APUSH: Chapter 11 Quiz

Who wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which detail the evils of slavery?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who is known as the "father of education" and favorite tax supported elementary school?

Horace Mann

What help to promote raciest ideas in the mid-19th century?

Minstrel Shows

Why did the Virginia assembly reject a bill providing for the gradual emancipation in colonization abroad of African-Americans in 1831?

Nat Turner's rebellion how to raise the fear of black violence

William Lloyd Garrison, founder of "The Liberator," could best be described as an...

abolitionist

Dorthea Dix continued the tradition of female reformers in what way?

advocating reform of prisons and public hospitals while arguing for asylums

How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844?

by blocking the bay of anti-slavery 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 aspect of transcendentalism is seen in Henry David Thoreau's statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer?"

individualism

What was the American anti-slavery society's most successful tactic it affecting public opinion?

mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country

Which of the following was one thing that almost all whites, regardless of social status or geographical location, agreed-upon?

preventing racial mixing and intermarriage of white and blacks

What was the strategy that evangelical abolitionist used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?

publicizing the evils of slavery

The national woman's rights convention of 1851 declare that which of the following was the cornerstone of the goals of the women's movement?

suffrage

Woman at the Seneca Falls convention baster declaration of sentiments on...

the declaration of independence

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 the Mormons move their communities several times?

they were persecuted by other groups

Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?

thousands of young rurel 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-19th century by men like be evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?

woman 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 the loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage