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The famous book in which Alexis de Tocqueville analyzed American society was A) The American Commonwealth. B) Democracy in America. C) Life on the Mississippi. D) Hard Times.
E) Domestic Life of the Americans.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 2. During the 1830s and 1840s the economic differences between the rich and the poor A) constituted a wide and growing gap, especially in the larger eastern cities. B) remained constant with only a small gap between the two groups. C) shrank dramatically due to the numerous economic opportunities of the growing economy. D) remained constant with a large gap between the two groups.
E) was unchanged from the Revolutionary era.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 3. By the 1830s, non-agricultural work increasingly took place A) outside the home. B) on the farm. C) in the family household. D) in maritime trades.
E) in large factories.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 4. What was the effect of the growth of the factory system and of cities on middle- class families? A) Fathers' power increased because they now worked at home. B) Children became more valuable as future economic assets. C) Mothers' power increased because they now worked at home. D) More families were able to place their children as apprentices.
E) Fathers' power decreased because they were now absent from home so much.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
"He leaves the domestic scenes; he plunges into the turmoil and bustle of an active, selfish world.
. .Her attributes are rather of a passive than active character.. .Women we behold dependent and weak.. ." The above was a description of the A) separate spheres. B) benevolent hierarchy of skills. C) discovery of the asylum. D) benevolent empire.
E) deputy husband role.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 6. Middle-class families in the 1830s had a(n) A) declining birth rate. B) decreasing divorce rate. C) stable birthrate. D) increasing divorce rate.
E) increasing birth rate.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 7. Among middle-class families, children came to be seen increasingly as A) seething cauldrons of original sin. B) innocent and morally superior. C) the best form of old age insurance. D) perversely willful.
E) future workers.
Points Earned: 0.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 8. The most effective preacher of the Second Great Awakening was A) Charles Grandison Finney. B) William Ellery Channing. C) Jonathan Edwards. D) Johann Pestalozzi.
E) George Whitfield.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 13. The Illinois town founded by Mormon leader Joseph Smith as a semi-independent state within the federal Union was A) Mount Holyoke. B) Amana. C) Nauvoo. D) Salt Lake City.
E) Rockdale.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 14. The communitarian group which attempted to change society the least were the A) Oneida Community. B) Owenites. C) Shakers. D) Mormons.
E) Fourierists.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 15. Individual reformers who tried to care for the physically and mentally disabled were A) usually more effective than the more colorful communitarian reformers. B) too unscientific to achieve anything. C) convinced that original sin was the basic cause of such handicaps. D) unable to make substantial progress because of the enormous scale of the problems to be corrected.
E) usually less effective than the more pragmatic and less flamboyant communitarians.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 16. The pioneer in developing methods for educating deaf people who opened a school for deaf students in 1817 was A) Thomas Gallaudet. B) Lyman Beecher. C) Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe.
D) Benjamin Lundy.
E) Dorothea Dix.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 17. One of the most striking aspects of the various practical reform movements of the early nineteenth century was their A) total dependence on federal funding. B) emphasis on faith-healing. C) unwillingness to try new approaches to old problems. D) emphasis on creating special facilities for dealing with social problems.
E) hostility toward science.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 18. The Auburn System was a pioneering experiment in A) insane asylums. B) education for the blind. C) prison reform. D) communal living.
E) education for the deaf.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 19. "Danvers. November. Visited the almshouse. There are fifty-six to sixty inmates, one idiotic, three insane.. .Found the mistress and was conducted to the forlorn maniac, a young woman.. .There she stood, clinging to or beating upon the bars of her caged apartment.. .with naked arms and disheveled hair,.. .unwashed.. .with fragments of unclean garments.. .Irritation of body, produced by utter filth and exposure, incited her to the horrid process of tearing off her skin by inches." The author of the above was A) Samuel Gridley Howe. B) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. C) Angelina Grimke. D) Clara Barton.
E) Dorothea Dix.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E
Correct Answer(s): B 24. According to your text, "no reform movement" of the early nineteenth century was "more significant" and "more ambiguous" than A) temperance. B) prison reform. C) abolitionism. D) women's rights.
E) religious communitarians.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 25. William Lloyd Garrison's views on slavery might best be described as A) coldly logical. B) designed to appeal to southern moderates. C) uncompromising. D) reflecting the northern viewpoint.
E) moderate.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 26. During the 1830s and 1840s most white Americans thought William Lloyd Garrison's views were A) supported by scientific research. B) inspired by the writings of Karl Marx. C) unconvincing and confrontational. D) consistent with the teachings of their churches.
E) moderate and levelheaded.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 27. The most influential black abolitionist was A) Prudence Crandall. B) Theodore Dwight Weld. C) Elijah Lovejoy. D) Sojourner Truth.
E) Frederick Douglass.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 28. In his autobiography and speeches, Frederick Douglass insisted that A) emancipation should be gradual. B) returning to Africa was the only hope for American blacks. C) southern Christian slaveholders were the main allies of abolitionism. D) full social, political, and economic equality for blacks was required.
E) violent revolts were necessary for slaves to obtain their freedom.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): D 29. An important factor in encouraging the growth of the women's rights movement was the A) female abolitionists' recognition that, like the slaves, they were born into the caste system which destined them for menial roles in society. B) strong encouragement from men from all walks of life and of all political persuasions. C) model of the successful women's rights movement in England which had already succeeded in winning the vote for women. D) increasing number of professional opportunities for college educated women.
E) female abolitionists' recognition that the discriminaion they faced was unlike the
oppression slaves experienced.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 30. One of the few advocates of women's rights who did not begin her career in the abolitionist movement and who made a frontal assault on all forms of sexual discrimination in Women in the Nineteenth Century was A) Lucretia Mott. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Sarah Grimke. D) Catherine Beecher.
E) Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 31. By the 1850s the common school movement had succeeded in establishing
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.. .The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." The author of the above was A) Margaret Fuller. B) Dorothea Dix. C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. D) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
E) Catherine M. Sedgwick.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 36. Susan B. Anthony played a prominent role in the women's rights movement because she was the first to A) give large sums of money. B) see the need for thorough organization. C) apply the insights of Karl Marx to the oppression of women. D) write a regular newspaper column on women's rights.
E) advocate working with the abolitionists.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 37. The greatest expression of Romanticism in the United States was through A) Puritanism. B) Unitarianism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Pragmatism.
E) Naturalism.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): C 38. Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau A) worked actively in abolitionist organizations. B) sought truth through scientific research. C) lived many years in Europe because America was hostile to writers. D) engaged in civil disobedience to protest the Mexican War.
E) objected to many of society's restrictions on the individual.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 39. The American transcendentalist who defended his refusal to pay taxes to support the Mexican War in his essay "Civil Disobedience" was A) William Ellery Channing. B) Herman Melville. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
E) Henry David Thoreau.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 40. "It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State.. .I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State... ." The author of this statement was A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Francis Wayland. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) George Catlin.
E) Herman Melville.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 41. The American writer whose works are filled with examples of wild imagination and fascination with mystery, fright, and the occult was A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) John Greenleaf Whittier. D) Walt Whitman.
E) Henry David Thoreau.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 42. One of Hawthorne"e;s greatest works , The Scarlet Letter, is a (an)
According to your text, the works of Walt Whitman were A) the most authentically American of any writer of the period. B) totally rejected by the reading public during his lifetime. C) merely an aping of European romantic writers. D) quickly accepted by readers and reviewers.
E) usually rather flowery in language, but disciplined.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): A 47. Describing the dissemination of culture, the text observes that northern society was permeated by A) widespread indifference to standards of taste and high culture. B) lower-class attempts to unionize factory workers. C) upper-class desire to bring European culture to America. D) the first American sexual revolution.
E) middle-class concern for being cultivated and refined.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): E 48. The religious pamphlets and books distributed by the American Tract Society A) were a tremendous publishing failure. B) played down denominational differences in favor of a generalized evangelical Christianity. C) succeeded in converting many readers to Catholicism. D) were directed primarily at converting the various Native American tribes.
E) stressed denominational differences because of the bitter disputes among various
churches.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 49. The mutual improvement societies which conducted discussions, sponsored libraries, lobbied for better schools and presented lectures on a variety of topics were called A) forums. B) lyceums. C) art-unions. D) asylums.
E) mechanics' libraries.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B 50. The most basic goal of the common school movement was A) sexual integration of public schools. B) education for democracy. C) racial integration of public schools. D) private financing of education.
E) cultivation of refined tastes.
Points Earned: 1.0/1. Correct Answer(s): B
