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
Transcendentalism initially began among which group?
American clergymen
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
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
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
Which of the following came first?
Women began forming antislavery societies
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.