Exam 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

In the 1830s, the birthrate in the United States declined by 1.5 over a ten year period.

The first theater riot occurred in ____________________.

Evangelicals such as Charles Colcock Jones believed that slaves

Child rearing became an increasingly female task in the antebellum period.

In the tradition of southern manhood, camp preachers sometimes responded to  hecklers by punching them.

Sentimental novels upheld middle class ____________________.

The Shakespeare play that was a favorite of working-class audiences was ____________________.

Protestant postmillennialists

Few people read Uncle Tom's Cabin before the Civil War.

How did southern evangelicalism change its position on slavery between 1780-1840?

The national culture that developed after the 1830s included all of the following elements except

Nineteenth-century minstrel shows

African American song and dance was introduced to American audiences in the ____________________ shows.

In the south, evangelicals

The popular literature of the 1830s

For the most part, religion and the position of pro-slavery advocates were compatible in the South.

Describe the significance of newspapers in the early nineteenth century.

By the 1830s, most of the responsibility for child-rearing in northern homes rested with

In the early nineteenth century, sentimental novels outsold

Joseph Smith labeled the centuries of greed and error of the Christian churches the ____________________.