American Yawp quiz 1 (exam 2)
during which era was a laborer LEAST likely to live with their employer?
1812-1840
american antislavery shifted from gradualism to immediatism during which decade?
1830s
which of the following statements best describes the status of Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening?
Americans were turning away from Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening
immigrants from which country farmed in rural areas of the old northwest and practiced trades in the growing communities of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee?
Germany
which benevolent movement enjoyed the most success during the 1820s?
Temperance
the ¨gag rule¨ was designed to eliminate the voice of which group in Congress?
abolitionists
Transcendentalism initially began among which group?
american clergymen
which was the term for a region in the state of NY greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening?
burned over district
The Know-Nothing party defined itself as opposing what groups?
catholics and immigrants
which of the following descriptions most accurately describes ¨disinterested benevolence¨?
christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others
which of the following denominations benefits the least from the Second Great Awakening?
congregationalists
what was the primary cause of the 1839 division in the American Antislavery Society?
disagreements over the usefulness of electoral politics and the importance of women's rights
The market revolution brought an innovation in labor practices called ¨piece work¨ What is the piece work system?
division of production into discrete steps performed by different workers
which of the following had the greatest impact on the spread of slavery?
invention of the cotton gin
the erie canal connected industry and consumers in the east with what group?
midwestern farmers
irish immigrants to the US typically settled in what areas?
northeastern cities
most northern abolition laws
only promised to liberate future children born to an enslaved mother
which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in 19th century Atlantic intellectual trends?
orientation toward the future rather than the past
which group of women was most likely to work outside of the house in antebellum America?
poor women
how did the market revolution change the nature of the American family?
the domestic sphere increasingly signified a family's class status
what was the initial purpose of the legal status of incorporation?
to fund projects for the public good
in the 1840s the New England Association of Farmers, Merchants and Other Workingmen organized to agitate for what cause?
to limit the workday to ten hours per day
which of the following came first?
women began forming antislavery societies
female activists used which of the following expectations of gender to justify social activism?
women were expected to be the moral caretakers of the home and therefore it was their duty to speak out on moral issues