Chapter 11 Test APUSH
Before the Civil War, women in the state of New York achieved all of the following except
the right to vote
Urban popular culture was a product of
thousands of young rural people who flocked to cities in search of fortune and adventure
Women's involvement in moral reform was evidence of their desire
to extend their moral authority outside the home
Emerson's ideas most closely resembled
Charles Grandison Finney's "moral free agency"
Arthur Brisbane promoted the concepts of cooperative work and the phalanx in
The Social Destiny of Man
Brook Farm failed economically in large part because it
attracted intellectuals with few practical skills
Perfectionists believed that freedom from sin was possible
because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred
Margret Fuller's greatest contribution to transcendental philosophy was her
belief that women were as capable of, and deserving of, transcendence as men
Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged listeners and readers to seek transcendence beyond the limits or ordinary existence because he wanted them to
celebrate individualism and energize the American split
Ideas that the Shakers supported include all of the following except
complex marriage
William Lloyd Garrison insistence on broadening the abolitionist agend split the organization by pushing out those who
did not support women's rights
Moral reform was primarily a women's movement to
end prostitution
Herman Melville came to the conclusion that extreme individualism led to
madness and death
The Mormon practice of polygamy
opposed by some Mormons as well as by non-Mormon Christians
The most common response of white Americans to the abolition movement was
opposition to the movement
Both moral reformers and women's rights activists focused their energies primarily on helping
other women
The campaign for abolition inspired women to seek equal rights because
slavery gave them a point of comparison for their own condition
Between 1836 and 1844, the federal government responded to abolition by
surpressing the debate of antislavery petitions in Congress
