Chapter 12

(Q011) This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press.

Elijah P. Lovejoy

(Q035) Free blacks drew upon what political office to justify "birthright citizenship"?

House of representatives

(Q032) In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.

Margaret Fuller

(Q015) Which of the following was a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?

Owen promoted communitarianism as a way of making sure workers received the full value of their labor.

(Q046) In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.

True

(Q002) The American Colonization Society called for

a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.

(Q018) The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that

both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement.

(Q030) The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish

common schools

(Q008) Robert Owen's utopian society promoted this idea to allow workers to receive the full value of their labor.

communitarianism

(Q041) The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, directed its efforts to redeeming habitual drunkards, not the occasional social drinker.

false

(Q043) Horace Mann argued that it was not a school's responsibility to reinforce social stability by rescuing students from the influence of parents who failed to instill the proper discipline in their children.

false

(Q033) According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must

go to work outside the home

(Q027) Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of

more humane treatment of the insane.

(Q007) Which of the following was an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

political party conventions

(Q038) Free blacks were regularly excluded from

taverns

(Q056) Many Americans saw the reform impulse as an attack on their own freedom, particularly the temperance movement.

true

(Q019) America's first black newspaper was called

Freedom's Journal

(Q004) Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s.

Shakers

(Q054) Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female abolitionist orators in the country during her time.

True

(Q010) "Gentlemen of property and standing" were

merchants with close commercial ties to the South