American Yawp quiz 1 (exam 2)

during which era was a laborer LEAST likely to live with their employer?

1812-1840

american antislavery shifted from gradualism to immediatism during which decade?

1830s

which of the following statements best describes the status of Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening?

Americans were turning away from Calvinism during the Second Great Awakening

immigrants from which country farmed in rural areas of the old northwest and practiced trades in the growing communities of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Milwaukee?

Germany

which benevolent movement enjoyed the most success during the 1820s?

Temperance

the ¨gag rule¨ was designed to eliminate the voice of which group in Congress?

abolitionists

Transcendentalism initially began among which group?

american clergymen

which was the term for a region in the state of NY greatly affected by the revivals of the Second Great Awakening?

burned over district

The Know-Nothing party defined itself as opposing what groups?

catholics and immigrants

which of the following descriptions most accurately describes ¨disinterested benevolence¨?

christianity requires that a person give up self-love in favor of loving others

which of the following denominations benefits the least from the Second Great Awakening?

congregationalists

what was the primary cause of the 1839 division in the American Antislavery Society?

disagreements over the usefulness of electoral politics and the importance of women's rights

The market revolution brought an innovation in labor practices called ¨piece work¨ What is the piece work system?

division of production into discrete steps performed by different workers

which of the following had the greatest impact on the spread of slavery?

invention of the cotton gin

the erie canal connected industry and consumers in the east with what group?

midwestern farmers

irish immigrants to the US typically settled in what areas?

northeastern cities

most northern abolition laws

only promised to liberate future children born to an enslaved mother

which of the following ideals represented an American innovation in 19th century Atlantic intellectual trends?

orientation toward the future rather than the past

which group of women was most likely to work outside of the house in antebellum America?

poor women

how did the market revolution change the nature of the American family?

the domestic sphere increasingly signified a family's class status

what was the initial purpose of the legal status of incorporation?

to fund projects for the public good

in the 1840s the New England Association of Farmers, Merchants and Other Workingmen organized to agitate for what cause?

to limit the workday to ten hours per day

which of the following came first?

women began forming antislavery societies

female activists used which of the following expectations of gender to justify social activism?

women were expected to be the moral caretakers of the home and therefore it was their duty to speak out on moral issues