(HIST-1877) Chapter 10 LearningCurve
In addition to the growth of coastal cities, where did boomtowns emerge in the early to mid-nineteenth century?
Along inland waterways
Which of the following people was an especially effective advocate against slavery because of having grown up in a slave-owning family in the South?
Angelina Grimké
How did the ideas of French socialist Charles Fourier influence American utopian societies in the 1840s?
George Ripley organized the transcendentalist community Brook Farm according to Fourier's concept of "phalanxes."
Why was Henry David Thoreau imprisoned for a night in 1846?
He had refused to pay taxes in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War.
Which of the following best describes the cult of domesticity that emerged in the new American middle class from the 1820s on?
It restricted women to the home and to social and charitable responsibilities.
Why did the Oneida community of central New York provoke public outrage in the 1840s?
Its beliefs regarding marriage and childrearing
Which of the following is true of the National Trades Union formed in 1834?
Its delegates represented more than twenty-five thousand workers across the North.
During the Second Great Awakening, workingmen and -women were mostly drawn to the preaching of which Christian denomination?
Baptist
What did the artists of the Hudson River School have in common with the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Both emphasized the power of nature in their work
How did middle-class men contribute to the consumer economy in the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States?
By making investments in commercial ventures
How did the new type of cheap tabloid newspapers in the United States woo readers in the 1840s?
By publishing sensational stories of sex and crime
Why did urban violence in the United States increase in the 1840s?
Economic competition for scarce resources increased urban violence.
What distinguished the textile factories of Lowell, Massachusetts, founded by the Boston Associates in the 1820s?
Every step of their production was mechanized.
Why did many abolitionist leaders not share Amy Post's enthusiastic support for the publication and distribution of Frederick Douglass's North Star?
Many abolitionists still believed blacks were inferior to whites.
Which business was instrumental in the formation of the antislavery movement in the nineteenth century?
Publishing
What drove immigration to the United States from Germany and Scandinavia in the 1840s and 1850s?
Repressive landlords
What brought audiences of all classes together in American theaters in the 1830s?
Shakespeare
Why did news travel more quickly in the United States in the 1840s?
Telegraph lines allowed for far quicker information transfers.
Why did 300 abolitionists walk out of a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AAAS) in 1839?
The AASS allowed women to attend closed meetings with men.
Why did the residents of Rochester feel increasingly concerned about their town in the late 1820s?
The boomtown growth raised fears about the rising tide of sin.
Which of the following is true about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the 1830s and 1840s?
The church was guided by The Book of Mormon as well as the Bible.
What did Irish immigrants and free black workers have in common in nineteenth-century cities?
They competed for jobs at the bottom of the economic ladder.
How did factory owners respond to the panic of 1837?
They mechanized with technologies like the power loom.
Why were skilled workers offended by the factory work organization of the 1830s?
They were treated as dependents rather than independent craftsmen.
Why did farm families in early-nineteenth-century New England send their daughters to work in textile factories?
To earn cash for the growing market economy
How did work at the Lowell mills change over the course of the nineteenth century?
Wages fell and hours lengthened.
How did the growing cohort of salaried clerks and managers of the 1820s and after hope to achieve upward mobility?
With hard work
What made the formation of the first political workingmen's party in Philadelphia a sensible move for workers in 1827?
Workingmen gained the right to vote at that time.
The efforts of moral reformers against prostitution in the 1840s included
petitions for harsh punishments of men.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850)—one of America's first mass-produced books—illustrated
the social ostracism suffered by women who bore a child out of wedlock.
A New England farm girl seeking adventure away from home in the early nineteenth century might sign up to
work in a Lowell mill.
