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
