Question 1

What role did women play in the intellectual and literary movements of the early-mid 1800s? Assess the scope of influence specific literary women and female intellectuals had on these movements during the early-mid 1800s.

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Question 2

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-American transcendentalist writers included

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American transcendentalist writers were writers who focused primarily on individuality, nature, and divinity. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were the two most prominent transcendentalist writers who focused on these themes in their works. Margaret Fuller was another writer who was closely associated with the transcendentalist movement and also wrote on similar themes. James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer and a member of the Romantic movement, but he did not write on transcendentalist themes. Angelina Grimke was an abolitionist and women's rights activist, but she was not a transcendentalist writer.

Question 3

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included

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Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony were all leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century. Jane Addams was a leader in the social reform movement and Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and abolitionist, but they were not specifically leaders in the women's rights movement.

Question 4

Why did the utopian communitarian movement flourish in the early nineteenth century? What were the utopian communitarians trying to prove? Why did most fail? What long-term impact, if any, did any of these utopian communities have on the political, economic, or social development of America?

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Question 5

The authors claim that in early-nineteenth-century America, public schools "existed chiefly to educate the children of the poor." Why were both upper- and lower-class Americans willing to support public education with their tax dollars?

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Question 6

How did each of the following encourage early-mid-nineteenth century social reforms: Second Great Awakening, industrialization, and nostalgia for the past? What specific social reforms grew out of the Second Great Awakening, industrialization, and nostalgia for the past? What were the political, economic, social, and religious limitations that restricted these social reforms from going further than they did during this era?

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Question 7

Explain why the Mormons became a target for religious intolerance in America. Why did the Mormons continually run afoul of Congress and the federal government even after they moved to Utah to escape the religious intolerance they encountered in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois? What factors accounted for their economic and social success when they moved to the Utah territory after 1844?

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Question 8

How do the Knickerbocker group, Hudson River school, and transcendentalists all reflect the nationalism of early-nineteenth-century America? What particularly American values did each reflect?

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Question 9

What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want in the early-mid-nineteenth century? How would you assess the scope and substance of their goals and measure their level of success?

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Question 10

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-In early-nineteenth-century America, men usually regarded women as

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Question 11

Write your definition of paternalism. Then use this definition to argue that early-nineteenth-century American reform efforts were in part paternalistic endeavors by middle-class Americans to "do something for" the less fortunate.

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Question 12

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-The Knickerbocker group of American writers included

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The Knickerbocker group of American writers included Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant. Thoreau, Alcott, and Emerson were associated with the Transcendentalist movement.

Question 13

Why were women prominent in the reform crusades of the early nineteenth century? What contributions did they make to social reform in different areas of economic, family, and political life? Evaluate the level of their success in these women's social reform endeavors.

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Question 14

In what ways did American literature in the early nineteenth century reflect the New Democracy of the Jacksonian age? In what ways was the literary flowering of transcendentalism a continuation or a break from the literary themes of the Jacksonian age? Use specific literary examples and reference particular American writers of the early-mid-nineteenth century to support your arguments.

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Question 15

What do you consider the single most worthwhile and consequential social reform movement of the early-mid-nineteenth century? Which social reform movement of the early-mid-nineteenth century do you consider the least worthwhile and influential in advancing social progress in America? Defend your arguments in both cases with specific examples.

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Question 16

The text's authors contend that early-nineteenth-century Americans "were more interested in practical gadgets than in pure science," and it is widely believed that Americans have always had a love affair with technology. What political, economic, and social factors would account for this asserted long-standing American love affair with technology?

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Question 17

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-Transcendentalists were dedicated to

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Question 18

The text's authors label Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville "literary individualists and dissenters." Against what were they dissenting? Why?

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Question 19

In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s, historians have regarded some reformers in the abolitionist, temperance, mandatory public education, and asylum social reform movements not so much as heroes, but as people who sought social control. What is your opinion of this view on these social reformers held by some historians of the era?

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Quiz 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

What role did women play in the intellectual and literary movements of the early-mid 1800s? Assess the scope of influence specific literary women and female intellectuals had on these movements during the early-mid 1800s.

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -American transcendentalist writers included

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included

Why did the utopian communitarian movement flourish in the early nineteenth century? What were the utopian communitarians trying to prove? Why did most fail? What long-term impact, if any, did any of these utopian communities have on the political, economic, or social development of America?

The authors claim that in early-nineteenth-century America, public schools "existed chiefly to educate the children of the poor." Why were both upper- and lower-class Americans willing to support public education with their tax dollars?

How do the Knickerbocker group, Hudson River school, and transcendentalists all reflect the nationalism of early-nineteenth-century America? What particularly American values did each reflect?

What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want in the early-mid-nineteenth century? How would you assess the scope and substance of their goals and measure their level of success?

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -In early-nineteenth-century America, men usually regarded women as

Write your definition of paternalism. Then use this definition to argue that early-nineteenth-century American reform efforts were in part paternalistic endeavors by middle-class Americans to "do something for" the less fortunate.

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The Knickerbocker group of American writers included

Why were women prominent in the reform crusades of the early nineteenth century? What contributions did they make to social reform in different areas of economic, family, and political life? Evaluate the level of their success in these women's social reform endeavors.

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Transcendentalists were dedicated to

The text's authors label Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville "literary individualists and dissenters." Against what were they dissenting? Why?

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -American transcendentalist writers included

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The leaders of the women's rights movement in the early nineteenth century included

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -In early-nineteenth-century America, men usually regarded women as

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -The Knickerbocker group of American writers included

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -Transcendentalists were dedicated to