Exam 12: Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860

The leader of the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue that led to that nation's independence in 1804 was

In the 1830s, the major complaint of Democrats regarding canal projects was there were not enough of them to benefit the "common folk."

The abolitionists launched the ____________________ Campaign to flood the mails with their antislavery material.

Southern political divisions had little to do with religion.

In response to the American Anti-Slavery Society's postal campaign, President ____________________ permitted southern postal workers to censor the mail.

The first Women's Rights Convention (1848) was held in

By the 1830s, in the northern states

In the 1830s and 1840s, the Whig Party argued that the government should support economic growth and social progress.

Examine the movement for public-school reform in the United States.

Many Catholic parents refused to send their children to public school because

The leading advocate of humane treatment for the insane was ____________________.

Democrats often doubted the value of commerce.

The New York Magdalen Society was formed by ____________________ in 1828.

Hierarchy based on sex was ____________________ questioned in public before 1830.

In the early nineteenth century, whites stereotyped blacks as

Horace Mann was most interested in the establishment of ____________________.

The British outlawed the Atlantic slave trade in ____________________.

Whig education reformers cared more about character building than about traditional academic subjects.

____________________ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Political debates over public schools focused more on organization that what was taught.