Hist 17A Chapter 12

Abolitionists consciously identified their movement with the heritage of the American Revolution.

True

Abolitionists were among the first to appreciate the key role of public opinion in a mass democracy, focusing their efforts on awakening the nation to the moral evil of slavery.

True

Black abolitionists articulated the ideal of color-blind citizenship more than most white contemporaries.

True

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin gave the abolitionist message a powerful human appeal as it was based on the life of the fugitive slave Josiah Henson.

True

In 1817, free blacks assembled in Philadelphia for the first national black convention

True

Institutions like jails, mental hospitals, and public schools were inspired by the conviction that those who passed through their doors could eventually be released to become productive, self-disciplined citizens.

True

Mob attacks and attempts to limit abolitionists' freedom of speech convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans.

True

Nearly all abolitionists, despite their militant language, rejected violence as a means of ending slavery.

True

The Shakers believed God had a dual personality, both male and female.

True

The abolitionist movement split in two in part because Abby Kelley had been appointed to an office within the American Anti-Slavery Society, which angered some men who believed it was wrong for women to occupy such a prominent position.

True

"Perfectionism" was the idea that:

improving society was not possible.

Although it lasted only a few years, the New Harmony community:

influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates.

The gag rule:

prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions

In David Walker's An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, all of the following were true EXCEPT that he: Select one: a. warned against divine punishment. b. advocated force in ending slavery. c. promoted colonization for ex-slaves. d. condemned racism. e. took pride in African societies.

promoted colonization for ex-slaves.

The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:

prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans.

Horace Mann believed that public schools would

provide an avenue for social advancement.

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

was primarily an independent one, as they regularly held their own conventions.

Abolitionists said property rights were more important than personal liberty.

False

As women began to take an active role in abolition, public speaking for women became socially acceptable to most Americans.

False

By 1860, all but two states had established tax-supported school systems for its children.

False

Dorothea Dix devoted her life to the cause of temperance, founding the American Temperance Organization

False

In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement.

False

Many abolitionists were fairly violent, and they attempted to aggressively convince the slaveholder of his sinful ways.

False

Most African-Americans enthusiastically favored the colonization idea and moving to Africa.

False

The American Temperance Society directed its efforts at the drunkards, but not the occasional drinker.

False

The Mormons under Joseph Smith strongly supported the principle of separation of church and state.

False

The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South.

False

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as women's "sphere."

False

Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

Frederick Douglass

At the end of their trek, Mormons led by Brigham Young founded:

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Members of which one of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

Catholics

The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice, freedom, and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

True

Theodore Weld had been influenced by preacher Charles G. Finney.

True

To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture, reform became a badge of respectability.

True

William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.

Many reform movements:

drew inspiration from the Second Great Awakening.