Ch. 10

American antislavery shifted from gradualism to immediatism during which decade?

1830s

The "Gag Rule" was designed to eliminate the voice of which group in Congress?

Abolitionists

"True Womanhood" consisted of which principle(s) for women:

All of the answers are correct.

How did the Second Great Awakening promote "spiritual egalitarianism?"

All of the answers are correct.

Believing that Christian Metz was a prophet, this group relocated to Iowa and built seven villages over 25,000 acres. Families lived in individual houses but shared communal kitchens and dining halls.

Amana Society

Which of the following statements best describes the status of Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening?

Americans were turning away from Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening

She penned in 1836 Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, stating that their marriages were being undermined by their husbands' sexual relations with slaves.

Angelina Grimke

He led the Mormons to their own Zion in Utah in 1846, founding Salt Lake City.

Brigham Young

Transcendentalist writer George Ripley founded this commune in 1841 near Boston, Massachusetts.

Brook Farm

What was the term for a region greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening?

Burned Over District

Who was the most prominent Presbyterian minister of the Second Great Awakening, leading religious revivals throughout the Northeast? He was known as the "father of modern revivalism,"

Charles G. Finney

This primary source document declared, "all men and women had been created equal" and listed eighteen "injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman," including taxation of property without representation in government, legal disabilities in marriage, and a double sexual standard for men and women.

Declaration of Sentiments

What was the primary cause of the 1839 division in the American Antislavery Society?

Disagreements over the usefulness of electoral politics and the importance of women's rights

As a teacher and a Unitarian, she was called in 1841 to teach a Sunday school class to women inside the East Cambridge, Massachusetts, House of Corrections, where she learned the plight of the mentally ill first hand.

Dorothea Dix

Which of the following denominations benefitted the least from the Second Great Awakening?

Episcopalians

Transcendentalism initially began among which group?

German Idealists

He founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He claimed to have a made a great discovery in 1827 of a set of golden plates, which he translated into the Book of Mormon.

Joseph Smith

They practiced a "free love" theology in a doctrine of complex marriage, which meant that every man in the community was married to every woman and every woman to every man.

Oneida

This community became well known for selling manufactured items, including steel traps and silver spoons.

Oneida

Which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in nineteenth-century Atlantic intellectual trends?

Orientation toward the future rather than the past

This Christian denomination believed in equality between men and women, abolition of slavery, and fair treatment of Indians.

Quakers

Which of the following came first?

Questions over the role of women activists divided the World Antislavery Convention

In "The American Scholar" (1837) and "Self-Reliance" (1841), he emphasized the utter reliability and sufficiency of the individual soul and exhorted his audience to overcome "our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands." He believed that the time had come for Americans to declare their intellectual independence from Europe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following had the greatest influence on William Lloyd Garrison's move from gradualism to immediatism?

Reading fiery tracts penned by black northerners David Walker and James Forten

In 1837, she published "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes," defending women's rights to speak openly in public and to equal pay for equal work.

Sarah Grimke

At this gathering of men and women, a resolution was drafted that declared women were entitled to right to vote.

Seneca Falls Convention

This group believed celibacy would prepare followers for the perfection that was promised them in heaven.

Shakers

She was born in New York a slave, but was freed in 1825, when the state abolished slavery. She claimed the floor at the Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851, where she gave her "Ain't I a Woman" speech.

Sojourner Truth

Thanks to her efforts, New York in 1860 passed a liberal married woman's property act that included rights to wages, rights to make contracts with a husband's consent, and a right to make contracts if the husband was insane, alcoholic, or in prison.

Susan B. Anthony

Which benevolent movement enjoyed the most success during the 1820s?

Temperance

Which newspaper spearheaded an unprecedented interracial crusade dedicated to promoting immediate emancipation and black citizenship?

The Liberator

Female activists used which of the following expectations of gender to justify social activism?

Women were expected to be the moral caretakers of the home and therefore it was their duty to speak out on moral issues

Called coverture:

a married woman lost her civil rights or her feme sole status where she could own property, sign contracts, and be held legally responsible for her actions.

The Temperance Crusade, or the movement to temper the use of alcohol begun in earnest, and women took a lead in the movement.

attempted to persuade people to stop drinking.

Female Moral Reform Societies:

worked to end the sexual double standard and lobbied state legislatures to outlaw men from soliciting women into prostitution.