Exam 12: Antebellum Reform

In the nineteenth century supposedly "scientific" theories on racial differences indicated that

The American Colonization Society focused on which aspect of slavery?

The first temperance organization was originally called the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance.

Which political party was most supportive of government involvement in the market developments of the period from 1820 to 1840?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Declaration of Sentiments

The temperance crusade of the mid-nineteenth century

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

Democrats often praised market society outright.

Horace Mann was most interested in the establishment of ____________________.

The Democrats' approach to prisons emphasized rehabilitation.

IDENTIFICATIONS -William Lloyd Garrison

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

William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery as America's greatest national sin.

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

By the 1830s,in the northern states

Many of the reforms urged by Whig evangelicals had to do with domestic and personal life rather than with politics.

Most southern voters

What was the temperance movement? How did it affect American society in the early national period?

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

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