Unit 11 Riotto
Prior to the Civil War, a transfomation occured in the work force of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by...
Irish immigrants
Tax-supported public education reformers argued that..
It was necessary for democracy
The founding prophet of Mormonism was
Joseph Smith
Members of the Hudson River School were best known for their paintings of...
Landscapes
The majority of white families in the antebellum South owned...
No slaves
The theme of individualism is most evident in the writings of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiation, self-eliance, dissent, and nonconformity?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening resulted in...
A strong religious influence in many areas of American life
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were...
Able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by...
Abolitionism
Which of the following were methods of slave resistance?
All of the above
Transcendentalists believe that all knowledge came through...
An inner light
The greatest Second Great Awakening revivalist preacher was...
Charles Finney
The women's movement in the antebellum period was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT...
Demand for equal compensation for equal work
Women became especially active in the social reforms stimulated by the Second Great Awakening because...
Evangelical religion emphasized their spiritual dignity and religious social reform legitimized their activity outside the home
Perfectionism in the mid-nineteenth century is best defined as...
Faith in human capacity to achieve a better life on earth through conscious acts of will
All of the following contributed to the growth of the free African American population in the United States in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT...
Federal constitutional provisions for emancipation
The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT...
Federal financing of secondary education
The drawing above has been cited as evidence of the nineteenth century middle class view of the...
Home as a refuge from the world rather than as a productive unit
Which religious denominations gained the most from the Second Great Awakening?
Methodists and baptists
With what reform movement do we most closely associate with Dorothea Dix?
Prisons and asylums
The goal of the American Colonization Society was to
Return freed slaves to Africa
"I have come to this country to introduce an entire new state of society; to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one and remove all causes for contest between individuals." The statement above was made by which nineteenth century Utopian reformer?
Robert Owen
"A Maryland master placed the following newspaper advertisement in 1772 after Harry, his slave had run away: "He has been seen about the Negro Quarters in Patuxent, but is supposed to have removed among his acquaintances on Potomac. He is also well acquainted with a Negro of Mr.Wall's named Rachael; a few miles from that Quarter is his Aunt and he may possibly be harboured thereabouts." Which of the following statements about conditions under slavery is best supported by the passage above?
Slaves maintained social networks among kindred and friends despite forced separations
Most antebellum white southerners were...
Subsistence farmers
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of...
Temperance
Mormonism originated in...
The burned over district of upstate New York
Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in antebellum America because...
The market economy inceasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles
The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to...
The natural population increase of American born slaves
"Let Southern oppressors tremble. I shall strenuously contend fo immediate enfranchisement... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice." The author of the statement above was...
William Lloyd Garrison
The call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves" is associated with the position of
William Lloyd Garrison in The Liberator
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split into factions because...
William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members
The majority of southern whites did not own slaves because...
They could not afford it
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of...
Transporting African Americans to Africa