Chapter 11 AP US History
Underground Railroad
By the 1840s, approximately one thousand escaped slaves reached freedom in northern states or Canada each year in what way?
Prostitution
Moral reform was primarily a women's movement to attack what problem?
Charles Fourier
Phalanxes were based on the ideas of which French utopian?
Minstrel shows
What was the most popular form of urban entertainment in the United States between 1820 and 1860?
They lashed out violently
How did northern white populations respond to African Americans' efforts to gain "respectability" in the early republic?
Emphasis on traditional patriarchal authority
The Mormons differed from other communal experiments in their
Teachers, writers, and students
To whom did Brook Farm primarily appeal?
Women's loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage
What did women reformers refer to when they spoke about "domestic slavery" in the 1840s?
Lyceum
What movement, which was launched in 1826, hosted lectures and discussions in many different towns and counted Ralph Waldo Emerson as its most popular speaker?
Eliminating gender distinctions
What practice did the Shakers adopt as a result of their belief that God was both male and female?
Moby Dick and The Scarlett Letter
What two major works of the 1850s lauded social restraint and criticized individualism?
Horace Mann
Which individual was an early public education reformer active in the nineteenth century?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Which leader of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
He wanted them to experience self-realization.
Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson encourage listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality?
The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.
Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?
Nat Turner's Rebellion had raised the fear of black violence.
Why did the Virginia assembly reject a bill providing for the gradual emancipation and colonization abroad of African Americans in 1831?