Exam 10: Toward an American Culture

Examine the millennialist religions that emerged in the nineteenth-century Northeast.

Northern plain folk rejected middle-class culture and reformism.

By 1804, every state in the North had passed some type of law against slavery.

The most popular form of theater among nineteenth-century Americans was

In the south, evangelicals

The first mass-circulation magazine for women was

With the rise of middle class culture, child rearing practices changed in that

Nineteenth-century minstrel shows

White southerners in the deep south did not discuss emancipation.

The popular literature of the 1830s

In 1834, fierce race rioting occurred in the city of_____________.

Audience participation was discouraged at minstrel shows.

White southerners justified the institution of slavery with each of the following religious arguments except

Some of the best early American prizefighters were_____________ from New York City.

The first mass-circulation magazine for women was_____________.

Examine the role and influence of women in the development of 19th century culture in the United States, including   sentimental or domestic, literature.

Slaveholders were expelled from their churches for mistreating their slaves.

_____________ran New York City's Sportsman Hall, a saloon that became a frequent venue for blood sports.

Southern evangelicalism rested on all of the following beliefs except

In post-revolutionary America the most important social and political distinction was based on