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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT VCHS APUSH 14-15
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-Guarantee passing score -93 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Those seeking to reform women's style of dress in the 1840s claimed all of the following except
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corsets constricted women's vital organs Question 2: By 1850 all of the following were true about developments in organized religion in America except
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organized religion had generally grown more theologically conservative than during the colonial eras
Question 3: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The American Scholar"
Question 4: The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860
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resulted in unsanitary conditions in many communities
Question 5: Native-born Protestant Americans distrusted and resented the Irish immigrants for all except
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the Irish immigrants were very slow to learn American English and mostly spoke Gaelic in their urban neighborhoods
Question 6: These things influenced transcendental thought except
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German philosophers love of nature individualism Question 7: All of the following contributed to the appeal of the Second Great Awakening to women except
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it encouraged women to enter into professions normally reserved for men in order to make these professional more ethical and morally upright
Question 8: Identify the following statements that are true
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Land was cheap in America; this helped fuel the immigration flux in the 1840s and 1850s; The United States had a difficult time producing goods of high quality and cheap cost to compete with mass-produced European products from colonial times until the 18 Question 9: A great deal of the cotton produced in the American South in the early nineteenth century was
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sold to New England textile mills Question 10: One American writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was
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Edgar Allan Poe
Question 11: When German immigrants came to the United States they
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prospered with astonishing ease
Question 12: German immigrants to the United States
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came to escape economic hardships and autocratic government
Question 13: Tax-supported public education between 1825 and 1850 was
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deemed essential for social stability and democracy Question 14: Which of the following events prompted the Mormons to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo Illinois and set out West to the valley of the Great Salt Lake?
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Continuing vicious hostility by non-Mormon Americans including the murder of Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother
Question 15: In the first half of the nineteenth century
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tax-supported schools were
Question 16: The Second Great Awakening tended to
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promote religious diversity Question 17: New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of
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prison and asylum reform Question 18: As one the greatest of the revivalist preachers Charles Grandison Finney advocated
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All of these choices are correct
Question 19: Samuel Morse
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steamboat
Question 20: The Mormon religion originated in
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the Burned-Over District of New York Question 21: Ecological imperialism as exemplified during the American historical period of 1790-1860 can best be described as
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the wanton heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade
Question 22: Robert Fulton
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mower-reaper Question 23: "Civil Disobedience" an essay that later influenced both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King
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Jr was written by the transcendentalist
Question 24: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Scarlet Letter"
Question 25: The Poet Laureate of Democracy
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whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America was
Question 26: Unitarians held the following beliefs except
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they believed in a stern and Puritan type of God
Question 27: The Second Great Awakening tended to
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widen the lines between classes and regions