APUSH Learning Curve Chapter 11

Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their Declaration of Sentiments on

the Declaration of Independence. Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their rousing Declaration of Sentiments on the Declaration of Independence, declaring "All men and women are created equal" and adding, "[yet] the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman [and] the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her."

What was Ralph Waldo Emerson's central message about what the individual had to "transcend"?

Existing customs

Who encouraged Congress to restrict abolitionist use of the mail system?

Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson, a longtime slave owner, asked Congress in 1835 to restrict the use of the mail by abolitionist groups.

What was one of the strategies that evangelical abolitionists used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?

Bombarding Congress with petitions to end slavery Between 1835 and 1838, the American Anti-Slavery Society bombarded Congress with petitions containing nearly 500,000 signatures. They demanded the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, an end to the interstate slave trade, and a ban on admission of new slave states.

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

By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress → The federal government's response to abolition was mostly negative and included the House of Representatives passing a gag rule to automatically table antislavery petitions, although when President Andrew Jackson asked Congress to ban abolitionist literature from the mails, Congress did not act.

John Humphrey Noyes embraced which strategy as a means to liberate individuals and reform relations between men and women?

Complex marriage → In order to reform gender relations, Noyes, a perfectionist, advocated complex marriage, where all community members were married to one another.

In what area did Susan B Anthony gain success in 1860 in her campaign for women's rights

Economic rights In 1860, Anthony's efforts secured a New York law granting women the right to control their own wages (which fathers or husbands had previously managed); to own property acquired by "trade, business, labors, or services"; and, if widowed, to assume sole guardianship of their children.

Based on this chart, which of the following may have contributed to the largest surge of immigration in the nineteenth century?

External factors Immigration was at its highest in the late 1840s and early 1850s, as a result of the failed German revolutions and the Irish potato famine.

What was one reason that John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, rejected monogamy?

He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands. The founder of Oneida, Noyes rejected monogamy in part to free women from their status as the property of their husbands, as they were by custom and by common law.

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson encourage listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality?

He wanted them to experience self-realization. → In Emerson's view, individuals could be remade only by discovering their "original relation with Nature" and entering into a mystical union with the "currents of Universal Being," so they could attain individual self-realization.

What statement describes the Mormon practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century?

It was opposed by some within their church as well as non-Mormon Christians outside it. Joseph Smith's pronouncement of polygamy as a divinely sanctioned practice caused some dissent from within the religious sect and provided antagonistic non-Mormon Christians with extra ammunition with which to attack Mormons.

Why did Brook Farm fail?

It was unable to become economically self-sufficient. Brook Farm failed economically and was unsustainable. It is true that it attracted mostly intellectuals with few practical skills, but this alone did not lead to failure.

Why did the Georgia legislature offer a $5,000 reward for the capture of William Lloyd Garrison?

Legislators charged Garrison with inciting rebellion. → The Georgia legislature offered a $5,000 reward for kidnapping Garrison and bringing him to the South to be tried (or lynched) for inciting rebellion. But by writing against slavery and for abolition, Garrison had not broken any law.

What was the American Anti-Slavery Society's most successful tactic in affecting public opinion?

Mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country → The American Anti-Slavery Society's mail campaign helped to spread their message and attracted thousands to the cause.

Which statement summarizes the publication of Herman Melville's Moby Dick?

Middle-class readers rejected the dark narrative. Moby Dick was a commercial failure. The middle-class audience that devoured sentimental American fiction refused to follow Melville into the dark, dangerous realm of individualism gone mad.

Why did the Mormon community in Utah succeed?

Shared hard work → Using cooperative labor and an irrigation system based on communal water rights, the Mormon pioneers quickly spread agricultural communities along the base of the Wasatch Range.

Which of the following is suggested by the illustration that accompanied David Walker's An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)?

That blacks on earth had a divine right to justice and liberty The document the black figure receives from above shows the words "Liberta" and "Justitia"— Latin for justice and liberty. The illustration aimed to make the point that these things were divine rights for African Americans just as they were for white Americans.

Based on this map, which area of the country would most likely be called the "Cotton Belt"?

The area with a slave population of 50 percent or more from Georgia to Texas → This region was home to a relatively high percentage of slaves in the population because it was the focus of the expansion of slavery in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

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. → The middle class accepted Emerson because his ideas on individualism closely resembled the middle-class belief in moral perfection and moral free agency, as taught by Benjamin Franklin and Charles Grandison Finney.

How did northern white populations respond to African Americans' efforts to gain "respectability" in the early republic?

They lashed out violently. → The black quest for respectability elicited a violent response in Boston, Pittsburgh, and other northern cities among whites who refused to accept African Americans as their social equals.

William Lloyd Garrison's insistence on broadening the abolitionist agenda split the organization by pushing out which group?

Those who did not support women's rights → Garrison's insistence on including other reforms, especially his backing of women's rights, split the abolitionist movement.

How did African Americans of the urban North aim to accomplish social uplift from the 1790s onward?

Through temperance and hard work At a time when most African Americans still lived in slavery in the South and governments showed no interest in expanding rights, African Americans in the urban North had low expectations regarding equal civil rights or a sympathetic city government. The only prospect for improved living conditions was their own struggle for "respectability."

Perfectionists of the early 1800s believed that freedom from sin was possible

because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred. Perfectionists believed that the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and that people could therefore achieve perfection in themselves and society with complete freedom from sin.