1.12.T - Lesson: 19th Century Religion & Reform Review- History

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriett Beecher Stowe portrayed slavery as morally wrong and a threat to the ______ _______.

American family

The __________________ Penitentiary was founded in New York in 1816 as an experiment of a new model for reforming criminals.

Auburn

The Second Great Awakening established a new Christian ritual, the _________ Meeting, where entire communities would gather under the shelter of a tent for powerful revival services.

Camp

Theodore Dwight Weld was influenced by which of the following American religious leaders?

Charles Finney

Which of the following individuals led massive revivals in upstate New York and preached that through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Christians could become as perfect as God Himself?

Charles Finney

Which of the following individuals was instrumentals in bringing about reforms in how the United States care for the mentally ill?

Dorthea Dix

accepts the existence of God but rejects miracles, including the resurrection

Early Nineteenth Century Deism

Which of the following abolitionists was killed by a mob in Alton, Illinois near the border of Missouri?

Elijah Lovejoy

Which of the following best describes the structural changes in middle and upper class families during the 1820s and 1830s?

Families became more child-centered

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the Republican Party in the election of 1856?

For their candidate, the party nominated Abraham Lincoln, a little-known politician From Illinois

The ______ ______ Movement became a powerful force in the 1850s and eventually contributed to the rise of the Republican Party.

Free Soil

Which of the following argued that Southern masters treated their slaves better than Northern bosses treated their factory laborers?

George Fitzhugh

This famous American Transcendentalist authored "Civil Disobedience," which inspired numerous reformers including Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Henry David Thoreau

Which of the following individuals was the most influential supporter of public education in the nineteenth century?

Horace Mann

Which of the following best describes the philosophy of William Lloyd Garrison?

Immediate emancipation without emigration

What did Southerners believe to be true about the Panic of 1857?

It proved that the southern slave-based economic system was superior to the northern free-labor economy

Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the southern part of the United States and helped convince Congress to make the Gadsden Purchase?

Jefferson Davis

Which of the following individuals founded the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons?

Joesph Smith

In 1821, the American Colonization Society founded a colony in West Africa called _______ and managed to settle a few thousand emancipated slaves there.

Liberia

The ______________ Party became the first political organization to nominate antislavery political candidates.

Liberty

Which of the following individuals led large revivals in his home state of Connecticut and helped turn the tide of the church's conflict with Enlightenment theology?

Lyman Beecher

Which of the following denominations became known for using circuit riders in order to reach sparsely populated regions in the Midwest?

Methodists

The _______ ________ of 1820 allowed Americans to avoid a discussion of slavery in national politics.

Missouri Compromise

Those who advocated for gradual emancipation had their best opportunity in 1831 and 1832 when the Virginia legislature considered the issue after ___________ _____________ Rebellion

Nat Turner

Almost every __________ representative voted to pass the Wilmot Proviso during the first vote in the House of Representatives.

Northern

Mostly because of the efforts of Theodore Dwight Weld, which of the following states became the center of abolitionist activity in the 1830s? [choose all that apply]

Ohio and New York

Edgar Allen ______ of Virginia developed a distinctive style of incredibly profound and haunting stories and poems that shocked the culture of his time.

Poe

In 1856, antislavery extremist John Brown carried out a deadly reprisal in Kansa and murdered five pro-slavery settlers in what is known as the _____ _____.

Pottawatomie Massacre

Stephen A. Douglas tried to work with politicians from both the North and the South because he hoped to gain the Democratic nomination for _______ in 1856.

President

According to your course materials, which of the following American authors was the most famous Transcendentalist?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following individuals was the President of Yale College and led the fight against Unitarians and Universalists in New England?

Reverend Timothy Dwight

Which of the following was a movement in American literature where authors and poets drew their inspiration from the splendor of nature and things that could not be explained through the use of reason?

Romanticism

Which of the following was NOT true concerning General Winfield Scott's nomination in the election of 1852?

Scott narrowly lost to Franklin Pierce in the Electoral College

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Sectionalism in the United States ended for a short time

The early women's rights advocates in the first half of the nineteenth century gathered for the first time at the ______ ______ Convention in 1848.

Seneca Falls

The Declaration of _______ declared that "all men and ________ are created equal" and called for a repeal of all laws that placed men in superiority in relation to women.

Sentiments women

Which politician hoped to see the Continental Railroad go through the northern part of the United States and helped organize the Kansas-Nebraska Act so that the railroad could pass through them?

Stephen A. Douglas

Which amendment to the Constitution did John C. Calhoun claim protected southerners' rights to take their slaves into western territories?

The Fifth Amendment

What was the name of the organization that led the movement against alcoholism in the United States during much of the nineteenth century?

The Temperance Society

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Sectional Crisis in the United States?

The end of Millard Fillmore's presidency

Which of the following established Oberlin College, which became known for abolitionist activity?

Theodore Dwight Weld

The _______ Club, which began meeting in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts in 1837, produced some of America's most important authors.

Transcendental

all men and women would be saved in the end despite their actions or choices

Universalism

After many years of wandering, Brigham Young eventually led the Mormons to their "promised land" in the _________ territory, where they arrived in July 1847.

Utah

Which major American political party faded from the political scene in the 1850s?

Whigs

The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed the voters to decide on the slavery question

by popular sovereignty

The ____ _____ stirred up the slavery debate again in 1854.

continental railroad

The Election of 1856 revealed that the ________ states controlled the majority of the Electoral College.

northern

The belief that building the economy was the burden of men and building the home was the burden of women became known as

separate spheres

In the early nineteenth century, men and women who made a pledge to completely abstain from hard liquor became known as ______.

teetotalers

Which of the following led the break from abolitionism to focus instead on women's rights?

the Grimke sisters

The Free Soil Movement was committed to what cause?

the containment of slavery

Which of the following best describes the Cult of Domesticity?

the notion that women had a distinctive role in the family to ensure the virtue of their husbands and children

What was the major characteristic of American political parties by the late 1850s?

they had their base of support wholly in one section of the United States

Before the 1850s, which of following was true of the Democratic Party?

they represented people in both the North and the South

According to the course materials, what was the main purpose of jails before the American Revolution?

to hold criminals before they received punishment

rejects the doctrine of the trinity

unitarianism

Which of the following was the most popular alcoholic beverage of the early nineteenth century?

whiskey

In the early nineteenth century, ____________ became the spiritual and moral leaders of most families.

women

What were the results of the civil war that occurred in Kansas before 1856? [choose all that apply]

-200 deaths -millions of dollars in property damage

The Republican Part began as both an anti- _________ and an anti- ___________ party.

-slavery -immigration

Which of the following best describes how the rise of a national market economy contributed to the major reform movements of the early nineteenth century? [choose all that apply]

-the nation became more interconnected and communicative -Americans began to feel more connected to the nation as a whole -the rise of the middle class allowed for more leisure time among many people

In the nineteenth century, which of the following was true of attitudes of the North?

-they saw the South as a backward portion of the United States who practiced something that was a scar on the American character - they were not willing to risk the Union to end the institution of slavery - they wanted the end of slavery, but did not advocate racial equality