Chapter 11 APUSH

Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?

• National government

  initiatives

• The Second Great Awakening

• State government initiatives

• Industrialization

The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?

• Individualism

• The cult of domesticity

• Utopianism

• Transcendentalism

What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual’s mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization?

• Hard physical labor

• Intensive, solitary study

• Spending time alone in

  nature

• Sexual intimacy

The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?

• Promoting the spread of

  knowledge through public lectures

• Advocating social

  nonconformity and civil disobedience

• Ending the era of utopian

  communal experiments

• Encouraging mob violence like the violence that killed Joseph Smith

Which of the following statements about Emerson is correct?

• He was a Unitarian minister

  who eventually rejected organized religion.

• His view of individualism

  promoted hard work and indulgent consumption.

• He resigned his pulpit due

  to his fear of public speaking.

• Emerson’s influence was

  briefly intense, but it did not stand the test of time.

Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer”?

• Stubbornness

• Individuality

• Musicality

• Expressiveness

Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Susan B. Anthony

• Angelina Grimké

• Margaret Fuller

Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?

• Brook Farm’s residents

  pioneered the use of advanced farming techniques.

• They practiced

  nineteenth-century versions of free love and communism.

• They wanted to combine

  farming with study and a lively intellectual life.

• Brook Farm’s residents

  consisted mostly of families and single women.

The Shakers’ name came from which of the following?

• The name of their founder

• Their particular form of

  worship

• The town in which they

  originated

• Their efforts to transform

  society

Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

• They believed men were

  spiritually weaker than women.

• They excluded African

  Americans in order to maintain racial purity.

• Men greatly outnumbered

  women in Shaker communities.

• They allowed both women and

  men to govern their communities.