Chapter 9/10 Quiz
Which of the following describes 19th century Shakers?
They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.
According to Ernestine Rose, what factor explained the lack of women's access to equal rights in the United States?
Antifemale prejudice.
Which statement best expresses Paul Johnson's thesis on the effects of evangelical revival and reform on workingmen during the Second Great Awakening?
A significant minority of workingmen willingly imposed a work ethic discipline on themselves.
Paul Johnson and Steven Mintz would likely agree that religious revival, religious reform, and the Market Revolution prior to the Civil War led to a?
A greater emphasis on self-discipline and personal responsibility.
What was the second great awakening that took place in the United States in the nineteenth century?
A long lasting religious revival that made the United States a genuinely religious society.
After examining all of the sources included here, a historian might come to the conclusion that?
All Americans recognized that universal public education was potentially transformative.
The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in which of the following regions of the Louisiana purchase?
All the lands north of latitude 36°30′ except for the state of Missouri.
What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?
Americans lived in social isolation, without any ties to caste, class, association, or family.
Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their children's marriages in the United States in 1800?
Because landholdings shrank, parents lost leverage over their children's choices of marital partners.
What did Thaddeus Stevens (source 2) suggest would happen if Pennsylvania provided universal free public education for its children?
Citizens would gain the knowledge they need to govern.
Steven Mintz points out that many Americans in this age of reform saw the acceptance of moral reform and internalized self-control as creating the possibility for?
Freedom and opportunity
According to the author of "Popular Education" (source 4), education was a necessary precondition for?
Freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?
He argued that people should reflect old conventions and discover their original relation with nature.
Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in post revolutionary America?
Most states continued to support churches indirectly by not taxing their property or ministers' incomes.
Which of the following statements characterizes the American political system directly after the American Revolution?
Notables managed local elections through their personal connections.
Which of the following describes the political developments taking place in America during the first two decades of the nineteenth century?
Ordinary white men's rising political status was accompanies by a decline in the political rights of women and free blacks.
In the early republic, Benjamin Rush and other leaders argued that women should be educated to they can do which of the following?
Oversee the instruction of their sons in the principles of liberty and government.
What does Ernestine Rose suggest will eventually bring about women's equality in the United States?
Republican principles.
The proposed 1819 Talmadge Amendment articulated which of the following plans?
The gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri.
What does the author of source 1 suggest will occur if Pennsylvania provides universal free public education?
The poor will work less conscientiously.
According to the letter by Pauline Roland and Jeanne Deroine to American suffragists, by which of the following means would French women attain equality?
The world of work.
Individuals like Judge Baker (source 5) believed that widespread education and literacy would?
Threaten the legal and social order in Virginia.