Chapter 6 History Tes

Many southerners saw abolitionism as an attack on their way of life and defended the institution of slavery because they

B. Believed it was the was the key to the economy in their region

The set of ideas known as "true womanhood" evolved from the belief that woman should be homemakers and should take responsibility for

B. Developing their children's characters

At the same time President Jackson took office, the second bank of the United States played an important role in

B. Keeping the money supply of the United States stable

The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the idea that

B. Only a chosen few could attain grace through faith

President Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed that it

B. Opened up the government more to ordinary people

Underlying the prison reform movement was a belief in

B. Rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up

An association focusing on spreading the word of God and combating social problems

Benevolent society

Supporters of gradualism believed that the first step in ending slavery should be to

C. Stop new slaves from being brought into the country

Religious group that grew rapidly in the 1830s and believed God intends to save everyone.

Caucus System

A system in which members of a political party meet to choose their party's candidate for president or decide policy

Caucus system

In the North, citizens — the abolitionist movement

D. Did not know much about

In his inaugural address, president Andrew Jackson Declared his intention to

D. Move all native Americans to colonize Africa

As a result of the efforts of Dorothea Dix and other reformers, more than a dozen states entered sweeping prison reforms during the 1840s and created special institutions for

D. The mentally ill

The act or process of freeing enslaved persons

Emancipation

The theory that slavery should be ended gradually

Gradualism

Organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention, which marked the beginning of an organized women's movement.

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

President elected after Andrew Jackson who presided over the panic of 1837

Martin Van Buren

Practice adopted by Jacksonians of selecting presidential candidates at a meeting of state delegates.

National nominating convention

Hostility toward immigrants

Nativism

The idea that states had the right to declare federal laws invalid

Nullification

Prison whose purpose is to reform prisoners

Penitentiary

A literary artistic and philosophical movement in the late 1700s ad early 1800s emphasizing the imagination the emotions and the individual above society

Romanticism

To leave or withdraw

Secede

Act of withdrawing from the union, as South Carolinians threatened to do over the Tarrif of Abominations.

Secession

The practice of handing out government jobs to supporters replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters

Spoils system

The right to vote

Suffrage

Moderation in or abstinence from consuming alcohol

Temperance

A philosophy stressing the relationship between human beings and nature spiritual things over material things and the importance of the individual conscience

Transcendentalism

Religious group whose members reject the idea that Jesus Christ was the son of God and believe that God is a unity, not a trinity.

Unitarians

A community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers

Utopia

Abolitionist who published The Liberator and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

William Lloyd Garrison

First well known advocate of abolition, published the pamphlet appeal to the colored citizens of the world.

David Walker

In the 1830s, the abolitionists movement drew strength from the second great awakening because abolitionists saw slavery as

A. An evil for which the nation needed to repent

While most Irish immigrants arriving in the United States between 1815 and 1860 had no money and few marketable skills, immigrants from Germany generally

A. Had enough money to buy land

Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be freed

A. Immediately without compensation to former slaveholders

The people who formed utopian communities believed that

A. Society corrupted human nature

The immediate ending of slavery

Abolition