Exam 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

By 1830, American society was essentially republican, capitalist, and Protestant.

After the 1830s, Baptists and Methodists came to contain ____________________ of the nation's professing Protestants, North and South.

Northern plain folk rejected middle-class culture and reformism.

Explore the value and belief structures of the Northern middle class.

Southern white men tended to distrust early evangelicals.

Millerites were a religious group that believed the world would end in the year following March 1843.

The American theater could best be described as

The "Burned-Over District" referred to

Voting rights increased as ____________________ requirements were eliminated.

The most widely read novelist in the United States before the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin was

White southerners in the deep south did not discuss emancipation.

The spiritualism of the emerging "Bible Belt" developed primarily from what element of southern society?

When working class American audiences found theater productions too sophisticated for their tastes,

Audience participation was discouraged at minstrel shows.

The novel Quaker City imagined an idealized America built on Quaker beliefs.

The "yellow backed" fiction and penny press publications

An 1849 dispute over the acting styles of two Shakespearians led to a riot in which twenty people were killed.

____________________ was the belief that all theological changes since the end of Biblical times were man made mistakes.

During the early nineteenth century, the social distinctions based on gender

Examine the treatment of free blacks and the origins of modern racism in antebellum America.