Module 3 Sec 4 Quiz US History

The Temperance Society

What was the name of the organization that led the movement against alcoholism in the United States during much of the nineteenth century?

before the canal boom, they were limited to America's natural river networks they were unsafe

What were some of the drawbacks of steamboats? [choose all that apply]

Elijah Lovejoy

Which of the following abolitionists was killed by a mob in Alton, Illinois near the border of Missouri?

George Fitzhugh

Which of the following argued that Southern masters treated their slaves better than Northern bosses treated their factory laborers?

the rise of the middle class allowed for more leisure time among many people the nation became more interconnected and communicative Americans began to feel more connected to the nation as a whole

Which of the following best describes how the rise of a national market economy contributed to the major reform movements of the early nineteenth century? [choose all that apply]

the notion that women had a distinctive role in the family to ensure the virtue of their husbands and children

Which of the following best describes the Cult of Domesticity?

a national economy whereby goods are produced and consumed based on supply and demand

Which of the following best describes the concept of a market economy?

Immediate emancipation without emigration

Which of the following best describes the philosophy of William Lloyd Garrison?

families became more child-centered

Which of the following best describes the structural changes in middle and upper class families during the 1820s and 1830s?

cotton

Which of the following crops came to dominate agriculture in the South during the early nineteenth century?

Methodists

Which of the following denominations became known for using circuit riders in order to reach sparsely populated regions in the Midwest?

Theodore Dwight Weld

Which of the following established Oberlin College, which became known for abolitionist activity?

Joseph Smith

Which of the following individuals founded the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, also known as the Mormons?

Francis Cabot Lowell

Which of the following individuals is responsible for bringing the technology for the power loom to the United States based on schematics that he had memorized in Great Britain?

Lyman Beecher

Which of the following individuals led large revivals in his home state of Connecticut and helped turn the tide of the church's conflict with Enlightenment theology?

Charles Finney

Which of the following individuals led massive revivals in upstate New York and preached that through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Christians could become as perfect as God Himself?

Robert Fulton

Which of the following individuals traveled over 150 miles up the Hudson River from New York City in order to raise awareness of the benefits of steamboats?

Dorthea Dix

Which of the following individuals was instrumental in bringing about reforms in how the United States cared for the mentally ill?

Reverend Timothy Dwight

Which of the following individuals was the President of Yale College and led the fight against Unitarians and Universalists in New England?

Horace Mann

Which of the following individuals was the most influential supporter of public education in the nineteenth century?

textile manufacturing

Which of the following industries was the first in America to develop a full factory system?

the Grimke sisters

Which of the following led the break from abolitionism to focus instead on women's rights?

Romanticism

Which of the following was a movement in American literature where authors and poets drew their inspiration from the splendor of nature and things that could not be explained through the use of reason?

whiskey

Which of the following was the most popular alcoholic beverage of the early nineteenth century?

gather a large workforce into one place use a set process to manufacture goods as efficitently as possible use interchangeable parts use division of labor to increase output

Which of the following were essential parts of the factory system developed in the first half of the nineteenth century? [choose all that apply]

Baltimore and Ohio Charleston and Hamburg

Which of the following were the two first railroad companies to begin operation in the early 1830s? [choose two]

Early Nineteenth-Century Deism

accepts the existence of God but rejects miracles, including the resurrection

Universalism

all men and women would be saved in the end despite their actions or choices

Unitarianism

rejects the doctrine of the trinity

Erie

Completed in 1825, the ____________ Canal connected Buffalo, New York to the Midwest.

Poe

Edgar Allan __________ of Virginia developed a distinctive style of incredibly profound and haunting stories and poems that shocked the culture of his time.

cotton gin

Eli Whitney invented the ____________ __________ in 1793, which dramatically increased the production of the South's major cash crop.

granted railroad companies land offered loans bought stocks

How did state governments assist in the expansion of railroad technology in the first half of the nineteenth century? [choose all that apply]

Liberia

In 1821, the American Colonization Society founded a colony in West Africa called ______________ and managed to settle a few thousand emancipated slaves there.

women

In the early nineteenth century, ____________ became the spiritual and moral leaders of most families.

teetotalers

In the early nineteenth century, men and women who made a pledge to completely abstain from hard liquor became known as _________________.

to hold criminals before they received punishment

According to the course materials, what was the main purpose of jails before the American Revolution?

the South

According to the course materials, which of the following regions is the best example of how the market economy caused regions to specialize in certain goods?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to your course materials, which of the following American authors was the most famous Transcendentalist?

Utah

After many years of wandering, Brigham Young eventually led the Mormons to their "promised land" in the _________ territory, where they arrived in July 1847.

flatboats

Before the advent of steamboats, what kinds of boats did farmers use to transport goods down the Mississippi River?

railroads

By the late 1840s and 50s, Americans shifted their focus from canal-building to invest in ____________.

tariffs

Politicians such as Daniel Webster and Henry Clay helped northern manufacturing by calling for high protective ___________.

1840s

Railroad technology eventually overtook canals in which decade?

northeast

Steamboats were especially valuable in which of the following American regions?

Lowell

The Boston Manufacturing Company became successful using the "____________ system," mechanized production manned by a large workforce of single women to produce cloth on a massive scale.

Sentiments, women

The Declaration of _____ declared that "all men and _____ are created equal" and called for a repeal of all laws that placed men in superiority in relation to women.

Camp

The Second Great Awakening established a new Christian ritual, the _________ Meeting, where entire communities would gather under the shelter of a tent for powerful revival services.

National Road

The ___________ ____________, completed in 1818, connected Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, Virginia in the most substantial Federal road-building project. It was later extended to Vandaia, Illinois.

Liberty

The ______________ Party became the first political organization to nominate antislavery political candidates.

Transcendental

The _______________ Club, which began meeting in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts in 1837, produced some of America's most important authors.

Auburn

The __________________ Penitentiary was founded in New York in 1816 as an experiment of a new model for reforming criminals.

separate spheres

The belief that building the economy was the burden of men and building the home was the burden of women became known as

Seneca Falls

The early women's rights advocates in the first half of the nineteenth century gathered for the first time at the _____________ _____________ Convention in 1848.

women's

The final split in the American Anti-Slavery Society came in 1840 over the issue of ___________ rights.

Henry David Thoreau

This famous American Transcendentalist authored "Civil Disobedience," which inspired numerous reformers including Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ohio and New York

Mostly because of the efforts of Theodore Dwight Weld, which of the following states became the center of abolitionist activity in the 1830s? [choose all that apply]

Charles Finney

Theodore Dwight Weld was influenced by which of the following American religious leaders?

the institution of slavery

There were several reasons why the South was especially suited to produce cotton on a large scale. According to the course materials, which of the following was the most important factor?

Nat Turner

Those who advocated for gradual emancipation had their best opportunity in 1831 and 1832 when the Virginia legislature considered the issue after ___________ _____________ Rebellion