Unit 3 Pt. 2 Flashcards
Which of the following was the critical catalyst for antebellum reform movements?
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville mean when he used the term individualism to describe American society in 1835?
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The philosophy that people could gain mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the world of the senses is known as which of the following?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about which of the following in his essays and lectures?
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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe would promote an individual’s mystical union with God and achievement of self-realization?
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The American Lyceum movement of the 1830s engaged in which of the following efforts?
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Which of the following statements about Emerson is correct?
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Which of the following describes the purpose of Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden?
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Which of the following qualities did Henry David Thoreau urge in his readers, as demonstrated by the statement, “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer”?
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Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?
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Who was a critic for the New York Tribune, an editor of The Dial, and the author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century?
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Which of the following is properly paired?
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Which of the following did Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have in common?
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Which of the following describes the residents of the Brook Farm community of the 1840s?
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In the late 1840s and the 1850s, Emersonians did which of the following?
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The Shakers’ name came from which of the following?
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Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?
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Which of the following describes the Fourierist movement in America?
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Which of the following was an evangelical movement that believed the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred and people could attain complete freedom from sin?
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The Oneida Community, founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes, was known for which of the following practices?
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Why are the Oneidians, Shakers, and Fourierists historically significant?
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Which of the following describes The Book of Mormon, published in 1830?
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Which of the following contributed to the harassment and persecution of Mormons at Nauvoo in the early 1840s?
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For which of the following reasons did the Salt Lake Mormons succeed and thrive in the nineteenth century even as other social experiments failed?
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Which of the following factors was critical in the ballooning populations of cities like New York in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Which of these factors contributed to the tremendous increase in commercialized sex in the new cities of the mid-nineteenth century?
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Which of the following describes the minstrel shows that became popular in American cities in the 1840s?
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Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?
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In the early 1800s, free blacks in the North were encouraged to “elevate” themselves through which of the following activities?
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In his 1829 pamphlet, An Appeal . . . to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker did which of the following?
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Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?
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As a result of Turner’s Rebellion, the Virginia legislature did which of the following in the 1830s?
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Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?
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How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?
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In their book “American Slavery as It Is,” Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimké sisters
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In its campaign to end slavery, the American Anti-Slavery Society embraced which of the following tactics?
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Abolitionist leaders used which of the following in their crusade to end slavery in the middle of the 1800s?
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Which of the following individuals went to jail rather than pay taxes in support of the Mexican War and slavery?
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Why did many northern wage earners not support abolition in the mid-eighteenth century?
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Mob violence against abolitionist efforts in the 1830s and 1840s was
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What was the gag rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836?
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By the early 1840s, Garrison and his supporters in the American Anti-Slavery Society had transformed their agenda in which of the following ways?
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Who founded the Liberty Party in 1840?
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The public movement for women’s rights developed out of which of the following sources in the 1840s?
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Mid-nineteenth-century publications such as Godey’s Lady’s Book and Catharine Beecher’s Treatise on Domestic Economy did which of the following?
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What was the purpose of the Female Moral Reform Society, which middle-class New York women founded in 1834?
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Efforts by women reformers to regulate sexual behavior resulted in laws in Massachusetts and New York that did which of the following?
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Horace Mann and Catharine Beecher were both actively involved in which of the following movements in the 1840s?
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Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was published in 1852?
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During the 1840s, American women’s rights activists focused on which of the following goals?
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Why was the South on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution by 1840?
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Which of the following statements characterizes the cotton planter class in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas in the mid-nineteenth century?
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The U.S. federal government participated in the expansion of slavery during the early to mid-1800s through which of the following?
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Which of these factors explained the surplus of slaves in the Chesapeake region in the early nineteenth century?
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Which of the following areas is correctly matched with its primary crop?
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Which of the following characterizes the plantation labor system of the southern cotton industry?
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Which factor led to planters’ need to smuggle slaves into the country rather than import them legally?
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Why did a labor crisis develop in the Cotton South in the first few decades of the 1800s?
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How did planters attempt to resolve a labor crisis in the cotton South in the early nineteenth century?
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Which of the following statements characterizes the domestic slave trade in the nineteenth century?
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The cotton boom that began in the 1810s set which of the following results in motion?
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By 1860, the majority of African Americans lived and worked as slaves in which of the following regions?
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Why was the domestic slave trade crucial to the southern economy?
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The domestic slave trade affected the African American family unit before 1865 by
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Which of the following statements was true of the American South in 1860?
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Which of the following attributes of American society did the planter aristocracy in the South value highly in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Which of the following statements characterizes the planter elite of the Upper South in the early and mid-1800s?
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Which of these statements describes Southern rice planters of the mid-nineteenth century?
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Which of these statements describes the planter aristocrats who lived in the cotton-growing regions of the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
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The notion of slavery as a “necessary evil” and a “positive good” was supported by which idea?
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In the cotton-growing regions of the South, which of the following was true of the gang-labor system of work?
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Which of the following statements describes the institution of slavery in the nineteenth-century South?
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Smallholding planters in the nineteenth-century South owned about how many slaves, on average?
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Which of the following statements describes the class of propertyless whites living in the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
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Which of these factors created a major economic obstacle for small, family farmers aiming to improve their lot in the mid-nineteenth-century South?
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Which of these groups accounted for the largest percentage of the white population in the mid-nineteenth-century Cotton South?
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Why did the United States decline to annex Texas in 1837?
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What prevented planter elites from exercising complete political dominance over the Cotton South in the 1830s and 1840s?
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The Alabama Constitution of 1819 did which of the following?
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Which of the following statements describes the relationship between the economies of the North and the South in the mid-nineteenth century?
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What prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?
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Which of the following examples embodied the synthesis of African and American culture that existed in the South in the 1850s?
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Which of these concepts became a central tenet of slave Christianity in the South in the nineteenth century?
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Many African American slaves who converted to Christianity compared themselves to which of the following groups?
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Which of these factors contributed to the development of an increasingly homogenous African American culture in the rural South in the nineteenth century?
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Which of the following statements characterizes African American marriage customs in the slave South?
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Children born in slave communities in the nineteenth-century South often shared which of these characteristics?
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Which of the following were core institutions for African American society in the mid-nineteenth-century South?
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Under the task system, slaves were required to
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Which of these factors prompted many plantation masters to reduce reliance on violence and adopt positive incentives to motivate slaves in the 1830s and 1840s?
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Which of the following describes the changes in slaves’ living conditions in the early nineteenth century?
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Which of the following methods was a highly uncommon form of slave resistance in the slave South?
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Which of the following statements characterizes blacks’ resistance to slavery by the 1820s?
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Slaves’ practice of “taking root” involved which of the following?
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Which of these factors made enslaved African Americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the North?
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Which statement characterizes the typical relationship between slaves and their masters in the 1850s?
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Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?
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Which of the following pairs is properly matched?
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Which of the following is true of free blacks in the South?
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In the nineteenth-century South, free blacks lived primarily
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