Period 4

Question 1

Elizabeth Stanton

Answer 1

American writer and activist who was a leader of the women’s rights movement

Question 2

Finney

Answer 2

minister, brilliant orator;revival of faith through individual effort; predestination destructive;

Question 3

Cooper

Answer 3

novelist, American wilderness; ideal of independent individual and natural inner goodness;

Question 4

Lucretia Mott

Answer 4

organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society; Quaker

Question 5

Margaret Fuller

Answer 5

Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States’

Question 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 6

American novelist and short story writer; wrote the Scarlett letter

Question 7

Susan B Anthony

Answer 7

American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement; Quaker

Question 8

Ralph Emerson

Answer 8

essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet, Transcendentalist

Question 9

Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)

Answer 9

labor unions were lawful organizations, strike a lawful weapon

Question 10

The Erie Canal connected what city to the Great Lakes

Answer 10

New York

Question 11

result of the growth of a national market economy between 1815 and 1860

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Increasing economic specialization, application of machinery to the mass production of goods, greater disparity of wealth between rich and poor Americans, organized labor movement, men working outside of the house

Question 12

Samuel Morse

Answer 12

invented telegraph

Question 13

Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

Answer 13

produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry

Question 14

rise in manufacturing beginning in the early 1800s eventually resulted in

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The emergence of a larger middle class in the North

Question 15

“separate spheres” for the sexes encouraged

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idealizing the home as a haven in a competitive world,
designating the home as the appropriate place for a woman, emphasizing childrearing as a prime duty of a woman, establishing a moral climate in the home, women intellectual inferior

Question 16

Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

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urban areas of the North

Question 17

growth of a market-based economy in the United States in the early 1800s most directly influenced changes in gender roles by

Answer 17

As home and the workplace became separated, women were increasingly expected to be responsible for housework and childcare while men took jobs outside the home.

Question 18

One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

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the separation of economic production from the home and family life

Question 19

Know Nothing movement was partially directed at reducing the influence of

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Catholics

Question 20

“the Lowell system” in early nineteenth-century New England

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A plan to promote and expand textile manufacturing activities

Question 21

1830’s, Cyrus cCormick imporved grain farming when he patented his

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reaper

Question 22

opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it

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strengthened the ties between the eastern manufacturing and western agricultural regions

Question 23

Frederick Douglass started an anti-slavery newspaper known as

Answer 23

The North Star

Question 24

reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century reflected which of the following impulses

Answer 24

an optimistic faith in human nature

Question 25

Oneida

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Free love, all married to each others, equality of the sexes

Question 26

Shakers

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Celibacy, equality of the sexes

Question 27

Mormon

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Poligamy

Question 28

Thoreau

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government that required an individual to violate his or her own morality had no legitimate authority

Question 29

Nativism (+2 parties formed)

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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants(bc of increase in immigration).
1. Native american party 1837
2. Know nothings Party
(Supreme order of the star-spangled banner 1850- ban from office, little naturalization, lit. test for voting;)

Question 30

Telegraph and press affect on nation
And Erie Canal

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Schism between North and South bc South had less industry; Erie canal connected NW and NE regions (industrial and agricultural);

Question 31

Technology

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Iron rails + truck lines, interchangeable parts, rotary press, specializaiton

Question 32

Richard Howe

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rotary press –> diffusion of newspapers quicker

Question 33

Lowell System

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a labor production system where the manufacturing process was done under one roof; employed young farm women who were unmarried; Strict regulations, curfew;

Question 34

“Free Labor”

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freedom of movement and mobility; North took pride in this

Question 35

“express contract”

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attempts to limit and control the conditions of the workplace; they could only work more hours if they signed the contract; also same with children; MA, NH, PA

Question 36

Lower birth rates because of

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contraceptives and abortions; more people celibate

Question 37

Irish immigrants

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came from the potatoe famine 1845-52 –> came with little to no money –> worked for low wages and in poverty; settle in NE cities, cheap labor, most songle women; Catholic, like to drink; vote democratic

Question 38

German immigrants

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Families escape econonmy collapse and revolution; had some money, most single man; vote democratic

Question 39

De Bow

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advocate for Southern power

Question 40

whitemannism

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America is for white Americans

Question 41

Medicine

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• water cure (cholera epidemics 1830-40)
• Graham and eating well
• phrenology
• anesthetics from a dentist
• basic knowledge of disease from folk practices(small pox)

Question 42

Prudence Candell

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Tried to let some black girls into her school, but a mob burned down the school and had her jailed;

Question 43

Elijah lovejoy

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Wrote and abolitionist newspaper ; attacked three times and then he was shot and killed by a mob

Question 44

Garrisons newspapre

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The liberator

Question 45

John Calhoun

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argued that slavery was a positive good for the enslaved on the floor of the US Senate

Question 46

2nd great awakening resulted in

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conversion to evangelical Christianity

Question 47

Support for slavery in the Southern states was based

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on the fact that the bible condones slavery, Slaveholders believed that slaves were inferior and required White guardianship, White plantation owners feared abolition would destroy the South’s economy, Poor White farmers feared the economic competition of four million freed persons

Question 48

women’s movement in the antebellum period was characterized by

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close links with the antislavery and temperance movements, conventions in the Northeast and the Midwest, but not the South, involvement of middle-class women, platform of legal and educational rights,

Question 49

Women did not

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demand for equal compensation for equal work

Question 50

subsisitence farming/comercial farming

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farming just what a family needs to live with a little extra/ growing cash crops or growing only one type of plant to be traded