In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of ...

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Question 1

Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the
 
  A. Methodists.
 
  B. Quakers.
 
  C. Baptists.
 
  D. Presbyterians.
 
  E. Unitarians.

Question 2

The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to
 
  A. integrate Indians with white society.
 
  B. create sovereign nations within U.S. territory so that Indians could negotiate with other nations.
 
  C. allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.
 
  D. None of these answers is correct.
 
  E. allow Indians to develop to a point where they would not need to assimilate into white society.

Question 3

In 1840, one catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention that dealt with
 
  A. temperance.
 
  B. the abolition of slavery.
 
  C. woman suffrage.
 
  D. prostitution.
 
  E. prison reform.

Question 4

Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States
 
  A. focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation.
 
  B. included the practice of solitary confinement.
 
  C. led to widespread calls to end capital punishment.
 
  D. began largely in the West and spread to the East.
 
  E. decried the racial bias of the judicial system.

Question 5

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights
 
  A. shied away from demanding female suffrage, as this was too radical at the time.
 
  B. issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
 
  C. asserted that women should have a place in society distinctly different from that of men.
 
  D. refused to allow men to attend.
 
  E. called on the government to treat both genders and all races with equality.

Question 6

In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by
 
  A. Ignaz Semmelweis.
 
  B. James Warren.
 
  C. William Morton.
 
  D. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
 
  E. Edward Jenner.

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Answer 1

B

Answer 2

C

Answer 3

B

Answer 4

B

Answer 5

B

Answer 6

D

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