History Ch 10

Which New York passageway became the home to shops showing the latest fashions as well as thousands of prostitutes in the 1830s and 1840s? Erie Canal Broadway Wall Street Bowery

Broadway Broadway was home to both the most fashionable shops and scores of houses of ill repute.

This image suggests that women learned which of the following subjects during their education? Languages Religion Mathematics Geography

Geography The woman at the right is studying a globe, inferring that women studied geography.

Which state was among the three that enacted the first married women's property laws between 1839 and 1845? Ohio Mississippi New York Connecticut

Mississippi Legislatures in Mississippi, Maine, and Massachusetts enacted married women's property laws between 1839 and 1845.

The Mormon trek followed general trends of American migration in the nineteenth century in that it visited the Deep South. went west. ended in Utah. reached the Pacific.

went west.

An 1851 law in Maine outlawed the sale of what commodity? Sex Slavery Alcohol Bibles

Alcohol The famous Maine Law of 1851 outlawed the sale of alcohol in the state.

What did those within the network of the Benevolent Empire focus most of their efforts on eliminating? Gender inequality Slavery Taxation Alcohol consumption

Alcohol consumption Age-old evils like adultery, prostitution, crime, and drunkenness became targets for elimination by the Benevolent Empire.

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson encourage listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality? He wanted them to seek individual wealth through hard work. He wanted them to experience self-realization. He wanted them to join moral reform movements for temperance, maintain the Sabbath, and support the abolition of slavery. He wanted them to experience an evangelical Christian conversion experience.

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.

Who encouraged Congress to restrict abolitionist use of the mail system? Henry Clay William Lloyd Garrison James G. Birney Andrew Jackson

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

Abolitionists in the 1830s and 1840s utilized several measures in their attempt to abolish slavery and emancipate the slaves. Which tactic proved to be the most dangerous? Assisting African Americans and escaped slaves through the Underground Railroad Printing and distributing a million pamphlets pushing the abolitionist message Burning and destroying slave owners' property in the South Launching a petition campaign demanding Congress abolish slavery

Assisting African Americans and escaped slaves through the Underground Railroad One of the tactics used by the abolitionists was assisting escaped slaves through the Underground Railroad by providing lodging and jobs. If caught, fugitive slaves risked re-enslavement or death.

Besides the Methodist Church, which other church experienced spectacular growth in membership during the Second Great Awakening? Congregationalist Baptist Quaker Episcopalian

Baptist Americans in large numbers joined evangelical Methodist and Baptist churches that preached spiritual equality and developed egalitarian cultures marked by communal singing and emotional services. Challenge

How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. By passing antislavery legislation By outlawing slavery in the District of Columbia By supporting the abolitionists' mail campaign By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress

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 mail, 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 Companionate marriage Gender equality Celibacy

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

Why did Dorothea Dix lobby the Massachusetts legislature for an enlargement of the state hospital for mental patients? Having suffered bouts of depression herself, she knew the situation in mental hospitals. Dix knew the plight of the mentally ill from her work as a nurse. She wanted the inside of mental hospitals to resemble family and home life more closely. Dix objected to the fact that mentally ill women were jailed alongside men.

Dix objected to the fact that mentally ill women were jailed alongside men. Dix had discovered that insane women were jailed alongside male criminals, so she persuaded Massachusetts lawmakers to enlarge the state hospital to house indigent mental patients.

In what area did Susan B. Anthony gain the most success during the nineteenth century in her campaign for women's rights? Suffrage Employment opportunity Economic rights Social equality

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.

What was Ralph Waldo Emerson's central message about what the individual had to "transcend"? Faith Existing customs One's parents Materialism

Existing customs Emerson explained that people were trapped by inherited customs and institutions.

What partially explains the success of the Shakers and the Oneida community relative to the failure of Brook Farm? High-quality production of one commodity Social skepticism Sexual abstention Lack of a sex scandal

High-quality production of one commodity The Shakers, with their furniture, and the Oneida community, with their silverware, were able to sustain themselves economically while Brook Farm had difficulty creating, then selling, its agricultural surplus.

Why did Brook Farm fail? It attracted intellectuals with few practical skills. It was attacked by anti-abolitionists. It promoted leisure, which prevented needed work from being done. It was unable to become economically self-sufficient.

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.

Who was nominated as the Liberty Party's candidate for president in 1840? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. Theodore Weld Nat Turner William Lloyd Garrison James G. Birney

James G. Birney James G. Birney was a former slave owner, and was nominated as the Liberty Party's presidential candidate in 1840.

Reformers influenced by the Second Great Awakening succeeded in combating a number of social ills. With which of the following did they have the least success? Alcohol Sabbath honoring Orphanages Insane asylums

Sabbath honoring Though reformers embraced Sabbatarianism, a movement to require businesses to close on Sunday, very few businesses complied.

Why were most teachers women by the 1850s? School boards believed that women were better suited for the profession. More and more families needed the second income. Men tried to avoid the teaching profession whenever possible. Their natural talent for teaching was finally recognized.

School boards believed that women were better suited for the profession. Local school boards heeded Catharine Beecher's argument that "energetic and benevolent women" were better qualified than men to impart moral and intellectual instruction to the young. In addition, the boards liked the fact that they could pay female teachers less than they had to pay male teachers.

Why did young girls in mid-nineteenth-century cities turn to prostitution? Deeply poor migrant families sold their daughters for mere survival. Living in the city freed them from their family's tight control. Some poor young women did not like the alternative ways of making a living. They had to find ways to pay for their alcoholism.

Some poor young women did not like the alternative ways of making a living. Young women who worked as domestic servants or in the needle trades in antebellum northern cities not only lived in dire poverty but also suffered sexual exploitation. Many instead turned to prostitution.

Which of the following is suggested by the illustration that accompanied David Walker's An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)? Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. That blacks on earth had a divine right to justice and liberty That a black Moses received the Ten Commandments from God That African Americans were going to avenge the crucifixion of Jesus That Jesus was most likely of African descent

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.

What was the primary difference between the Second Great Awakening and the First Great Awakening?

The First Great Awakening divided denominations, while the Second Great Awakening fostered cooperation among them. The primary difference between the First Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening was that the Second Great Awakening fostered cooperation between denominations, while the First sowed division.

Why did the theology of the Second Great Awakening appeal to African American Protestants? African American Protestants were few in number and enjoyed being part of the larger religious movement that was the Second Great Awakening. African American Protestants believed in the doctrine of predestination, which was emphasized during the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening placed an emphasis on redemption that appealed to enslaved Christians. The Second Great Awakening encouraged enslaved African Americans to obey their masters.

The Second Great Awakening placed an emphasis on redemption that appealed to enslaved Christians. African American Protestants tended to view God as depicted in the Old Testament: as a warrior who had liberated the Jews and who would also liberate them. As such, the Second Great Awakening's emphasis on redemption appealed to black Protestants.

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?

The middle class had left family farms to make their way in the urban world. Many of those in the middle class found Emerson's ideas appealing since his ideas about self-realization spoke to their experiences of leaving family farms to forge their own paths in life.

Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians? They pushed American crafts to new artistic levels. They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions. They gathered extremely large followings. They explicitly addressed questions of racial inequality.

They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions. These utopian communities stood as countercultural blueprints for a more egalitarian social and economic order. Their radical challenge to traditional norms of sexuality and gender and their opposition to capitalist principles and class divisions tell us much about the transformation that American society underwent during that time. Challenge

How did African Americans of the urban North aim to accomplish social uplift from the 1790s onward? Through petitions to city councils With militant self-defense With civil rights campaigns Through temperance and hard work

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."

This is an image of Margaret Fuller. Fuller is historically significant because she began a national movement to establish public asylums for the mentally ill. founded the Female Moral Reform Society. sought women's equality through transcendental ideas. was one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

sought women's equality through transcendental ideas. Fuller published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1844, endorsing the transcendental principle that all people could develop a life-affirming mystical relationship with God. Every woman therefore deserved psychological and social independence.