APUSH Chapter 11 LC

How did northern white populations respond to African Americans' efforts to gain "respectability" in the early republic?

They pushed for civil rights reform. They lashed out violently. They welcomed the initiative. They ignored them. They lashed out violently

What was one of the strategies that evangelical abolitionists used to attack slavery beginning in the 1830s?

Funding publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Converting slaves to Christianity so they would be freed Assisting Nat Turner in his slave rebellion Bombarding Congress with petitions to end slavery Bombarding Congress with petitions to end slavery

John Humphrey Noyes embraced which strategy as a means to liberate individuals and reform relations between men and women?

Gender equality Companionate marriage Celibacy Complex marriage Complex marriage

After the murder of Joseph Smith, who led Mormon settlers to the Great Salt Lake Valley?

Brigham Young David Walker Lyman Beecher Joseph Smith III Brigham Young

Which leader of the women's rights movement of the nineteenth century organized the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

Catherine Beecher Susan B. Anthony Sarah Grimké Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What practice did the Shakers adopt as a result of their belief that God was both male and female?

Celibacy Eliminating gender distinctions Abstinence from alcohol Pacifism Eliminating gender distinctions

What was Ralph Waldo Emerson's central message about what the individual had to "transcend"?

Existing customs Materialism Faith One's parents Existing customs

What was one reason that John Humphrey Noyes, the founder of the Oneida Community, rejected monogamy?

He hoped that rejecting monogamy would lead to celibacy. He wanted to limit women's freedom by tying them to more than one husband. He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands. He wanted to quickly increase the population of the community through communal marriage. He hoped to free women from their status as the property of their husbands.

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson encourage listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality?

He wanted them to seek individual wealth through hard work. He wanted them to experience self-realization. He wanted them to join moral reform movements for temperance, maintain the Sabbath, and support the abolition of slavery. He wanted them to experience an evangelical Christian conversion experience He wanted them to experience self-realization.

What former minister who moved to Concord, Massachusetts, was the leading voice of transcendentalism?

Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson Walt Whitman Charles Grandison Finney Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why did Brook Farm fail?

It attracted intellectuals with few practical skills. It was attacked by antiabolitionists. It promoted leisure, which prevented needed work from being done. It was unable to become economically self-sufficient. It was unable to become economically self-sufficient.

Which statement summarizes the publication of Herman Melville's Moby Dick?

Middle-class readers rejected the dark narrative. It helped gain support for the abolitionist movement. Like many famous novels at the time, it first appeared in a serial publication in newspapers across the country. A commercial success, it catapulted Melville to fame. Middle-class readers rejected the dark narrative.

What was Margaret Fuller's most significant contribution to transcendental philosophy?

She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence. She edited the journal, The Dial, which helped spread transcendentalism. She wrote the transcendentalist treatise, Leaves of Grass. She helped compose the Seneca Falls Declaration. She believed that men and women were equally capable of transcendence.

What aspect of transcendentalism is seen in Henry David Thoreau's statement, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"?

Social responsibility Spirituality Individualism Communion with nature Individualism

The national women's rights convention of 1851 declared that which of the following was the cornerstone of the goals of the women's movements?

Suffrage Moral reform Abolition Property rights Suffrage

In what area did Susan B. Anthony gain success in 1860 in her campaign for women's rights?

Suffrage Social equality Employment opportunity Economic rights Economic rights

Which of the following is suggested by the illustration that accompanied David Walker's An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)?

That a black Moses received the Ten Commandments from God That blacks on earth had a divine right to justice and liberty That Jesus was most likely of African descent That African Americans were going to avenge the crucifixion of Jesus That blacks on earth had a divine right to justice and liberty

What was the name of the informal network of whites and free blacks in cities throughout the South that aided escaped slaves in their painstaking journey north?

The Northern Express The Liberator The Anti-Slavery Society The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad

Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?

The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency. The middle class was already involved in moral reform. The middle class was the most likely to promote abolitionism. The middle class had already rejected organized religion. The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.

Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?

They gathered extremely large followings. They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions. They pushed American crafts to new artistic levels. They explicitly addressed questions of racial inequality. They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.

How did abolitionist women frequently violate social taboos in the 1830s?

They went out drinking without male company. They attended minstrel show performances in northeastern cities. They lived with men they had not married. They spoke to mixed audiences that included men and women. They spoke to mixed audiences that included men and women.

What effect did Albert Brisbane believe that the formation of groups called phalanxes would have on gender relations?

They would liberate women. They would eliminate marriage. They would instill the communal values of polygamy. They would create a patriarchal society. They would liberate women.

How did African Americans of the urban North aim to accomplish social uplift from the 1790s onward?

Through temperance and hard work Through petitions to city councils With militant self-defense With civil rights campaigns Through temperance and hard work

The Mormons differed from other communal experiments in their

practice of celibacy. emphasis on individualism. practice of complex marriage. emphasis on traditional patriarchal authority. emphasis on traditional patriarchal authority.