History Chapter 12 review quiz

As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.

False

Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.

False

In lecturing the public, Sojourner Truth exclaimed "and aren't I a woman" to reinforce the traditional roles of women.

False

Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?

Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.

Which was not true of Brook Farm?

It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century

Why did Abby Kelly leave her infant?

She felt black mothers could not be with their babies as long as slavery was in practice, so she worked toward the goal of abolitionism for her child to be brought up in a "free" country.

According to the Shakers, God had a "dual" personality, encompassing both male and female sexes.

True

Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.

True

In the decades before the Civil War, several thousand black Americans did emigrate to Liberia with the aid of the American Colonization Society.

True

John Humphrey Noyes felt his followers had become so perfect that they had actually achieved a state of complete "purity of heart," or sinlessness

True

The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called

abolitionism

The Liberty Bell took on its name-previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell-after

abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery

The largest effort at educational institution building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish

common schools

The American Tract Society, the American Bible Society, and other groups flooded these areas with copies of the gospel and pamphlets promoting religious virtue.

eastern cities and the western frontier

By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.

false

According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," women must

go to work outside the home

Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

political party conventions

The greatest evil in American society at first appeared to attract the least attention from the reformers— _________.

slavery

Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

tariff reform

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on

the Declaration of Independence.

America's first black newspaper was called

Freedom's Journal

Shakers were so named because they engaged in frenzied dancing.

True

The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by

William Lloyd Garrison

At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant

any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.

Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of

more humane treatment of the insane