Question 1

A majority of middle-class evangelicals supported abolition.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) considered blacks unfit to be citizens. 
B) wanted to end slavery. 
C) wanted to grant equal opportunity to free blacks. 
D) wanted to expand slavery. 
E) thought that slavery should not be based on race but that it should extend to poor whites as well as blacks. 
A) considered blacks unfit to be citizens. 
B) wanted to end slavery. 
C) wanted to grant equal opportunity to free blacks. 
D) wanted to expand slavery. 
E) thought that slavery should not be based on race but that it should extend to poor whites as well as blacks.

Question 3

To Whigs, markets were​

Accepted Answer

A) likely to inhibit moral and social progress.​ 
B) designed to inspire selfishness and greed.​ 
C) the source of class tension.​ 
D) inclined to discourage laziness and encourage ambition. ​ 
E) none of these choices. 
A) likely to inhibit moral and social progress.​ 
B) designed to inspire selfishness and greed.​ 
C) the source of class tension.​ 
D) inclined to discourage laziness and encourage ambition. ​ 
E) none of these choices.

Question 4

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled most closely on the

Accepted Answer

A) Declaration of Rights and Grievances. 
B) Rights of Man. 
C) Declaration of Independence. 
D) Declaration of Man and the Citizen. 
E) the Bible. 
A) Declaration of Rights and Grievances. 
B) Rights of Man. 
C) Declaration of Independence. 
D) Declaration of Man and the Citizen. 
E) the Bible.

Question 5

The American Colonization Society's opposition to slavery can best be described as

Accepted Answer

A) courageous and dedicated. 
B) noble. 
C) half-hearted. 
D) hypocritical. 
E) nonexistent. 
A) courageous and dedicated. 
B) noble. 
C) half-hearted. 
D) hypocritical. 
E) nonexistent.

Question 6

Democrats trusted and supported banks.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The New York Magdalen Society sought to eliminate

Accepted Answer

A) prostitution. 
B) alcohol use. 
C) poverty. 
D) childhood disease. 
E) capitalism. 
A) prostitution. 
B) alcohol use. 
C) poverty. 
D) childhood disease. 
E) capitalism.

Question 8

The term "normal school" referred to state teachers' colleges.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

All of the following statements regarding the Washington Temperance Society are true except it

Accepted Answer

A) identified its members as the laboring classes. 
B) only accepted short-term drinkers and rejected "hopeless drunks." 
C) was avowedly nonreligious. 
D) rejected politics and legislation. 
E) called for restoring male authority within the family. 
A) identified its members as the laboring classes. 
B) only accepted short-term drinkers and rejected "hopeless drunks." 
C) was avowedly nonreligious. 
D) rejected politics and legislation. 
E) called for restoring male authority within the family.

Question 10

Before the 1830s, the largest organization opposed to slavery was

Accepted Answer

A) American Anti-Slavery Society. 
B) William Lloyd Garrison Society. 
C) New England Anti-Slavery Society. 
D) American Colonization Society. 
E) Free Labor Society. 
A) American Anti-Slavery Society. 
B) William Lloyd Garrison Society. 
C) New England Anti-Slavery Society. 
D) American Colonization Society. 
E) Free Labor Society.

Question 11

Dorothea Dix advocated the use of flogging and cold showers in the treatment of the insane.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Discuss American views on slavery and racial differences along with the rise of abolitionism in the years from 1820 to 1840.

Accepted Answer

During the years from 1820 to 1840, Amer

Question 13

Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions?

Accepted Answer

A) western New York 
B) southern New England 
C) northern Ohio 
D) northeastern cities. 
E) all of these choices 
A) western New York 
B) southern New England 
C) northern Ohio 
D) northeastern cities. 
E) all of these choices

Question 14

The market revolution seemed to increase the number of those dependent upon the state.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of By 1860, every slave state except the...

Question 16

The most overwhelmingly Democratic group in the country were

Accepted Answer

A) northern free blacks. 
B) immigrant Chinese. 
C) native Protestant wage earners. 
D) native-born farmers. 
E) immigrant Irish Catholics. 
A) northern free blacks. 
B) immigrant Chinese. 
C) native Protestant wage earners. 
D) native-born farmers. 
E) immigrant Irish Catholics.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of The political party most likely to support...

Question 18

America's increasing alcohol consumption in the antebellum period was the result of

Accepted Answer

A) mass marketing campaigns that included free samples of alcohol. 
B) the growing number of communal occasions that prompted social drinking. 
C) the cheap cost of alcohol. 
D) a rising number of women who consumed alcohol. 
E) an increasing desire to be intoxicated. 
A) mass marketing campaigns that included free samples of alcohol. 
B) the growing number of communal occasions that prompted social drinking. 
C) the cheap cost of alcohol. 
D) a rising number of women who consumed alcohol. 
E) an increasing desire to be intoxicated.

Question 19

Which of the following launched the Postal Campaign?

Accepted Answer

A) temperance movement 
B) women's movement 
C) abolitionists 
D) prison reformers 
E) public education reformers 
A) temperance movement 
B) women's movement 
C) abolitionists 
D) prison reformers 
E) public education reformers

Question 20

New York's Married Women's Property Act was passed in ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of New York's Married Women's Property Act was...

Exam 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860

A majority of middle-class evangelicals supported abolition.

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

To Whigs, markets were​

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled most closely on the

The American Colonization Society's opposition to slavery can best be described as

Democrats trusted and supported banks.

The New York Magdalen Society sought to eliminate

The term "normal school" referred to state teachers' colleges.

All of the following statements regarding the Washington Temperance Society are true except it

Before the 1830s, the largest organization opposed to slavery was

Dorothea Dix advocated the use of flogging and cold showers in the treatment of the insane.

Discuss American views on slavery and racial differences along with the rise of abolitionism in the years from 1820 to 1840.

Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions?

The market revolution seemed to increase the number of those dependent upon the state.

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

The most overwhelmingly Democratic group in the country were

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

America's increasing alcohol consumption in the antebellum period was the result of

Which of the following launched the Postal Campaign?

New York's Married Women's Property Act was passed in ____________________.

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

Colonization in North America, 1600-1680

Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in North America, 1670-1720

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763

Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776

The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery 1845-1860

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism, 1900-1917

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War, 1939-1945

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

America at Midcentury, 1953-1963

America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014

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