Question 1

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Washingtonian Society

Accepted Answer

A) made abolition a political movement 
B) group of reformed drinkers 
C) Seneca Falls Convention 
D) New England transcendentalists 
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F)tax-supported public schools
G)a vision for a perfect society
H)area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I)preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J)feminist style of dress
K)first U.S.black newspaper
L)movement against alcohol 
A) made abolition a political movement 
B) group of reformed drinkers 
C) Seneca Falls Convention 
D) New England transcendentalists 
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F)tax-supported public schools
G)a vision for a perfect society
H)area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I)preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J)feminist style of dress
K)first U.S.black newspaper
L)movement against alcohol

Question 2

How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau?

Accepted Answer

A)  The utopianists saw the market revolution in a more positive manner than Thoreau. 
B)  Thoreau wanted slave labor to replace free labor,while utopianists wanted to redefine work. 
C)  Thoreau focused on the individual,while utopian leaders emphasized the community. 
D)  The utopian communities embraced nature,while Thoreau rejected it. 
E)  Both saw the industrial revolution as giving too many rights to the workers. 
A)  The utopianists saw the market revolution in a more positive manner than Thoreau. 
B)  Thoreau wanted slave labor to replace free labor,while utopianists wanted to redefine work. 
C)  Thoreau focused on the individual,while utopian leaders emphasized the community. 
D)  The utopian communities embraced nature,while Thoreau rejected it. 
E)  Both saw the industrial revolution as giving too many rights to the workers.

Question 3

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  "equalize the conditions of men." 
B)  provide an avenue for social advancement. 
C)  restore a fractured society. 
D)  reinforce social stability. 
E)  help eliminate racial discrimination. 
A)  "equalize the conditions of men." 
B)  provide an avenue for social advancement. 
C)  restore a fractured society. 
D)  reinforce social stability. 
E)  help eliminate racial discrimination.

Question 4

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

Accepted Answer

A)  immediate abolition of slavery. 
B)  establishment of common schools in the South. 
C)  better treatment of convicted criminals in jail. 
D)  construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane. 
E)  right for women to vote in local school elections. 
A)  immediate abolition of slavery. 
B)  establishment of common schools in the South. 
C)  better treatment of convicted criminals in jail. 
D)  construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane. 
E)  right for women to vote in local school elections.

Question 5

Owen promoted communitarianism so that workers received the full value of their labor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

According to Alexis de Tocqueville,what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

Accepted Answer

A)  State and federal governments. 
B)  Schools. 
C)  Political parties. 
D)  Voluntary associations. 
E)  Churches. 
A)  State and federal governments. 
B)  Schools. 
C)  Political parties. 
D)  Voluntary associations. 
E)  Churches.

Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Freedom's Journal

Accepted Answer

A) made abolition a political movement 
B) group of reformed drinkers 
C) Seneca Falls Convention 
D) New England transcendentalists 
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F)tax-supported public schools
G)a vision for a perfect society
H)area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I)preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J)feminist style of dress
K)first U.S.black newspaper
L)movement against alcohol 
A) made abolition a political movement 
B) group of reformed drinkers 
C) Seneca Falls Convention 
D) New England transcendentalists 
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F)tax-supported public schools
G)a vision for a perfect society
H)area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I)preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J)feminist style of dress
K)first U.S.black newspaper
L)movement against alcohol

Question 8

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

Accepted Answer

A)  followed all the laws but simply banned ownership of private property. 
B)  usually followed standard gender and marital relations. 
C)  made no effort to combat the growing disparity between rich and poor. 
D)  called themselves utopian because they knew that their efforts were likely to fail. 
E)  set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis. 
A)  followed all the laws but simply banned ownership of private property. 
B)  usually followed standard gender and marital relations. 
C)  made no effort to combat the growing disparity between rich and poor. 
D)  called themselves utopian because they knew that their efforts were likely to fail. 
E)  set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

Question 9

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Abby Kelley

Accepted Answer

Abby Kelley was a prominent American abo

Question 10

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman served as an influence on future women's rights leaders.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

At Oneida,celibacy was strictly enforced.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Don't tread on me." 
B)  "These are the times that try men's souls." 
C)  "Give me Liberty or give me death." 
D)  "No taxation without representation." 
E)  "One if by land,and two if by sea." 
A)  "Don't tread on me." 
B)  "These are the times that try men's souls." 
C)  "Give me Liberty or give me death." 
D)  "No taxation without representation." 
E)  "One if by land,and two if by sea."

Question 13

Frederick Douglass wrote,"When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written,women will occupy a large space in its pages." Was Douglass correct? Explain the role women played in the abolitionist movement.Then analyze how that experience influenced the feminist movement.

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass was indeed correct in

Question 14

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

Accepted Answer

A)  there were no separate species of races. 
B)  blacks and chimpanzees were the same. 
C)  skull sizes were the same for all races,but intelligence differed. 
D)  there was a hierarchy of races,with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees. 
E)  there were not yet enough scientific data to prove either the southern or the abolitionist points of view. 
A)  there were no separate species of races. 
B)  blacks and chimpanzees were the same. 
C)  skull sizes were the same for all races,but intelligence differed. 
D)  there was a hierarchy of races,with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees. 
E)  there were not yet enough scientific data to prove either the southern or the abolitionist points of view.

Question 15

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as the women's "sphere."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Abby Kelley:

Accepted Answer

A)  was one of the only female voices in the abolitionist movement. 
B)  demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements. 
C)  was the first American woman to speak in public. 
D)  married a leading temperance advocate. 
E)  quit speaking publicly against slavery after her child was born. 
A)  was one of the only female voices in the abolitionist movement. 
B)  demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements. 
C)  was the first American woman to speak in public. 
D)  married a leading temperance advocate. 
E)  quit speaking publicly against slavery after her child was born.

Question 17

Dorothea Dix advocated better treatment of the mentally insane.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture,reform became a badge of respectability.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

With his abolitionist writings,David Walker employed both secular and religious language.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

MATCHING
Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Dorothea Dix

Accepted Answer

A) equated slavery with sin 
B) The Liberator 
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin 
D) accepted men as "the superior" 
E) organized the Seneca Falls Convention
F)advocate for the mentally ill
G)leading educational reformer
H)An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
I)editor and martyr of the abolitionist movement
J)Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
K)New Harmony
L)Woman in the Nineteenth Century 
A) equated slavery with sin 
B) The Liberator 
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin 
D) accepted men as "the superior" 
E) organized the Seneca Falls Convention
F)advocate for the mentally ill
G)leading educational reformer
H)An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
I)editor and martyr of the abolitionist movement
J)Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
K)New Harmony
L)Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Washingtonian Society

How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau?

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

Owen promoted communitarianism so that workers received the full value of their labor.

According to Alexis de Tocqueville,what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Freedom's Journal

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Abby Kelley

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman served as an influence on future women's rights leaders.

At Oneida,celibacy was strictly enforced.

Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments?

Frederick Douglass wrote,"When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written,women will occupy a large space in its pages." Was Douglass correct? Explain the role women played in the abolitionist movement.Then analyze how that experience influenced the feminist movement.

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as the women's "sphere."

Abby Kelley:

Dorothea Dix advocated better treatment of the mentally insane.

To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture,reform became a badge of respectability.

With his abolitionist writings,David Walker employed both secular and religious language.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Dorothea Dix

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

the Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

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Exam 12: An Age of Reform,1820-1840

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Washingtonian Society

How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau?

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

Owen promoted communitarianism so that workers received the full value of their labor.

According to Alexis de Tocqueville,what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Freedom's Journal

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Abby Kelley

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman served as an influence on future women's rights leaders.

At Oneida,celibacy was strictly enforced.

Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments?

Frederick Douglass wrote,"When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written,women will occupy a large space in its pages." Was Douglass correct? Explain the role women played in the abolitionist movement.Then analyze how that experience influenced the feminist movement.

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as the women's "sphere."

Abby Kelley:

Dorothea Dix advocated better treatment of the mentally insane.

To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture,reform became a badge of respectability.

With his abolitionist writings,David Walker employed both secular and religious language.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Dorothea Dix

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-america,1660-1750

Slavery,freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

the Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War,1861-1865

what is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

Filters