APUSH Chapter 11

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Experience in which movement helped the Grimké sisters become advocates for the equality of men and women?

Abolition

Who were the major financial backers of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

Arthur and Lewis Tappan

After the murder of Joseph Smith, who led Mormon settlers to the Great Salt Lake Valley?

Brigham Young

How did Shaker communities become self-sustaining and even comfortable?

By perfecting their crafts

Who encouraged Congress to restrict abolitionist use of the mail system?

Andrew Jackson

What was one of the strategies that evangelical abolitionists used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?

Bombarding Congress with petitions to end slavery

Phalanxes were based on the ideas of which French utopian?

Charles Fourier

John Humphrey Noyes embraced which strategy as a means to liberate individuals and reform relations between men and women?

Complex marriage

Why did Dorothea Dix lobby the Massachusetts legislature for an enlargement of the state hospital for mental patients?

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

Who convinced one state legislature after another to expand state hospitals in order to accommodate the mentally ill beginning in the 1840s?

Dorothea Dix

What practice did the Shakers adopt as a result of their belief that God was both male and female?

Eliminating gender distinctions

Which leader of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What was Ralph Waldo Emerson's central message about what the individual had to "transcend"?

Existing customs

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson encourage listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality?

He wanted them to experience self-realization.

What did Godey's Lady's Book teach its readers in the mid-nineteenth century?

How to beautify their homes

What aspect of transcendentalism is seen in Henry David Thoreau's statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

Individualism

Why did Brook Farm fail?

It was unable to become economically self-sufficient.

What feminist wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century and, in 1844, proclaimed a new era of gender relations?

Margaret Fuller

Which statement summarizes the publication of Herman Melville's Moby Dick?

Middle-class readers rejected the dark narrative.

What was the most popular form of urban entertainment in the United States between 1820 and 1860?

Minstrel shows

What two major works of the 1850s lauded social restraint and criticized individualism?

Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter

Why did the Virginia assembly reject a bill providing for the gradual emancipation and colonization abroad of African Americans in 1831?

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

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?

Provided moral support for recovering alcoholics

What was a strategy that evangelical abolitionists used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?

Publicizing the evils of slavery

Attacks on abolitionist meetings and newspaper offices revealed what underlying factor in white American society?

Racism

What former minister who moved to Concord, Massachusetts, was the leading voice of transcendentalism?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the 1840s, approximately one thousand escaped slaves reached freedom in northern states or Canada each year in what way?

Receiving help from the Underground Railroad

Why were most teachers women by the 1850s?

School boards believed that women were better suited for the profession.

Why did young girls in mid-nineteenth century cities turn to prostitution?

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

To whom did Brook Farm primarily appeal?

Teachers, writers, and students

Which of the following is suggested by the illustration that accompanied David Walker's An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)?

That blacks on earth had a divine right to justice and liberty

country would most likely be called the "Cotton Belt"?

The area with a slave population of 50 percent or more from Georgia to Texas

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?

The lyceum

Which statement explains the popularity of minstrelsy after 1830?

The shows united white Americans in their sense of superiority over blacks

How did northern white populations respond to African Americans' efforts to gain "respectability" in the early republic?

They lashed out violently.

William Lloyd Garrison's insistence on broadening the abolitionist agenda split the organization by pushing out which group?

Those who did not support women's rights

Henry David Thoreau named his most famous book after which location, where he went to experiment with a life of self-reliance?

Walden Pond

Perfectionists of the early 1800s believed that freedom from sin was possible

because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.


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