Chapter 12

Question 1

A young minister converted by the evangelical preacher Charles G. Finney, _____ helped to create a mass constituency for abolitionism by training speakers and publishing pamphlets

Answer 1

Theodore Weld

Question 2

Abby Kelley:

Answer 2

Demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements

Question 3

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

Answer 3

Countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species

Question 4

About ____ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Answer 4

100

Question 5

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

Answer 5

Voluntary associations

Question 6

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

Answer 6

There was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees

Question 7

All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCEPT:

Answer 7

She was the first feminist leader educated at a major college

Question 8

Although it only lasted a few years, the New Harmony community:

Answer 8

Influenced education reformers and women’s rights advocates

Question 9

Angelina and Sarah Grimke:

Answer 9

Critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women

Question 10

b. mental health treatment

Answer 10

Temperance

Question 11

Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

Answer 11

Frederick Douglass

Question 12

Brook Farm:

Answer 12

Was founded by New England transcendentalists

Question 13

Burned-over districts were:

Answer 13

In New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred

Question 14

By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:

Answer 14

Encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol

Question 15

Common schools:

Answer 15

Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War

Question 16

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

Answer 16

Construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane

Question 17

Frederick Douglass wrote, “When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, _____ will occupy a large space in its pages.”

Answer 17

Women

Question 18

Freedom’s Journal:

Answer 18

Was the first black-run newspaper in the United States

Question 19

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:

Answer 19

Convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans’ liberties

Question 20

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 20

Help eliminate racial discrimination

Question 21

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

Answer 21

They argued that too many people were “slaves” to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically

Question 22

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

Answer 22

The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately

Question 23

How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation’s Revolutionary heritage?

Answer 23

They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery

Question 24

Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

Answer 24

Was fundamentally a white society

Question 25

Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

Answer 25

Catholics

Question 26

The American Tract Society was focused on:

Answer 26

Religion

Question 27

The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:

Answer 27

Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction

Question 28

The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:

Answer 28

Prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans

Question 29

The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

Answer 29

Were the Grimke sisters

Question 30

The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker’s book depicts a black figure receiving “liberty” and “justice” from:

Answer 30

Heaven

Question 31

The gag rule:

Answer 31

Prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions

Question 32

The North Carolina- born free black whose An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:

Answer 32

David Walker

Question 33

The Oneida community:

Answer 33

Controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce

Question 34

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:

Answer 34

A dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work

Question 35

The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:

Answer 35

Tension between liberation and control in the era’s reform movements

Question 36

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

Answer 36

Set out to reorganized society on a cooperative basis

Question 37

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

Answer 37

Included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper

Question 38

The Sseneca Falls Convention’s Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the

Answer 38

Declaration of Independence

Question 39

The Seneca Falls Convention’s Declaration of Sentiments

Answer 39

Condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women

Question 40

The _____ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement

Answer 40

Liberty Party

Question 41

Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans

Answer 41

Saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property

Question 42

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

Answer 42

That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society

Question 43

What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

Answer 43

The hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery

Question 44

What was a “bloomer” in the 1850s?

Answer 44

A feminist style of dress

Question 45

Which book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?

Answer 45

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 46

Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?

Answer 46

New Harmony: Indiana

Question 47

Which state enacted a far-reaching law allowing married women to sign contracts and buy and sell property?

Answer 47

New York

Question 48

Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?

Answer 48

They practiced “complex marriage” and publicly recorded sexual relations

Question 49

Who founded the Shakers?

Answer 49

Ann Lee

Question 50

William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

Answer 50

Blacks were not “strangers” in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society

Question 51

William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:

Answer 51

The Liberator

Question 52

William Lloyd Garrison:

Answer 52

Suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of an connection to slavery