Question 1

Unlike the North, revivalism in southern states did not

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Push for social reform

Question 2

Which of the following identifies a major goal of the early women\'s rights activists?

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to free married women from laws that gave their husbands control of their property and children

Question 3

In practice, working-class families viewed the new public schools

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As depriving them of needed wage earners

Question 4

Why has the nineteenth century been identified as \"the century of the child?\"

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Parents had a new concern for children and families became child-centered.

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a major change in middle-class family life during the nineteenth century?

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More and more women were forced to work outside the home.

Question 6

The first great practitioner of evangelical Calvinism was

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Lyman Beecher.

Question 7

Nineteenth century parents began using _______ to enforce good behavior among their children.

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Guilt

Question 8

The sociological basis for the Cult of Domesticity was

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a growing division of labor between men and women.

Question 9

The temperance movement

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addressed a very real social problem of the time.

Question 10

Which group was most active in the Underground Railroad?

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Free blacks in the north

Question 11

As a result of changes in the middle-class family, nineteenth-century children

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Increasingly became viewed as individuals

Question 12

Abolitionism received its greatest support in the

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small to medium-sized towns of the upper North.

Question 13

Which U.S. President received less than two years of formal education and sharpened his intellect thought participation in debating societies and lyceums?

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 14

Which statement below is true of the African colonization movement?

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It was opposed by African Americans in the North.

Question 15

What was the Second Great Awakening?

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A wave of religious revivals

Question 16

In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, mid-nineteenth-century public schools taught

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The Protestant Ethic

Question 17

In the early nineteenth century, American Protestant denominations strengthened religious values and increased church membership through

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Revivalism

Question 18

Why did Catharine Beecher argue that women should be schoolteachers?

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Women were best suited to instill virtues in young male children.

Question 19

The reform movement in New England began as a(n)

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effort to defend Calvinism against Enlightenment ideas.

Question 20

The chief example of the tie between revivalism and abolitionism was the career of

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Theodore Weld

Question 21

The most important function of the school in 1850 was seen as

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Moral Indocrination

Question 22

The Cult of Domesticity primarily affected the lives of

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relatively affluent women.

Question 23

Which group\'s belief that the Deity was the benevolent architect of a rational universe particularly disturbed Reverend Timothy Dwight?

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Unitarians

Question 24

Lyman Beecher was most closely associated with which one of the following reform movements?

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Temperance

Question 25

Temperance reformers opposed consumption of alcohol for all of these reasons except the belief that alcohol

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consumption decreased business profits.

Question 26

Why did educational reformers sometimes think of the local school as a substitute for the family?

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They were worried that poor and immigrant families would not properly nurture their children.

Question 27

The radical abolitionist and cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society was

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William Lloyd Garrison.

Question 28

Each of the following was a result of the temperance campaign of the 1830s EXCEPT

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large numbers of confirmed drunkards were cured

Question 29

The \"proper\" sphere for middle-class white women in the nineteenth century was

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keeping house and raising a family.

Question 30

The Cult of Domesticity

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saw women as guardians of virtue within the family.

Question 31

The most influential spokesman for the common school movement was

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Horace Mann.

Question 32

Which statement best characterizes how evangelical culture changed the role of women in American society?

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Women became more confined to the home but became more important inside it.

Question 33

In 1848, at Seneca Fall, New York,

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the first national gathering of feminists took place

Question 34

This movement had the greatest influence on the development of the abolitionist movement.

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Second Great Awakening

Question 35

As a result of revivalism, Northern evangelicals were involved with each of the following EXCEPT

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Indian removal

Question 36

________ became one of the most significant leaders of the women\'s rights movement.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 37

The idea that people could conduct their lives completely free of sin is called

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Perfectionism

Question 38

The feminine subculture for many middle-class women during this era focused on

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Establishing a sense of solidarity with other women.

Question 39

What was the Washingtonian Society?

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a temperance group whose members discussed their struggles with alcoholism

Question 40

Which of the following individuals is INCORRECTLY matched with his or her reform movement?

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All of the above are correctly matched.

Question 41

The term \"benevolent empire\" referred to

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a group of missionary and reform societies that worked together.

Question 42

William Lloyd Garrison\'s stand on _________ led to an open break in the abolitionist movement in the 1840s.

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women\'s rights

Question 43

What was considered the main function of the family unit in the nineteenth century?

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To raise children

Question 44

Frederick Douglass was not

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A presidential candidate in 1868

Question 45

Which of the following identifies the typical attitude toward the abolitionist movement of working-class urban whites?

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They resisted abolitionism because they did not want to compete socially and economically with African Americans.

Question 46

How did radical revivalist Charles G. Finney violate Christian tradition?

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He allowed women to pray aloud in church.

Question 47

Which of the following identifies a key reason why society began focusing on childhood in the nineteenth century?

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Families got smaller and individual children became more highly valued.

Question 48

In what way do historians consider the abolitionist movement of the 1830s and 1840s a success?

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It brought the issue of slavery into the public consciousness.

Question 49

Why were relations between black and white abolitionists often tense?

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Black abolitionists protested that they did not have a fair share of influence and leadership positions in the movement.

Question 50

Abolitionism served as a catalyst for the ________ movement.

Accepted Answer

Women\'s Rights

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