finney's greatest revival. |
| | C) | the first major women's rights convention. |
| | D) | Prudence Crandall's school for black girls. |
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The abolitionist movement split in 1840 |
| | A) | because of Garrison's support for black rights. |
| | B) | because of Weld's failure to win over Beecher and Finney. |
| | C) | over the issue of women's rights. |
| | D) | over the issue of mixing religion and politics. |
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What reform movement won temporary political success through the Maine Law? |
| | A) | the anti-drinking crusade |
| | B) | the movement for public high schools |
| | C) | the campaign for women's suffrage |
| | D) | Robert Owen's factory reforms at New Harmony, Indiana |
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Which reform movement practiced the doctrine of "complex marriage"? |
| | A) | the Shakers |
| | B) | abolitionism |
| | C) | the Oneida Community |
| | D) | the asylum movement |
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Who most profoundly raised the issue of the destructive potential of the values of Romanticism? |
| | A) | Herman Melville |
| | B) | Lyman Beecher |
| | C) | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| | D) | William Lloyd Garrison |
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