Question 1

In what ways did American literature in the early nineteenth century reflect the New Democracy of the Jacksonian age?

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Question 2

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.Why?

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Question 3

How did each of the following encourage social reform: Second Great Awakening,industrialization,and nostalgia for the past?

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Question 4

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

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Question 5

In the reform movements of the first half of the 1800s,historians have regarded some reformers in the abolitionist movement not so much as heroes,but as people who sought social control.What is your opinion?

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Question 6

Explain why the Mormons became a target for religious intolerance in America.

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Question 7

What do you consider the single most worthwhile reform movement of the early nineteenth century? Why?

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Question 8

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 9

What role did women play in the intellectual and literary movements of the early 1800s?

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Question 10

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 11

What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want?

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Question 12

Why were women prominent in the reform crusades of the early nineteenth century? What contribution did they make to social reform?

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Question 13

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 14

Why did the communitarian movement flourish in the early nineteenth century? What were communitarians trying to prove? Why did most fail?

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