Exam 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

The best selling novel printed in the years before the Civil War was ____________________.

Joseph Smith set himself up as the first patriarch of the Mormon Church.

The growth of evangelicalism was greatest when the south committed to ____________________.

By 1830, southern clergymen

The first full-blown camp meeting held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky in 1801 did not include

African American ministers Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded black churches in Philadelphia because they opposed_________________ in mixed (black and white) churches.

The plain folk of the North were culturally conservative.

Compare the cultures of the northern and southern United States in the period from 1820 to 1850.

Newspapers encouraged both democracy and individualism.

Before 1845, it was rare for a woman to author a book of any significant commercial success.

Which of the following were most likely to be postmillennialists?

The "plain people" of the North all shared similar characteristics and

The first mass-circulation magazine for women was

Describe the various types of popular entertainment that appealed to northern Americans in the nineteenth century.

The middle class was a product of

Slaveholders were expelled from their churches for mistreating their slaves.

Southern evangelicals moved from calling for an end to slavery to strongly supporting it.

Examine the transformation of middle-class American domestic life in the nineteenth century, specifically the changing roles for men and women.

The religious evangelical who led a middle-class revival in Rochester, New York was ____________________.

By 1840, only ____________________ maintained a propertied electorate.