APUSH | Chapter 12 An Age Of Reform, 1820-1840 – Flashcards

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A young minister converted by the evangelical preacher Charles G. Finney, _____ helped to create a mass constituency for abolitionism by training speakers and publishing pamphlets.
answer
Theodore Weld
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Abby Kelley
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demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements
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Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:
answer
countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species
question
According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?
answer
voluntary associations
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According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gladden:
answer
there was a hierarchy of races, with black forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees
question
All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCPET:
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She was the first feminist leader educated at a major college
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Although it only lasted a few years, the New Harmony community
answer
influences education reformers and women's right's advocates
question
Angelina and Sarah Grimké:
answer
critiqued the prevailing noting of separate spheres for men and women
question
At the end of their trek in the mid-1940s Mormons led by Brigham Young founded
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery
answer
Frederick Douglass
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Brook Farm
answer
was founded by New England transcendentalists
question
Burned-over districts were
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in New York and Ohio where intense revivals occurred
question
By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:
answer
encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol
question
Common Schools
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Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil Way
question
Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:
answer
construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane
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Frederick Douglass wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ____ will occupy a large space in its pages."
answer
women
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Freedom's Journal
answer
was the first black-run newspaper in the United States
question
Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:
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help eliminate racial discrimination
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How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?
answer
They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically
question
How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?
answer
The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately
question
How did the abolitionist link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?
answer
They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
question
Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premises that America
answer
was fundamentally a white society
question
Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperate movement
answer
Catholics
question
The American Tract Society was focused on
answer
religion
question
The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:
answer
Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction
question
The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:
answer
prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans
question
The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:
answer
convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties
question
The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women
answer
were the Grimké sisters
question
The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:
answer
heaven
question
The gag rule
answer
prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions
question
The North-Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:
answer
David Walker
question
The Oneida community:
answer
controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce
question
The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:
answer
dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work
question
The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:
answer
tension's between liberation and control in the era's reform movements.
question
The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:
answer
set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis
question
The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement
answer
included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper
question
The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments
answer
condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women
question
The _____ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement
answer
Liberty Party
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Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans
answer
saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property
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What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive salve Josiah Henson?
answer
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?
answer
that they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society
question
What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?
answer
the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery
question
What was a "bloomer" in the 1850s?
answer
a feminist style of dress
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Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?
answer
New Harmony: Indiana
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Which of the following was NOT a reform movement in which women played a prominent role during the early to mid-nineteenth century?
answer
the anti-Mexican-War movement
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Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?
answer
The practiced "complex marriage" and publicly recorded sexual relations
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Which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by Joseph Smith, is FALSE?
answer
The Mormons were founded in the 1840s as an offshoot of Methodism
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Who founded the Shakers?
answer
Ann Lee
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William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:
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black were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.
question
William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:
answer
The Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
answer
Suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.
question
Utopian communities
answer
Reform communities where small groups of men and women attempted to establish a more perfect order within the larger society.
question
Polygamy
answer
A Mormon practice which allows one man to have more than one wife.
question
Secular communitarian
answer
A person who plans or lives in a cooperative community
question
''perfectionism''
answer
The idea that social ills once considered incurable could in fact by eliminated.
question
Temperance movement
answer
A reform movement advocating the moderation in consumption of liquor.
question
Self-discipline
answer
Some reformers believed that self-fulfillment came through the practice of self-control.
question
Common school
answer
Tax-supported state schools open to all children.
question
Public education
answer
Universal public education was viewed as an avenue to restore equality and to equip the less fortunate for advance in the social scale.
question
American Colonization Society
answer
Organized in 1816 to encourage colonization of free blacks to Africa; West African nation of Liberia founded in 1822 to serve as a homeland for them.
question
American Anti-Slavery Society
answer
Founded in 1833 to organize efforts devoted to abolition.
question
''moral suasion''
answer
A method of reformers attempting to convert people to their cause by highlighting the moral implications of the opposing viewpoint.
question
Uncle Tom's Cabin
answer
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel popularized the abolitionist position.
question
''Am I Not a Man and a Brother?''
answer
A motto adopted by abolitionists to highlight the reality that blacks in bondage were no different than the whites in power over them.
question
''gentlemen of property and standing''
answer
Merchants with close commercial ties to the South.
question
Gag rule
answer
Rule adopted by House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844.
question
Dorothea Dix
answer
A Massachusetts schoolteacher who was the leading advocate of more humane treatment of the insane.
question
Woman suffrage
answer
A woman's right to vote, an issue raised for the first time at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
question
Women in the Nineteenth Century
answer
Published in 1845, Margaret Fuller's work that sought to apply to women the transcendalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.
question
Liberty Party
answer
Abolitionist political party that nominated James G. Birney for president in 1840 and 1844; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
question
The American Colonization Society called for:
answer
a gradual end to slavery, and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
question
Dorthea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:
answer
more humane treatment of the insane.
question
The 1836 "gag rule":
answer
prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
question
Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s?
answer
They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
question
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:
answer
the Declaration of Independence.
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Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?
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Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.
question
The founder and earliest leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1820 was:
answer
Joseph Smith
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Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?
answer
political party conventions
question
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that:
answer
social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
question
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:
answer
raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
question
Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
answer
Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
question
Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:
answer
wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.
question
Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
answer
A conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion," then violent measures would become necessary
question
The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth century United States included all of the following EXCEPT:
answer
societies to shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
question
The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about
answer
100.
question
The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of the freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
answer
abolitionism.
question
Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
answer
100,000
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At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." Complex marriage at Oneida meant:
answer
any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
question
Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
answer
tariff reform
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Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
answer
settlement houses in cities.
question
The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by:
answer
William Lloyd Garrison
question
Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.
answer
F
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As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
answer
F
question
Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
answer
F
question
More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
answer
F
question
Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.
answer
F
question
Though women could not vote in the early-nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.
answer
T
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Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
answer
F
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A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
answer
F
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"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
answer
T
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
answer
F
question
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
answer
T
question
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.
answer
T
question
The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth-century American Revolutionaries, but from nineteenth-century abolitionists.
answer
T
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William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
answer
F
question
Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).
answer
F
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Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
answer
F
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First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.
answer
F
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Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.
answer
T
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Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.
answer
T
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By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
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F
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The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.
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T
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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.
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F
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Committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.
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F
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question
A young minister converted by the evangelical preacher Charles G. Finney, _____ helped to create a mass constituency for abolitionism by training speakers and publishing pamphlets.
answer
Theodore Weld
question
Abby Kelley
answer
demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements
question
Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:
answer
countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species
question
According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?
answer
voluntary associations
question
According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gladden:
answer
there was a hierarchy of races, with black forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees
question
All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCPET:
answer
She was the first feminist leader educated at a major college
question
Although it only lasted a few years, the New Harmony community
answer
influences education reformers and women's right's advocates
question
Angelina and Sarah Grimké:
answer
critiqued the prevailing noting of separate spheres for men and women
question
At the end of their trek in the mid-1940s Mormons led by Brigham Young founded
answer
Salt Lake City, Utah
question
Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery
answer
Frederick Douglass
question
Brook Farm
answer
was founded by New England transcendentalists
question
Burned-over districts were
answer
in New York and Ohio where intense revivals occurred
question
By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:
answer
encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol
question
Common Schools
answer
Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil Way
question
Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:
answer
construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane
question
Frederick Douglass wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ____ will occupy a large space in its pages."
answer
women
question
Freedom's Journal
answer
was the first black-run newspaper in the United States
question
Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:
answer
help eliminate racial discrimination
question
How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?
answer
They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically
question
How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?
answer
The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately
question
How did the abolitionist link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?
answer
They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
question
Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premises that America
answer
was fundamentally a white society
question
Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperate movement
answer
Catholics
question
The American Tract Society was focused on
answer
religion
question
The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:
answer
Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction
question
The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:
answer
prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans
question
The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:
answer
convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties
question
The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women
answer
were the Grimké sisters
question
The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:
answer
heaven
question
The gag rule
answer
prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions
question
The North-Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:
answer
David Walker
question
The Oneida community:
answer
controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce
question
The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:
answer
dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work
question
The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:
answer
tension's between liberation and control in the era's reform movements.
question
The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:
answer
set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis
question
The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement
answer
included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper
question
The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments
answer
condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women
question
The _____ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement
answer
Liberty Party
question
Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans
answer
saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property
question
What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive salve Josiah Henson?
answer
Uncle Tom's Cabin
question
What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?
answer
that they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society
question
What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?
answer
the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery
question
What was a "bloomer" in the 1850s?
answer
a feminist style of dress
question
Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?
answer
New Harmony: Indiana
question
Which of the following was NOT a reform movement in which women played a prominent role during the early to mid-nineteenth century?
answer
the anti-Mexican-War movement
question
Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?
answer
The practiced "complex marriage" and publicly recorded sexual relations
question
Which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by Joseph Smith, is FALSE?
answer
The Mormons were founded in the 1840s as an offshoot of Methodism
question
Who founded the Shakers?
answer
Ann Lee
question
William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:
answer
black were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.
question
William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:
answer
The Liberator
question
William Lloyd Garrison
answer
Suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.
question
Utopian communities
answer
Reform communities where small groups of men and women attempted to establish a more perfect order within the larger society.
question
Polygamy
answer
A Mormon practice which allows one man to have more than one wife.
question
Secular communitarian
answer
A person who plans or lives in a cooperative community
question
''perfectionism''
answer
The idea that social ills once considered incurable could in fact by eliminated.
question
Temperance movement
answer
A reform movement advocating the moderation in consumption of liquor.
question
Self-discipline
answer
Some reformers believed that self-fulfillment came through the practice of self-control.
question
Common school
answer
Tax-supported state schools open to all children.
question
Public education
answer
Universal public education was viewed as an avenue to restore equality and to equip the less fortunate for advance in the social scale.
question
American Colonization Society
answer
Organized in 1816 to encourage colonization of free blacks to Africa; West African nation of Liberia founded in 1822 to serve as a homeland for them.
question
American Anti-Slavery Society
answer
Founded in 1833 to organize efforts devoted to abolition.
question
''moral suasion''
answer
A method of reformers attempting to convert people to their cause by highlighting the moral implications of the opposing viewpoint.
question
Uncle Tom's Cabin
answer
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel popularized the abolitionist position.
question
''Am I Not a Man and a Brother?''
answer
A motto adopted by abolitionists to highlight the reality that blacks in bondage were no different than the whites in power over them.
question
''gentlemen of property and standing''
answer
Merchants with close commercial ties to the South.
question
Gag rule
answer
Rule adopted by House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844.
question
Dorothea Dix
answer
A Massachusetts schoolteacher who was the leading advocate of more humane treatment of the insane.
question
Woman suffrage
answer
A woman's right to vote, an issue raised for the first time at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
question
Women in the Nineteenth Century
answer
Published in 1845, Margaret Fuller's work that sought to apply to women the transcendalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.
question
Liberty Party
answer
Abolitionist political party that nominated James G. Birney for president in 1840 and 1844; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848.
question
The American Colonization Society called for:
answer
a gradual end to slavery, and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
question
Dorthea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:
answer
more humane treatment of the insane.
question
The 1836 "gag rule":
answer
prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
question
Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s?
answer
They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
question
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:
answer
the Declaration of Independence.
question
Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?
answer
Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.
question
The founder and earliest leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1820 was:
answer
Joseph Smith
question
Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?
answer
political party conventions
question
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that:
answer
social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
question
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:
answer
raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
question
Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
answer
Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
question
Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:
answer
wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.
question
Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
answer
A conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion," then violent measures would become necessary
question
The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth century United States included all of the following EXCEPT:
answer
societies to shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
question
The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about
answer
100.
question
The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of the freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
answer
abolitionism.
question
Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
answer
100,000
question
At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." Complex marriage at Oneida meant:
answer
any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
question
Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
answer
tariff reform
question
Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
answer
settlement houses in cities.
question
The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by:
answer
William Lloyd Garrison
question
Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.
answer
F
question
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
answer
F
question
Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
answer
F
question
More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
answer
F
question
Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.
answer
F
question
Though women could not vote in the early-nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.
answer
T
question
Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
answer
F
question
A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
answer
F
question
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
answer
T
question
Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
answer
F
question
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
answer
T
question
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.
answer
T
question
The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth-century American Revolutionaries, but from nineteenth-century abolitionists.
answer
T
question
William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
answer
F
question
Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).
answer
F
question
Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
answer
F
question
First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.
answer
F
question
Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.
answer
T
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Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.
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T
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By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
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F
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The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.
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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.
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Committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.
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F
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