Study.com Chapter 8

The temperance movement was also linked with...

Anti-immigrant feelings

Dorothea Dix was important for her work in what movement in the antebellum era?

Asylums for the mentally ill

What industry did John Deere and Cyrus McCormick work in?

Farm technology

Who were well-known transcendental writers?

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which best describes Southern society in the antebellum era?

It had a stable structure with four basic social classes.

After mid-century, which was the most important means of transportation through the interior of the nation?

Railroads

Which of the following was the focus of a major reform movement during the 19th century?

Temperance, the educational system, and women's suffrage

How did the environmental differences of the North and the South impact their economies?

The rivers in the North powered machinery and the climate in the South enabled the production of cash crops.

Why were slaves from Caribbean the preferred choice?

They had low escape possibilities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau made great use of nature and the concept of self-reliance in their writings. They belonged to a uniquely American school of philosophy known as

Transcendentalism.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote

Uncle Tom's Cabin

During the early 19th century, steamships and canals greatly improved transportation in the

entire U.S.

Which was an important direct effect of industrialization?

urbanization

During the antebellum period, racism in the Northern U.S. _____

was still a part of everyday life.

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 new ideas greatly improved transportation during the antebellum era?

The National Road, The steamship, The expansion of railways

The period between The War of 1812 and the Civil War was known in American History as

the Antebellum Period

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.

Which would most likely have been a popular attraction in the antebellum era?

A Vaudeville show

Which American artistic movement featured dramatic landscapes without people in them?

Romanticism

Which of the following artistic movements validated personal emotional experiences?

Romanticism

The first major convention focused on support for female suffrage and women's rights was the

Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

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

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.

It was almost impossible to diversify the economy in the Southern U.S. during this period because

growing cotton with slave labor was so profitable.

An honorable Southern gentleman did NOT feel the need to defend _____ as a priority.

his country

Which of the following was NOT part of the slave trade?

Slaves were shown how to write.

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 were executed after killing 60 whites.