AP PSYCH QUIZ CHAPTER 11
How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844
By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in congress
How did leading African Americans in the North hope to elevate blacks to an equal social status with whites after the 1790s?
By securing respectability
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society's most successful tactic in affecting public opinion?
Mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country
Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their Declaration of Sentiments on
The declaration of independencd
Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?
The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.
. Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?
They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.
Why did Mormons move their communities several times
They were persecuted by other groups
Between the 1820's and 1860's on which group of people was urban popular culture base
Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?
Women should focus on domestic life, not public life
What did women reformers refer to when they spoke about "domestic slavery" in the 1840s?
Women's loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage