Question 1

Did the era of reform (1820-1860)increase or diminish the extent of social and cultural freedom that existed during the Revolutionary era (1770-1820)?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Reform M

Question 2

Why did Protestant Christianity and Protestant women emerge as forces for social change? In what areas did women become active?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- The Seco

Question 3

Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in postrevolutionary America?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most citizens believed that government and politics should be completely free from the influence of religious beliefs. 
B)  The Baptist Church led the campaign for state protection and funding of all Christian denominations. 
C)  Most states continued to support churches indirectly by not taxing their property or ministers' incomes. 
D)  By 1786,the Anglican Church of Virginia was the only example of an established church in any state. 
A)  Most citizens believed that government and politics should be completely free from the influence of religious beliefs. 
B)  The Baptist Church led the campaign for state protection and funding of all Christian denominations. 
C)  Most states continued to support churches indirectly by not taxing their property or ministers' incomes. 
D)  By 1786,the Anglican Church of Virginia was the only example of an established church in any state.

Question 4

Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

Accepted Answer

A)  They believed men were spiritually weaker than women. 
B)  They excluded African Americans in order to maintain racial purity. 
C)  Men greatly outnumbered women in Shaker communities. 
D)  They allowed both women and men to govern their communities. 
A)  They believed men were spiritually weaker than women. 
B)  They excluded African Americans in order to maintain racial purity. 
C)  Men greatly outnumbered women in Shaker communities. 
D)  They allowed both women and men to govern their communities.

Question 5

For this question,refer to the following poster advertising Barlow,Wilson,Primrose,and West's "Mammoth Minstrels' Colored Masquerade."   Which of the following groups was most likely the intended audience of the poster above?

Accepted Answer

A)  Abolitionists 
B)  Slaves 
C)  Working-class whites 
D)  The urban elite and middle classes 
A)  Abolitionists 
B)  Slaves 
C)  Working-class whites 
D)  The urban elite and middle classes

Question 6

The Oneida Community,founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes,was known for which of the following practices?

Accepted Answer

A)  Complex marriage 
B)  Monogamy 
C)  Celibacy 
D)  Equality of men and women 
A)  Complex marriage 
B)  Monogamy 
C)  Celibacy 
D)  Equality of men and women

Question 7

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The rebels won their freedom. 
B)  A national convention of African American activists met in Philadelphia. 
C)  Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented. 
D)  Rioting erupted in northern cities. 
A)  The rebels won their freedom. 
B)  A national convention of African American activists met in Philadelphia. 
C)  Tougher slave codes and restrictions were implemented. 
D)  Rioting erupted in northern cities.

Question 8

What were the principles and the goals of the women's rights movement? Why did they arouse intense opposition?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Summary

Question 9

Answer the following  questions :
-Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,or Mormons

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 10

Henry David Thoreau,Margaret Fuller,and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

Accepted Answer

A)  Temperance 
B)  Prison reform 
C)  Educational reform 
D)  Transcendentalism 
A)  Temperance 
B)  Prison reform 
C)  Educational reform 
D)  Transcendentalism

Question 11

Why are the Oneidians,Shakers,and Fourierists historically significant?

Accepted Answer

A)  All of these groups exercised great influence over American politics. 
B)  These utopians all criticized capitalism but made tremendous profits through manufacturing. 
C)  They repudiated heterosexual sex and sexuality. 
D)  They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy. 
A)  All of these groups exercised great influence over American politics. 
B)  These utopians all criticized capitalism but made tremendous profits through manufacturing. 
C)  They repudiated heterosexual sex and sexuality. 
D)  They articulated criticisms of the class divisions created by the market economy.

Question 12

Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

Accepted Answer

A)  He attacked the U.S.Constitution because it condoned slavery. 
B)  He was motivated by political,not religious,concerns. 
C)  Garrison believed violence was an acceptable means for ending American slavery. 
D)  Garrison called for the institution of gradual abolition in all states. 
A)  He attacked the U.S.Constitution because it condoned slavery. 
B)  He was motivated by political,not religious,concerns. 
C)  Garrison believed violence was an acceptable means for ending American slavery. 
D)  Garrison called for the institution of gradual abolition in all states.

Question 13

Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most held low-wage jobs as farmworkers,day laborers,or laundresses. 
B)  They constituted a majority of the African American population in the South by 1820. 
C)  Many free blacks would have settled in Africa had they been able to afford the trip. 
D)  Most northern states passed laws banning free blacks from owning or running a business. 
A)  Most held low-wage jobs as farmworkers,day laborers,or laundresses. 
B)  They constituted a majority of the African American population in the South by 1820. 
C)  Many free blacks would have settled in Africa had they been able to afford the trip. 
D)  Most northern states passed laws banning free blacks from owning or running a business.

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-Benevolent Empire

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 15

Answer the following  questions :
-Female Moral Reform Society

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 16

How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?

Accepted Answer

A)  By supporting political reforms that were designed to help disadvantaged families survive adversity 
B)  By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically 
C)  By establishing missions to bring their messages of moral purity and self-discipline to the poor 
D)  By ignoring social problems and concentrating on improving the behavior of their children and household servants 
A)  By supporting political reforms that were designed to help disadvantaged families survive adversity 
B)  By forming regional and national organizations to institutionalize charity and combat crime systematically 
C)  By establishing missions to bring their messages of moral purity and self-discipline to the poor 
D)  By ignoring social problems and concentrating on improving the behavior of their children and household servants

Question 17

Which of the following is properly paired?

Accepted Answer

A)  Henry David Thoreau-Uncle Tom's Cabin 
B)  Walt Whitman-Leaves of Grass 
C)  Nathaniel Hawthorne-The American Scholar 
D)  Herman Melville-The Scarlet Letter 
A)  Henry David Thoreau-Uncle Tom's Cabin 
B)  Walt Whitman-Leaves of Grass 
C)  Nathaniel Hawthorne-The American Scholar 
D)  Herman Melville-The Scarlet Letter

Question 18

How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Female abolitionists often discussed issues of slavery among themselves,but they had limited involvement in the movement. 
B)  Women were not active in the abolition movement. 
C)  Women interested in abolition attended meetings with their husbands but did not actively participate in the societies. 
D)  Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. 
A)  Female abolitionists often discussed issues of slavery among themselves,but they had limited involvement in the movement. 
B)  Women were not active in the abolition movement. 
C)  Women interested in abolition attended meetings with their husbands but did not actively participate in the societies. 
D)  Women abolitionists established influential groups such as the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-individualism

Accepted Answer

A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. 
A) Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes,castes,associations,and families. 
B) A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1810s to the 1830s which prompted thousands of conversion and widespread optimism about Americans' capacity for progress and reform. 
C) A web of reform organizations,heavily Whig in their political orientation,built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. 
D) A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual. 
E) A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,embracing human passion,spiritual quest,and self-knowledge.Romanticism strongly influenced American Transcendentalism.
F)A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses.Influenced by Romanticism,writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality,self-reliance,and nonconformity.
G)Communities founded by reformers and Transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.
H)A system of social and economic organization proposed by French thinker Charles Fourier,which was based on common ownership of goods and shared labor by members of a community.A number of nineteenth-century American utopian communities tried to put Fourierist principles into practice.
I)Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.
J)Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob,Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.
K)The practice of men taking multiple wives,which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system.
L)Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals.
M)Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830,in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.
N)Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination,inequality,and political slavery.
O)Church founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants.The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri,Kentucky,Louisiana,and South Carolina.
P)The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s.
Q)The first interracial social justice movement in the United States,which advocated the immediate,unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights,without compensation to slave masters.
R)An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.
S)A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.
T)An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844,controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs.
U)An organization led by middle-class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while "rescuing" sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades.
V)A middle-class ideal of "separate spheres" which celebrated women's special mission as homemakers,wives,and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities,but which excluded women from professional careers,politics,and civic life.
W)Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own,inherit,and bequeath property.
X)The first women's rights convention in the United States.Held in New York in 1848,it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

Question 20

Trace the relationship between America's republican culture and the surge of evangelism called the Second Great Awakening.In what ways are the goals of the two movements similar? How are they different?

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Exam 10: Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Did the era of reform (1820-1860)increase or diminish the extent of social and cultural freedom that existed during the Revolutionary era (1770-1820)?

Why did Protestant Christianity and Protestant women emerge as forces for social change? In what areas did women become active?

Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in postrevolutionary America?

Which of the following describes the nineteenth-century Shakers?

For this question,refer to the following poster advertising Barlow,Wilson,Primrose,and West's "Mammoth Minstrels' Colored Masquerade." Which of the following groups was most likely the intended audience of the poster above?

The Oneida Community,founded in 1839 by John Humphrey Noyes,was known for which of the following practices?

Which of the following was a result of the Turner Rebellion of the 1830s?

What were the principles and the goals of the women's rights movement? Why did they arouse intense opposition?

Answer the following questions : -Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,or Mormons

Henry David Thoreau,Margaret Fuller,and Ralph Waldo Emerson were well known for their involvement in which of the following movements?

Why are the Oneidians,Shakers,and Fourierists historically significant?

Which of the following statements is true about William Lloyd Garrison?

Which of these statements most accurately describes the experiences of free blacks in the early nineteenth-century United States?

Answer the following questions : -Benevolent Empire

Answer the following questions : -Female Moral Reform Society

How did middle-class reformers attempt to overcome disorder and lawlessness among urban wage earners in early nineteenth-century America?

Which of the following is properly paired?

How did women participate in the abolition movement in the mid-eighteenth century?

Answer the following questions : -individualism

Trace the relationship between America's republican culture and the surge of evangelism called the Second Great Awakening.In what ways are the goals of the two movements similar? How are they different?

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