APUSH - Learning Curve Chapter 11

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

By perfecting their crafts

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.

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

Existing customs

Based on this chart, which of the following may have contributed to the largest surge of immigration in the nineteenth century?

External factors

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

What statement describes the Mormon practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century?

It was opposed by some within their church as well as non-Mormon Christians outside it.

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

What was Margaret Fuller's most significant contribution to transcendental philosophy?

She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence.

Based on this map, which area of the country would most likely be called the "Cotton Belt"?

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

Which statement explains the popularity of minstrelsy after 1830?

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

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

The Mormons differed from other communal experiments in their

emphasis on traditional patriarchal authority.

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

Abolition

How did African Americans of the urban North aim to accomplish social uplift from the 1790s onward?

Through temperance and hard work

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

Bombarding Congress with petitions to end slavery

How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844?

By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress

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

He wanted them to experience self-realization.

Why did Brook Farm fail?

It was unable to become economically self-sufficient.

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

Middle-class readers rejected the dark narrative.

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.

Moral reform was primarily a women's movement to attack what problem?

Prostitution

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 did the Mormon community in Utah succeed?

Shared hard work

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?

The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.

Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?

They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.

What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?

Women should focus on domestic life, not public life.

Critics of transcendentalism, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, focused on

the perils of excessive individualism.