Ch 12 Give Me Liberty
The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about:
100
Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
100000
A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
F
Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.
F
Abolitionists supported the idea of "wage slavery."
F
According to Frederick Douglass, the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.
F
As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.
F
As they were committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.
F
Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.
F
By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
F
Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.
F
Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
F
Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
F
Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.
F
More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
F
Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).
F
Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
F
Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
F
Similar to the Shaker practice of celibacy, the Oneida community exercised monogamous marriages.
F
William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
F
Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?
Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.
America's first black newspaper was called
Freedom's Journal
Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
Which was not true of Brook Farm?
It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century: It was modeled on the ideas of the French social reformer Charles Fourier. It required manual labor and intellectual pursuits by residents. It was established by New England transcendentalists outside Boston.
In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.
Margret Fuller
In 1832, this black woman became the first American woman to lecture to mixed male and female audiences.
Maria Stewart
This utopian community was created in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a son of a U.S. congressman.
Onieda
"Shakers" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.
T
Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female abolitionist orators in the country during her time.
T
Abolitionists used the press to mock the nation's claim to be a "land of the free."
T
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.
T
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.
T
Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.
T
Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.
T
In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.
T
John Humphrey Noyes felt his followers had become so perfect that they had actually achieved a state of complete "purity of heart," or sinlessness.
T
Josiah Warren's utopian societies included stores where goods were exchanged according to the amount of work a person completed. This was a direct attempt to cut out bankers and merchants from sharing in the hard-earned income of farmers, laborers, and manufacturers.
T
Shakers were so named because they engaged in frenzied dancing.
T
The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor, intellectual work, and leisure.
T
The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.
T
Though women could not vote in the early-nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.
T
To Theodore Weld, along with other abolitionist speakers, the only proper response to the sin of slavery was the institution's immediate elimination.
T
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on
The Declaration of Independence
Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, '30s, and '40s?
They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
The region of the United States that came to be known as the "burned-over district" as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was
Upper New York and northern Ohio
The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by
William Lloyd Garrison
Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?
a spirit of courage and defiance in the face of broad, often violent hostility
The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called
abolitionism
The Liberty Bell took on its name-previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell-after
abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery.
At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant:
any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that
both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization
"Gentlemen of property and standing" were
merchants with close commercial ties to the South.
Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of
more humane treatment of the insane
Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?
political party conventions: voluntary reform associations, petition drives, public meetings
The 1836 "gag rule"
prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted all of the following views except that:
schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
settlement houses in citites: orphanages for children without families insane asylums poorhouses for the destitute
The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth-century United States included all of the following except societies to:
shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
The greatest evil in American society at first appeared to attract the least attention from the reformers— _________.
slavery
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that:
social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
tariff reform: pacifism women's rights abolitionism
Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society
wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.