Quiz 7 History
William Lloyd Garrison was
C) The advocate of "immediatism."
Compared to the Pennsylvania model of prisoner rehabilitation, Sing Sing prison in New York
A) Allowed prisoners to work communally
A series of sermons by the Reverend Lyman Beecher in 1825
A) Changed the debate on temperance from a health issue to a spiritual issue
The Liberty Party was replaced by the ___ in 1848.
A) Free Soil Party
Women were particularly drawn to Shakerism because
A) Of a belief in the spiritual equality of women and men.
What was the primary purpose of the American Bible Society?
A) To distribute Bibles in cities and frontier settlements.
How did advocates of the Benevolent Empire attempt to perfect society?
B) By personal contact, testimony, and exhortation.
How were children of the wealthy usually educated prior to the Civil War?
B) By private tutors.
How did Charles G. Finney's teachings differ from traditional Calvinist beliefs?
B) Finney emphasized hand agency
After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, most Latter-Day Saints
B) Followed Brigham Young to Utah.
Written in 1829, "An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World," by David Walker called for
B) Free and slave blacks using violence if necessary to abolish slavery.
The French observer Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans
B) Loved to organize.
What about Joseph Smith's teachings most offended others?
B) The doctrine of plural marriage.
Why did separatist communities withdraw from daily contact with the outside world?
B) To create a more perfect society here on earth.
In the new culture of self-improvement that characterized the 1830s, what did reformers believe was the key to individual success?
C) Hard work, industriousness, and frugality.
The Missouri Compromise was a devastating defeat for
C) Opponents of slavery
What is meant by the term "Benevolent Empire"?
C) People, as God's agents, should care for other people.
What did Seth Luther mean by the term "middle class"?
C) Persons whose jobs required mental rather than physical labor.
George Rapp's community of Harmony was taken over by
C) Robert Owen for a socialist experiment.
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
C) Sent missionaries to China, Africa, and Asia
What did free black leaders think were the true motives of the American Colonization Society's effort to repatriate blacks in Africa?
C) That they were mostly interested in getting rid of free blacks.
The philosophy of self-culture brought what social movement to prominence?
C) The lyceum movement, which featured lectures on various subjects.
What was the largest and longest tenured reform proposal aimed at improving individuals in society?
C) The temperance movement.
What most distinguished Irish immigrants from general American society?
C) Their Catholic religion.
The Female Moral Reform Society
C) Tried to reclaim women from prostitution.
Advanced education at the college level in the antebellum period
C) Was available only for males.
The organization of new political groups such as the Working Men's Party provides evidence that
C) Workers lacked confidence in existing parties
What changes occurred in urban development by the 1830s?
D) Neighborhoods stratified by class.
Where did women gather in 1848 to pass their Declaration of Sentiments, a kind of declaration of independence from male domination?
D) Seneca Falls, New York.
For what purpose did the Rev. Ezra Stiles Ely establish the Society for Supporting the Gospel?
D) To work with indigents in urban shelters
What group provided the "backbone" of the Benevolent Empire?
D) Women volunteers.
How did the New Middle Class regard gender assignments in society?
D) Women were gentler and therefore best suited to remain at home.
Why did some Americans withdraw into covenanted communities?
D)To prepare for the end of days.
Most internal migrants
Moved only short distances.
By 1830, American workers had seen
The results of wage dependency.
George Rapp, who also thought the Second Coming of Christ was imminent, believed
that members should