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

Chapter 12: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

True or False Quiz

1
American intellectuals were pleased with the high regard in which Europeans held their culture.
A)True
B)False
2
Thoreau believed that a government that required an individual to violate his or her own morality had no legitimate authority.
A)True
B)False
3
Because transcendentalism was at heart an individualistic philosophy, its followers did not take part in communal living experiments.
A)True
B)False
4
The philosophy of reform in America drew heavily from Protestant evangelism.
A)True
B)False
5
At the beginning of the Civil War, the United States had one of the highest literacy rates in the world.
A)True
B)False
6
The idea of asylum for social deviants was not simply an effort to cure the abuses of the old system, but also an attempt to reform and rehabilitate the inmates.
A)True
B)False
7
Early feminists made their point by drawing a parallel between the plight of women and the plight of slaves.
A)True
B)False
8
The American Colonization Society failed because it challenged both property rights and southern sensibilities.
A)True
B)False
9
The man who transformed the antislavery movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A)True
B)False
10
Although there was opposition to abolitionism in the North, it was generally peaceful.
A)True
B)False
11
Radical abolitionists attacked slavery and the Constitution that seemed to sanction it.
A)True
B)False
12
Abolitionists were also almost exclusively pacifists, and therefore did not advocate violence to free the slaves.
A)True
B)False
13
Antislavery and abolition were different words for the same thing.
A)True
B)False
14
Although it sold well, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin had little impact on American antislavery attitudes.
A)True
B)False
15
Only a relatively small number of people before the Civil War ever accepted the abolitionist position that slavery must be entirely eliminated in a single stroke.
A)True
B)False
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