1. Chapter 11: Religion and Reform, 1820—1860
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2. 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality because he wanted them to
A. experience an evangelical Christian conversion experience.
B. join moral reform movements for temperance, maintain the Sabbath, and support the abolition of slavery.
C. celebrate individualism and energize the American spirit.
D. seek individual wealth through hard work.

3. 2. Walt Whitman went beyond Emerson’s teaching in his belief that
A. individuals must be involved in reform.
B. the individual was divine.
C. individualism was ultimately dangerous.
D. the individual must obey a higher law.

4. 3. Margaret Fuller’s greatest contribution to transcendental philosophy was her
A. belief that men and women were equally capable of transcendence.
B. editing of the transcendentalist journal, the Dial.
C. transcendentalist treatise, Leaves of Grass.
D. work on the Seneca Falls Declaration.

5. 4. Perfectionists believed that freedom from sin was possible
A. if people isolated themselves from society.
B. if people practiced celibacy.
C. because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
D. for communities that practiced group ownership of property.

6. 5. Urban popular culture between 1820 and 1860 was based on
A. upper-class professional attempts to extend elite culture to the white working class.
B. the thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure.
C. Native American and Asian American interactions in cities.
D. the immigration of thousands of British people to the United States.

7. A. opera. B. minstrel shows. C. silent films. D. horseracing.
6. The most important form of urban entertainment in the United States between 1820 and 1860 was
A. opera.
B. minstrel shows.
C. silent films.
D. horseracing.

8. 7. The most successful tactic of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society in affecting public opinion was to
A. redouble the efforts of the abolitionist lecture circuit.
B. pressure Congress through petitions.
C. mail abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country.
D. call for violent slave revolts.

9. 8. The most common response of white Americans to the abolition movement was
A. their signing of petitions in support of abolition.
B. their refusing to pay taxes out of civil disobedience in order to attain the emancipation of slaves.
C. violence against abolitionists.
D. opposition to the movement.

10. 9. Moral reform was primarily a women’s movement to
A. end prostitution.
B. restrict the consumption of alcohol.
C. enforce Sabbath rules.
D. work for antislavery.

11. 10. Abolitionism drew upon which of the following movements?
Indian removal
nativism
anti-child labor
D. the Second Great Awakening

12. Answer is C Answer is B Answer is A Answer is D
Answer Key for Chapter 11
Answer is C
Answer is B
Answer is A
Answer is D