SS Ch 8: Life in Antebellum America (1807-1861)

Which group first popularized art museums and landscape paintings?

Hudson River School

Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave known for his writing and great speeches, wrote _____.

The North Star

What was the Clermont?

The first commercial steam ship in the U.S.

How did the environmental differences of the North and the South of the U.S. impact their economies in the antebellum period?

The rivers in the North powered machinery and the climate in the South enabled the production of cash crops.

Which of the following would most likely have been a popular attraction in the antebellum era?

A circus act

David Walker, who predated the Abolitionist Movement and advocated violence in ending slavery wrote _____.

An Appeal in Four Articles

Dorothea Dix was important for her work in what movement in the antebellum era?

Asylums for the mentally ill

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote _____.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Brook Farm and the Oneida colony were both examples of which of the following?

Utopian societies

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott advocated for women's rights after their involvement in what other reform movement?

Abolition

What industry did John Deere and Cyrus McCormick work in?

Farm technology

William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti Slavery Society, wrote _____.

The Liberator

In early America, why were enslaved people from Caribbean the preferred choice when compared to Native Americans?

They had low escape possibilities.

In the interior of the nation, which was the most important means of shipping in the early 19th century?

Canals

Why did the North focus its efforts on industrialization rather than cash crops during the antebellum era?

A combination of climate advantages in the South, and the large-scale farming moving out West forced the North to rely on a commercial economy rather than agriculture.

In the U.S. antebellum period, slaves in the task system worked until the task was completed. Which type of slave was most likely to work under the task system?

A field hand on a rice plantation

Why would most Americans have been unlikely to read a Douay Bible in the 19th century?

Because it is a Catholic translation and most Americans were Protestant.

Why were workers often and easily fired during the 1830s?

Because there were plenty of immigrants who were necessitating jobs.

Which of the following compares the slave revolt led by Denmark Vesey with that of Nat Turner?

Denmark Vesey was killed before his revolt could be carried out while Nat Turner was executed after killing 60 whites.

Where did public schools exist in early America?

Massachusetts

After mid-century, which was the most important means of transportation through the interior of the nation?

Railroads

Who was an artist that revolutionized communications technology?

Samuel Morse

The temperance movement was also linked with...

Anti-immigrant feelings

Which of these authors wrote for girls on themes such as femininity?

Louisa May Alcott

Which of the following is true regarding the industrial experience of the Lowell Girls versus that of the immigrants?

Lowell girls had plenty to eat whereas immigrants were in poor conditions.

The platform of the Abolitionist movement wanted

to achieve immediate emancipation of all enslaved people and the ending of racial segregation without the use of violence.