Chap 7 Everyday Life In Antebellum America
Erie Canal
canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System
The Middle Passage was _____.
the leg of the triangle trade bringing African slaves to the New World
The platform of the Abolitionist movement wanted
to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation without the use of violence.
Hudson River School
was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism
Which of the following would most likely have been a popular attraction in the antebellum era?
A circus act
Dorothea Dix was important for her work in what movement in the antebellum era?
Asylums for the mentally ill
Why would most Americans have been unlikely to read a Douay Bible in the 19th century?
Because it is a Catholic translation and most Americans were Protestant
What industry did John Deere and Cyrus McCormick work in?
Farm technology
Which group first popularized art museums and landscape paintings?
Hudson River School
Who were well-known transcendental writers? I. Henry David Thoreau II. Albert Bierstadt III. Charles Blondin IV. Ralph Waldo Emerson V. Edgar Allan Poe
I and IV
Which of the following most accurately describes the settlement of immigrants in the mid-19th century?
Irish immigrants settled in East Coast cities while German immigrants moved to the Midwest.
Which best describes Southern U.S. society in the antebellum era?
It had a stable structure with four basic social classes.
Which best describes the federal government's position on building transportation networks?
It opposed such internal improvements, believing they were best left to states and private investors.
Which is TRUE of Southern industry in the antebellum era of the U.S.?
It produced goods that were rarely exported.
Who wrote for girls on themes such as femininity?
Louisa May Alcott
Which of the following is true regarding the industrial experience of the Lowell Girls versus that of the immigrants?
Lowell girls had plenty to eat whereas immigrants were in poor conditions.
After mid-century, which was the most important means of transportation through the interior of the nation?
Railroads
Who was an artist that revolutionized communications technology?
Samuel Morse
What was the Clermont?
The first commercial steam ship in the U.S.
How did the environmental differences of the North and the South of the U.S. impact their economies in the antebellum period
The rivers in the North powered machinery and the climate in the South enabled the production of cash crops.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott advocated for women's rights after their involvement in what other reform movement?
Abolition
Why were workers often and easily fired during the 1830s?
Because there were plenty of immigrants who were necessitating jobs.
Where did public schools exist in early America?
Massachusetts
Where did most of Lowell's factory girls come from initially?
They were farm girls from the surrounding countryside.
Slave Codes
were a set of laws that allowed a slave's master to retrieve their slave from free states without their permission
David Walker, who predated the Abolitionist Movement and advocated violence in ending slavery wrote _____.
An Appeal in Four Articles
What are false statements about the Slave Code?
- Slaves could speak in court or legally marry. - Slaves could defend themselves against a white person. - Slaves could carry a weapon or gather in groups.
What were reasons for the expansion of the 'old Southwest' in the U.S.
- The opening of land along the Gulf Coast - The shift from tobacco to cotton - Rising cotton prices The invention of the cotton gin
Which were hindrances to building railroads in the early 19th century?
- Turnpike operators opposed it. - Canal building had sapped state funds. - The Panic of 1837 limited private funding.
Why did the North focus its efforts on industrialization rather than cash crops during the antebellum era?
A combination of climate advantages in the South, and the large-scale farming moving out West forced the North to rely on a commercial economy rather than agriculture.
In the U.S. antebellum period, slaves in the task system worked until the task was completed. Which type of slave was most likely to work under the task system?
A field hand on a rice plantation
Which of the following was NOT true of Nativists?
Nativists were never concerned by the increasing population of African Americans.
Which was America's first coeducational college?
Oberlin
William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti Slavery Society, wrote _____.
The Liberator
Frederick Douglas, an ex-slave known for his writing and great speeches, wrote _____.
The North Star
In early America, why were slaves from Caribbean the preferred choice when compared to Native Americans?
They had low escape possibilities.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote _____.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which was an important direct effect of industrialization?
Urbanization
Brook Farm and the Oneida colony were both examples of which of the following?
Utopian societies
Corporation
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law
Temperance Movement
a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages
Romanticism
an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850
The temperance movement was also linked with...
Anti-immigrant feelings
In the interior of the nation, which was the most important means of shipping in the early 19th century?
Canals
Which of the following compares the slave revolt led by Denmark Vesey with that of Nat Turner?
Denmark Vesey was killed before his revolt could be carried out while Nat Turner was executed after killing 60 whites.
Which was NOT part of the slave trade?
Slaves were shown how to write.
