Ch 10 Pre-Test

John Humphrey Noyes embraced which strategy as a means to liberate individuals and reform relations between men and women? Celibacy Complex marriage Companionate marriage Gender equality

Complex marriage

How did antislavery advocates immediately after the American Revolution differ from antislavery advocates from the 1820s onward? Geographic location Religion Goals Citizenship

Goals

Why, at least partially, did the southern free black community settle in the port cities? By law, blacks found in the South's interior, near plantations, were slaves. Because European immigrants avoided the South, skilled positions were available in the ports. Slaves could not be employed in the shipping and manufacturing trades. The Free African Societies encouraged free blacks to work in southern port cities.

Because European immigrants avoided the South, skilled positions were available in the ports.

How did leading African Americans in the North hope to elevate blacks to an equal social status with whites after the 1790s? -By fomenting southern slave rebellions -By securing respectability -By joining the British antislavery movement -By securing the right to vote

By securing respectability

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. Dix objected to the fact that mentally ill women were jailed alongside men. 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.

Who convinced one state legislature after another to expand state hospitals to accommodate the mentally ill beginning in the 1840s? Dorothea Dix Lydia Finney Sarah Grimké Susan B. Anthony

Dorothea Dix

to answer the following question. Click the image to view full-size. The locations of utopian communities on this map demonstrate the importance of what transportation improvement in spreading ideas as well as goods? Erie Canal Underground Railroad Oregon Trail Mormon Trail

Erie Canal

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

Existing customs

to answer the following question. Click the image to view full-size. This image suggests that women learned which of the following subjects during their education? Mathematics Geography Religion Languages

Geography

What was one reason that John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, rejected monogamy? He hoped that rejecting monogamy would lead to celibacy. He wanted to quickly increase the population of the community through communal marriage. He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands. He wanted to limit women's freedom by tying them to more than one husband.

He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands.

With which group from the Bible did African American slaves of the early 1800s identify? -Hebrew prophets, who carried the word of God -The disciples of Jesus, who spread the faith to others -Early Christian martyrs, who had died for their faith -Israelites, who had been liberated by God

Israelites, who had been liberated by God

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

It was unable to become economically self-sufficient.

How was Mormonism a distinctly American faith? Joseph Smith encouraged practices that led to individual success. The Mormon Church was the only one to embrace democratic equality. Mormonism integrated the New World into the Judeo-Christian tradition. Unlike other churches, Mormonism was founded by an American.

Mormonism integrated the New World into the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Why did the Virginia assembly reject a bill providing for the gradual emancipation and colonization abroad of African Americans in 1831? Virginia cotton planters were deeply entrenched in plantation slavery. Nat Turner's Rebellion had raised the fear of black violence. It struck opponents of slavery as too little too late. Congress had offered the South a better fugitive law instead.

Nat Turner's Rebellion had raised the fear of black violence

to answer the following question. Click the image to view full-size. How does this satirical almanac cover embrace the rampant racism also inherent in minstrel shows of the middle of the nineteenth century? Phonetic spelling African musical instruments Smiling faces Portrayal of irresponsibility

Phonetic spelling

Moral reform was primarily a women's movement to attack what problem? Prostitution Alcoholism Slavery Enforcing the Sabbath

Prostitution

In Springfield, Illinois, in 1842, Abraham Lincoln, then a young politician, praised members of the Washington Temperance Society because they "teach hope to all—despair to none. As applying to their cause, they deny the doctrine of unpardonable sin." What had the Washingtonians done to earn Lincoln's praise? Fought against slavery in the South Provided moral support for recovering alcoholics Built utopian communities in the Midwest Campaigned for women's rights

Provided moral support for recovering alcoholics

What former minister who moved to Concord, Massachusetts, was the leading voice of transcendentalism? -Henry David Thoreau -Walt Whitman -Ralph Waldo Emerson -Charles Grandison Finney

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How did the Universalist Church, which rose in New England during the Second Great Awakening, differ from the Congregationalist faith long established there? Rejection of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination Embrace of abolition as a goal Desire to unify Protestant and Catholic churches Closer ties to Quakerism

Rejection of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination

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

School boards believed that women were better suited for the profession

Why did the Mormon community in Utah succeed? Better soil and climate for agriculture than in earlier areas they settled Discovery of gold and silver on their land Inspired leadership of their founder Shared hard work

Shared hard work

What was Margaret Fuller's most significant contribution to transcendental philosophy? She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence. She helped compose the Seneca Falls Declaration. She edited the journal The Dial, which helped spread transcendentalism. She wrote the transcendentalist treatise Leaves of Grass.

She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence.

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

Some poor young women did not like the alternative ways of making a living.

Why did revivalist preachers in the South tend to take a fairly conservative social tone? Their ideas of equality angered white southern males, who dominated society in the South. Revivalism was generally a conservative movement. Southern legislatures passed laws constraining what they could say. Conservative preachers gravitated to the South.

Their ideas of equality angered white southern males, who dominated society in the South.

Why did many educated Congregationalists in New England rename themselves "Unitarians" in the early nineteenth century? They believed that true faith made the individual one with God. They wanted a unification of the various Protestant denominations. They discarded the concept of the Trinity and worshipped a "united" God. They advocated a religion that incorporated U.S. nationalism.

They discarded the concept of the Trinity and worshipped a "united" God.

Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based? Upper-class professionals who attempted to extend elite culture to the white working class Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure Native American and Asian American interactions in cities Thousands of British immigrants to the United States

Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure

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

What was the point of the "separate spheres" ideology promoted in the mid-nineteenth century? -Women should be housed separately from men in prisons and institutions for the mentally ill. -Women and men in reform movements should hold separate meetings. -Whites and blacks belonged in separate spheres of society. -Women should focus on domestic life, not public life.

Women should focus on domestic life, not public life

James Gordon Bennett's newspaper, The New York Herald, was so successful because it was pitched to a select audience. fought corruption in city hall. embraced sensational journalism. asserted Jewish identity in a changing world.

embraced sensational journalism