(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Build, there…

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836The excerpt above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?

(04.06, 04.07 HC)Question refers to excerpts below.”Still, t…

(04.06, 04.07 HC)Question refers to excerpts below.”Still, though a slaveholder, I freely acknowledge my obligation as a man; and I am bound to treat humanely the fellow creatures whom God has entrusted to my charge…It is certainly in the interest of all, and I am convinced it is the desire of every one of us, to treat our slaves with proper kindness.”Source: Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845″Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of Liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and Bible, which are disregarded, and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce…slavery ‘the great sin and shame of America’!”Source: Fredrick Douglass, from speech titled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” 1852Which of the following groups would be likely to support the point of view of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”But if slave…

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”But if slaves were allowed to redeem themselves progressively, by purchasing one day of the week after another, as they can in the Spanish colonies, habits of industry would be gradually formed, and enterprise would be stimulated, by their successful efforts to acquire a little property. And if they afterward worked better as free laborers than they now do as slaves, it would surely benefit their masters as well as themselves…But the slave holders try to stop all the efforts of benevolence, by vociferous complaints about infringing upon their property; and justice is so subordinate to self-interest, that the unrighteous claim is silently allowed, and even openly supported, by those who ought to blush for themselves, as Christians and as republicans.”Source: Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called African, 1833The arguments in this excerpt best represent the ideas of

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Build, there…

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836The excerpt above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?

(04.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”It is to be…

(04.01 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers—who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.”Source: Andrew Jackson, from Veto of the Bank Bill, 1832Jackson’s assertion in his veto message was that the Second Bank of the United States was