Exam 12: Antebellum Reform

A majority of middle-class evangelicals supported abolition.

The Whig Party believed that government

The Female Moral Reform Society attempted to teach prostitutes morality and household skills.

By 1860, every slave state except the Carolinas and_____________ operated prisons on the Auburn model.

The temperance crusade of the mid-nineteenth century

The first temperance organization was originally called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance.

The only male delegate at the Seneca Falls convention was_____________.

On the issue of race, the Democratic Party of the 1840s

On the issue of internal improvements, the Democrats

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled most closely on the

The Bank of the United States was ended under the administration of_____________.

Explore the movement for reform in American society during the market revolution of the early nineteenth century.

Democrats in the mid-nineteenth century saw the government as a potentially dangerous concentration of power in the hands of selfish and greedy businessmen.

William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery as America's greatest national sin.

The political party most likely to support prohibition of alcohol was the_____________ Party.

Whig educators taught that social questions could be reduced to questions of individual character.

_____________believed that alcohol was an addictive drug that could turn even moderate drinkers into hopeless drunkards.

The American Colonization Society focused on which aspect of slavery?

The Democrats' approach to prisons emphasized rehabilitation.

In the 1830s, the major complaint of Democrats regarding canal projects was there were not enough of them to benefit the "common folk."