Exam 10: Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

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

In 1835, most Americans had access to newspapers.

During the early nineteenth century, the birthrate among northern middle-class mothers

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was

The founder of Mormonism, born in upstate New York in the early nineteenth century, was

Cheap "story papers," "yellow-back" fiction, and dime novels found their first and largest audience among ____________________.

Methodists renounced the need for a(n) ____________________ clergy.

In regards to slavery, in the late eighteenth century evangelical preachers

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

Southern camp meetings were usually limited to a single denomination.

Most southern clergy endorsed relationships based on dominance and submission.

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

Northern plain folk believed that all events were willed or allowed by God.

The plain Protestants of the North talked often of the millennium.

In 1835, there were ____________________ times as many newspapers in America than in Britain.

____________________ wore blackface in the first minstrel show in 1831.

The most likely converts at evangelical gatherings were seated on the ____________________.