Chapter 10

Quiz for Chapter Ten Thinking Like a Historian: Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America

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Question 1

The evidence available in sources 1 and 2 suggests that the sexual manners among rural folk and genteel urbanites in America in the 1830s and 1840s were characterized byA. modesty and restraint.
B. explicit desire and flirtation.
C. liberal experimentation.
D. a strong double standard.

Question 2

What do sources 3 and 4 suggest about why the cultural practices of the elite were beginning to change in the mid-nineteenth century?A. Elite youth had become increasingly bored with the staid culture of their parents.
B. Liberal attitudes associated with rural communalism began to influence elite groups.
C. Urban elites gained new exposure to the activities of other ethnic and social communities.
D. Transcendentalism convinced elites to reject traditional values and embrace self-expression.

Question 3

Which of the following factors was most likely responsible for the changes in American dancing styles in the mid-nineteenth century?A. Immigration
B. Individualism
C. Nativism
D. Evangelism

Question 4

Historians would attribute the emerging popularity of juba dancing in mid-nineteenth century America to which of the following phenomena?A. Communalism
B. The abolitionist movement
C. The new urban culture
D. Nativism

Question 5

Which of the following groups would have been most likely to object to the new forms of dancing that emerged in the United States in the 1840s?A. European immigrants
B. Free blacks
C. Socialists
D. Preachers