History 1301- chapter 12 quiz

What might even veterans of Britain's Emancipation Act of 1833 have said in response to the demands of the 1830s abolitionists?

"You are utterly disregarding private property rights."

The mid-nineteenth-century reform organization that challenged a gendered double standard when it came to sexual morality was the

American Female Moral Reform Society.

Which group in the United States in the 1850s was anti-Catholic and non-nativist?

German immigrants

Which of the following abolitionists would have tried to win over key members of Congress for legislation softening fugitive slave laws?

Gerrit Smith

What position held by William Lloyd Garrison was considered too radical even by most Northern opponents of slavery?

He embraced interracial marriage.

Who was the chief proponent of tuition-free common schools in the Northern part of the United States in the 1840s?

Horace Mann

Which of the following would be true of an 1831 edition of Godey's Lady's Book?

It had an important influence on women's culture and middle-class taste at the time.

For many Northerners, which of the following looked like a significant obstacle to reform in the antebellum period?

Catholicism

Without the disastrous proliferation of a potato fungus in Ireland in 1845,

Catholicism would not have become the largest religious denomination in the United States by the mid-1850s.

Which statement about Christmas in the United States before 1820 is true?

Christmas was not for Christians, not for families, and not for kids.

What group served as an early enforcer of respectability in the business world?

Lewis Tappan's Mercantile Agency

Which state in the 1830s instituted a mandatory period of time before a criminal convicted of a capital offense could be executed?

Maine

Why did the new middle class Americans of the first half of the nineteenth century think of manual workers as a potential threat to the social order?

Manual workers no longer lived in the same neighborhoods as their middle-class counterparts.

Which of the following utopian communities would have been of interest to middle-class Americans disaffected by the institution of marriage?

New Harmony

Which of the following is true of Angelina Grimké?

She was the author of the Appeal to the Christian Women of the South.

Why did the Garrisonians not understand the objections of people, such as James Birney, to the inclusion of women in abolitionist work?

The Garrisonians understood the purpose of their work as that of moral suasion.

Which statement best describes mid-nineteenth-century slave narratives?

They were abolitionist tracts designed to persuade readers of the evils of slavery.

Who founded New Harmony in Indiana in 1825?

a Scottish industrialist with qualms about the factory system

Who would most likely have been among those adamantly insisting on maintaining corporal punishment in the U.S. Navy?

a U.S. House representative from South Carolina

The campaigns against prostitution, for temperance, and against masturbation had in common

a focus on self-control.

Which place would have most likely seen consistently high levels of alcohol consumption by the 1850s?

a neighborhood in New Orleans

A leather-bound book containing minute details on the commercial conduct of hundreds of different individuals in 1850s Brooklyn would most likely be

a record from the nation's first credit bureau.

The notion of separate spheres among the American middle class of the nineteenth century can best be described as

a reform idea.

Middle-class Americans of the mid-nineteenth century would have seen which of the following women as manipulative and domineering?

an older washer woman

Sobriety advocates attempting to win over audiences in the 1840s and 1850s did NOT

cite public health statistics.

Compared to the traditional household patriarchs of previous generations, the husbands and fathers of the new American middle class saw their power in the family

decline.

The cult of domesticity relied heavily on the availability of

domestic servants.

The cult of domesticity emphasized women's roles in which of the following?

educating children

Considering how Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary worked, it is safe to conclude that reformers wanted criminals to

find reform within themselves.

The new generation of abolitionist reformers of the 1830s and 1840s were distinguished by their insistence on ________ abolition.

immediate

Where did an anti-abolitionist mob murder the abolitionist minister and editor Elijah Lovejoy in 1837?

in Alton, Illinois

Where did women's rights advocates of the 1840s first get their training in organizing, fundraising, lecturing, and pamphleteering?

in the abolitionist movement

Which of the following triggered the 1840 schism of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

increasing participation by female abolitionists

What did reformers mean when they referred to the "secret vice"?

masturbation

The separation of spheres proved so influential that it even shaped

middle-class architecture.

The lyceum movement was to the American middle class of the early nineteenth century what the ________ is to the American middle class of the twenty-first century.

movie theater

The most respectable masculine space within the new world of separate spheres was the

office

The riots outside of Philadelphia in 1844 had their origins primarily in

religious differences.

Which factor did NOT contribute to a surge in anti-Catholicism in the 1830s?

secret dealings of the pope in Rome

The Irish immigrants who arrived in the nation's Northeast in the 1830s and later came primarily from

southern and western Ireland.

Protestants and Catholics in 1840s America argued over

students reading the King James Bible without guidance.

Who were of primary concern to reformers like Sylvester Graham?

teenage boys

Who put a price on William Lloyd Garrison's head to capture him for criminal prosecution?

the Georgia legislature

Which of the following was one of the feminist movement's earliest victories?

the decline of the coverture

For American middle-class reformers, the focus on alcohol consumption offered a way to address several issues. Which was NOT one of those issues?

the nation's dependency on foreign imports

What was the purpose of the Sons of Temperance?

to get people to live a sober life

Lending libraries and debating societies made an important contribution to the entertainment of the urban middle classes by the 1830s.

true

On one 4th of July, William Lloyd Garrison publicly burned a copy of the United States Constitution because it condoned slavery.

true

Only about forty years ago did historians prove without a doubt that the slave narrative of Harriet Jacobs was indeed hers and not the composition of Lydia Maria Child.

true

The advocates of the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance were not in the business of advocating for moderation in liquor consumption.

true

The cult of domesticity of the early nineteenth century exchanged the stereotypes of women as manipulative and domineering for those of women being vulnerable and childlike.

true

In their desire to improve themselves, members of the new American middle class of the 1830s and 1840s increasingly flocked to

voluntary associations.

Which behavior of modern middle-class Americans would have seemed disrespectable to an established middle-class gathering in the 1850s?

wine tasting

The modern middle class that emerged in the North in the first half of the nineteenth century consisted of people who thought of themselves as

working with their heads rather than their hands.