American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 12: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century reflected which of the following impulses?
A)an optimistic faith in human nature
B)a rational view of man and his ability
C)a desire for control and order
D)a desire to end slavery
E)both an optimistic faith in human nature, and a desire for control and order
2
The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century
A)painted scenes of carefully cultivated landscapes.
B)favored portraits of Revolutionary War heroes.
C)considered untamed nature the best source of spiritual inspiration.
D)had a different philosophy from Emerson and Thoreau.
E)often painted portraits of each other.
3
The first great American novelist was
A)Walt Whitman.
B)James Fenimore Cooper.
C)Herman Melville.
D)Ralph Waldo Emerson.
E)Edgar Allan Poe.
4
Transcendentalists believed that
A)"understanding" was more important than "reason."
B)man should repress instinct and strive for externally imposed learning.
C)each individual should strive to "transcend" the limits of intellect and allow emotions to create an "original relation to the universe."
D)individuals should avoid anything that would bring one too close to the natural world.
E)"reason" was more important than "understanding."
5
In his essay "Resistance to Civil Government," Henry David Thoreau claimed an individual should
A)not pay poll taxes.
B)refuse to obey unjust laws.
C)live in isolation and as simply as possible.
D)reject the artificial constraints of government.
E)embrace an excessive interest in material comforts.
6
American utopians
A)attracted thousands of followers during the antebellum period.
B)had a consistent supporter in Nathaniel Hawthorne.
C)operated primarily in the South.
D)struggled to meet both individual needs and the demands of the communal society.
E)never developed a large following.
7
The Oneida Community
A)advocated "free love."
B)called for celibacy and attracted members for conversion.
C)believed it liberated women from the demands of male "lust" and from traditional bonds of family.
D)was widely accepted and had almost no critics.
E)sought to expand parental control over children.
8
Like other experiments in social organization of this era, Mormonism reflected
A)a strong antislavery bias.
B)a celebration of individual liberty.
C)a desire to improve the status of women.
D)a strong desire to isolate believers from general society.
E)a belief in human perfectibility.
9
Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to which of the following reforms?
A)temperance
B)education and rehabilitation
C)women's rights
D)peace
E)abolitionism
10
Each of the following was an example of new ideas about health in this era EXCEPT
A)phrenology.
B)water cures.
C)reforms promulgated by city health boards to cure epidemics.
D)dietary theories.
E)None of these answers is correct.
11
The emphasis on educational reform was consistent with the spirit of the age because it
A)focused on teaching children the values of order and discipline.
B)stressed educational equality.
C)focused on external learning.
D)stressed the importance of community.
E)emphasized the development of individual talent.
12
The creation of asylums
A)was only for the mentally ill.
B)was only for criminals.
C)attempted to rehabilitate "unfit" people into useful citizens.
D)was simply an attempt to curb the abuses of the old methods of dealing with the poor and the ill.
E)was only for the mentally ill and criminals.
13
As women in various reform movements confronted the problems they faced in a male- dominated society, they responded by
A)withdrawing from the movements.
B)accepting the notion that men and women were assigned separate "spheres" in society.
C)focusing their attention on religious matters.
D)setting in motion the first important feminist movement.
E)establishing the W.C.T.U.
14
Which of the following groups was most involved in the feminist movement?
A)Baptists
B)Episcopalians
C)Mormons
D)Shakers
E)Quakers
15
Educational reformers intended public schools to perform all of the following roles EXCEPT
A)to extend and protect democracy.
B)to raise questions and criticisms of authority.
C)to expand individual opportunities.
D)to inculcate values of thrift, order, discipline, and punctuality.
E)to establish social order.
16
After 1830, which of the following reform movements began to overshadow the others?
A)antislavery
B)women's rights
C)temperance
D)education
E)rehabilitation
17
The most noted black abolitionist of the day was
A)Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B)William Lloyd Garrison.
C)Frederick Douglass.
D)Joseph Smith.
E)Benjamin Lundy.
18
Opponents of abolitionism in the North believed
A)abolitionists were dangerous radicals.
B)the movement would lead to a war between the North and South.
C)the movement would lead to a great influx of free blacks into the North.
D)All these answers are correct.
E)None of these answers is correct.
19
Immediate abolition gradually accomplished was the slogan of
A)moderate antislavery forces.
B)Garrison and his followers.
C)Southern antislavery planters.
D)black abolitionists.
E)the free soldiers.
20
Personal liberty laws
A)allowed masters to claim slaves who ran away to the North.
B)freed slaves who escaped to states in the Old Northwest.
C)forbade state officials to assist in the capture and return of runaways.
D)outlawed the interstate slave trade.
E)allowed slaves to purchase their freedom.
21
The movement that advocated keeping slavery out of the territories was known as the
A)personal liberty movement.
B)free-soil movement.
C)John Brown Brigade.
D)Garrison solution.
E)the Missouri Compromise.
22
Throughout the North, black Americans
A)enjoyed full access to education and most career opportunities.
B)voted and held government jobs proportionate to their numbers.
C)defended their freedom and responded eagerly to the cause of abolitionism.
D)earned a decent standard of living.
E)were more violent in their abolitionist rhetoric than Garrison.
23
The creation of "asylums" for social deviants was an effort to:
A)punish the inmates.
B)get the deviants out of society.
C)reform and rehabilitate the inmates.
D)cut down the cost of crime and punishment.
E)All these answers are correct.
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