Exam 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860

Democrats in the mid-nineteenth century saw the government as a potentially dangerous concentration of power in the hands of selfish and greedy businessmen.

The primary membership of the American Colonization Society came from the northern working classes.

Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to keep ____________________ out of politics.

Democrats were the ones most in favor of private banks chartered by state governments.

The "national drink" was

The temperance crusade of the mid-nineteenth century

Abolitionism found its greatest regional support in ____________________.

Democrats feared that government would

The New York Magdalen Society

The only male delegate at the Seneca Falls convention was ____________________.

Explore the movement for reform in American society during the market revolution of the early nineteenth century.

Lyman Beecher and Charles Finney supported the abolitionists in the 1830s.

One of the leading crusaders against the use of alcohol was

Where Democrats proposed abolishing banks, Whigs defended the system of private banks that -- as authorized by state governments -- had the right to issue currency but had ____________________ to protect directors and stockholders from bank-incurred debts.

____________________ believed that alcohol was an addictive drug that could turn even moderate drinkers into hopeless drunkards.

Democrats believed that because government rested in the hands of imperfect individuals, it had to be limited.

Whig educators taught that social questions could be reduced to questions of individual character.

The ____________________ Temperance Society was primarily a working-class organization opposed to the abuse of alcohol.

Examine the development of the Women's Rights Movement in post-1820 America.

The leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane was