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By 1860, public schools in the United States had failed to produce significant improvement in education.

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B) False

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Herman Melville was less exuberant in his celebration of America than was Walt Whitman.

A) True
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Why did a feminist movement come into being in the United States during the 1840s?

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The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.

A) True
B) False

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The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York convention on women's rights


A) issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
B) asserted that women should have a place in society distinctly different from men.
C) refused to allow men to attend.
D) called on the government to treat both genders and all races with equality.
E) shied away from demanding female suffrage as too radical.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The Romantic movement originated in American intellectual circles.

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B) False

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In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was made by


A) Edward Jenner.
B) William Morton.
C) Oliver Wendell Holmes.
D) James Warren.
E) Ignaz Semmelweis.

F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

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In the North, abolitionists were a small, dissenting minority of the total population.

A) True
B) False

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William Lloyd Garrison was a harsh critic of the United States government.

A) True
B) False

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Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.

A) True
B) False

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Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of


A) America's westward expansion.
B) the American free-enterprise system.
C) religious spiritualism in America.
D) racism in America.
E) slavery on the democratic mind.

F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

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What were the social factors which motivated the many reform movements in the North before the Civil War?

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Describe the essential tenets of the transcendentalist philosophy.

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The pre-Civil War reformer most concerned about expanding public education was ________________ from the state of ___________________.

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The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" included a demand that women have the right to vote.

A) True
B) False

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How do the ideas of nineteenth-century transcendentalism link to twentieth-century ecology?

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By the 1850s, the principle of tax-supported elementary schools had been established in every state.

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B) False

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The term "penitentiary" comes from the word _________________.

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The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote


A) capitalism.
B) democracy.
C) racial equality.
D) economic equality.
E) Christianity.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Joseph Smith and Elijah Lovejoy were both __________________.

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