Deck 12: An Age of Reform,1820-1840

Question 1

How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau?

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.

Answer 1

Thoreau focused on the individual, while utopian leaders emphasized the community.

Question 2

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

A) They did not even try, because they had no intention of enhancing personal freedom.
B) They claimed that genuine liberty meant allowing others to eliminate those problems that might threaten that liberty.
C) They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically.
D) They contended that self-discipline was so rare that someone had to step in and make sure that Americans could enjoy the fruits of their labor.
E) They felt that eliminating temptations would lead to the natural liberty that Protestants had long considered crucial to maintaining a good society.

Answer 2

They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically.

Question 3

About ________ reform communities,often called utopian communities,were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

A) 20
B) 50
C) 100
D) 200
E) 500

Answer 3

100

Question 4

The Oneida community:

A) allowed each member an equal vote in governing the community.
B) permitted all of its members to own private property.
C) banished any member who divulged any information about the community's sexual practices.
D) invented the concept of birth control in America.
E) controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce.

Question 5

By 1840,the temperance movement in the United States had:

A) united Americans of all classes and religions in a "war" against alcohol.
B) virtually disappeared.
C) convinced Congress to pass a national prohibition law.
D) made no measurable impact on Americans' drinking habits.
E) encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol.

Question 6

Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans:

A) saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted that members give up their property.
B) feared the Communist Party that endorsed and, in some cases, sponsored these communities.
C) were Protestants, but all utopian communities required members to deny religious beliefs.
D) supported the industrial revolution, but most utopian communities turned away from industry in favor of an agrarian lifestyle.
E) considered the utopian communities to be too materialistic and selfish.

Question 7

Who founded the Shakers?

A) Joseph Smith.
B) Ann Lee.
C) Aimee McPherson.
D) Louisa Alcott.
E) Robert Matthews.

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

Who influenced the start of Brook Farm but never lived there?

A) Karl Marx.
B) Herman Melville.
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
D) Robert Owen.
E) Charles Fourier.

Question 10

What inspired Noyes's idea of achieving perfection?

A) Religious revivals.
B) Jefferson's ideas on democracy.
C) Original sin.
D) The Enlightenment.
E) Calvin's ideas on predestination.

Question 11

How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society?

A) The movement led to most immigrants becoming Methodist and Baptist.
B) It led to women's suffrage by the time of the Civil War.
C) The religious aspect led to alcohol being banned in the United States.
D) It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as alcoholism.
E) The movement deemphasized self-control.

Question 12

Although it lasted only a few years,the New Harmony community:

A) demonstrated that workers could function without discipline.
B) influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates.
C) popularized the abolitionist movement.
D) allowed Josiah Warren to prove his point about absolute individual freedom.
E) inspired the formation of more than a dozen offshoot communities by 1850.

Question 13

Overall,how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women?

A) A woman's place was in the home.
B) Women needed to serve in the military.
C) The prostitution of women was an example of free love.
D) Women should not participate in religious services.
E) Women needed to be treated as equals.

Question 14

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

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 15

In regard to utopian communities,how do spiritually oriented groups compare to societies with a worldly orientation?

A) The spiritual groups emphasized secularism.
B) World-orientation groups had no dissension.
C) Both groups were anomalies that had little influence on the world.
D) Spiritual groups usually lasted for longer time periods.
E) World-orientation societies were more likely to regulate relations between the sexes.

Question 16

How did Robert Owen first establish himself?

A) He founded a new sect of Christianity.
B) He took Karl Marx's ideas and promoted communism.
C) He founded a model factory village in Scotland.
D) He worked for his father, who was serving in the U.S. Congress.
E) He established a farming community in Massachusetts.

Question 17

Abby Kelley:

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 18

Which statement about the Shakers is true?

A) They practiced "complex marriage."
B) They received their name from a crazy dance they performed during high-society parties.
C) They hoped to create a model factory town.
D) They believed that women were spiritually equal to men.
E) They openly discussed sexual relations.

Question 19

Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?

A) Brook Farm: Virginia.
B) Oneida: Massachusetts.
C) Zoar: Maine.
D) New Harmony: Indiana.
E) Modern Times: Tennessee.

Question 20

Burned-over districts were:

A) areas in New York City where slaves had set fires.
B) in Louisiana, where slaves had burned cotton fields as a form of resistance.
C) regions where few evangelical Protestants lived (as though they had been burned out).
D) in Kansas and Nebraska, where fighting broke out over issues of slavery.
E) in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.

Question 21

How did the fairs of abolitionists expand on the Christmas holiday?

A) They added more church services.
B) They made it mandatory for all members of abolitionist societies to attend church on Christmas day.
C) They helped to create the idea of a Christmas shopping season.
D) They encouraged slaveowners to teach slaves about Christmas.
E) They created the Christmas tree.

Question 22

The North Carolina-born free black whose An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:

A) David Walker.
B) William Lloyd Garrison.
C) Lewis Tappan.
D) Wendell Phillips.
E) Theodore Weld.

Question 23

The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:

A) lengths to which the federal government would go to provide for the general well-being of its citizens.
B) power of the Democratic Party.
C) tension between liberation and control in the era's reform movements.
D) expansion of liberty for those members of society who could not take care of themselves.
E) general economic prosperity of the nation.

Question 24

Like Indian removal,the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

A) was fundamentally a white society.
B) wanted what was in the best interest of all the people.
C) was not financially able to support all who lived there.
D) provided opportunity for new land to those who desired it.
E) was a land of diversity and equality.

Question 25

William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

A) blacks could never fully achieve equality in America and would be happier in Africa.
B) because slaves were uneducated, it was necessary to educate them in America before sending them to Africa.
C) blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.
D) colonization should be subsidized through a tax on cotton.
E) because blacks had no political experience, Garrison himself ought to be appointed governor of the African colony.

Question 26

The American Tract Society was focused on:

A) slavery.
B) drinking.
C) feminism.
D) suffrage.
E) religion.

Question 27

William Lloyd Garrison:

A) secretly financed Nat Turner's Rebellion.
B) began publishing his newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, in 1831, but moved it to friendlier territory two years later.
C) attracted little support from fellow abolitionists, but historians have discovered his importance.
D) suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.
E) published American Slavery as It Is, an influential pamphlet.

Question 28

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

A) was limited to the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass.
B) included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.
C) showed that the movement was free from the racism that characterized American society.
D) was limited because the American Anti-Slavery Society banned them from its board of directors.
E) grew over time until, by the 1850s, the movement was dominated by blacks.

Question 29

In addition to trying to end slavery,abolitionists from 1830 to 1860 pioneered what?

A) The use of the telegraph.
B) A modern way of raising funds through fairs and bazaars.
C) The spread of the penny press.
D) Establishing various colonies in the Caribbean for ex-slaves.
E) Successfully getting guns to slaves.

Question 30

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

A) Actually, the two movements were quite similar in every way; the later one was simply more well-known because more people were literate by the 1830s.
B) The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately.
C) Earlier opponents of slavery had called for immediate emancipation, but the later group devised a plan for gradual emancipation that won broader support.
D) The later movement banned participation by African-Americans, because they feared that their involvement would cause a backlash.
E) The movement of the 1830s introduced the idea of colonizing freed slaves outside the United States, which proved immensely popular with southern whites.

Question 31

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

A) That the persons entering these institutions would likely never leave them.
B) That they were not widely needed, and not many were built.
C) That they would be excellent holding centers for society's undesirables.
D) That the persons in the facilities could be used as forced labor in factories.
E) That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society.

Question 32

Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

A) Catholics.
B) Protestants.
C) Women.
D) Perfectionists.
E) Northern middle class.

Question 33

How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?

A) They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
B) They cracked the Liberty Bell to signify that the bonds of liberty were breaking under the weight of slavery.
C) They used mob action, just as the revolutionaries had when they attacked such disagreeable measures as the Stamp Act.
D) They reminded audiences constantly that the main issue the Sons of Liberty and similar groups had invoked was liberty.
E) They made a heroic figure of Crispus Attucks, the African-American who died at the Boston Massacre.

Question 34

What was most significant about Theodore Weld's argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery?

A) It convinced some that slavery needed to be abolished immediately.
B) Ministers could preach that slavery was the devil's work.
C) It contradicted passages in the Bible that seemed to be proslavery.
D) It allowed ministers like William Lloyd Garrison to take on a leadership role.
E) It led to Frederick Douglass gaining his freedom.

Question 35

If the American Tract Society existed today,which of the following would anger this group?

A) Churches working together to feed the poor.
B) Different Protestant faiths protesting government policy.
C) Church services being promoted on television.
D) Businesses opening on Sundays to run special advertised sales.
E) Churches trying to end illegal drug abuse.

Question 36

The colonization of freed U.S.slaves to Africa:

A) received no support from southern slaveholders.
B) was strongly endorsed by William Lloyd Garrison throughout his career.
C) led to the creation of the free African nation of Ghana in 1835.
D) was praised by the English writer Harriet Martineau.
E) prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans.

Question 37

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

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 38

Common schools:

A) had no connection to the emerging industrial economy.
B) were based on the idea that the elite should be educated in their own schools.
C) suffered from the opposition of labor unions that wanted children available to work.
D) existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.
E) proved to be as popular in the North as they were in the South.

Question 39

Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Frederick Douglass?

A) Garrison wanted equal rights for African-Americans.
B) Douglass wanted women to play a role in abolitionism.
C) Douglass wanted ex-slaves to leave the United States.
D) Douglass favored a gradual end to slavery.
E) Garrison saw the Constitution as evil.

Question 40

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

A) Slavery.
B) Education reform.
C) The temperance movement.
D) Merchants trading with Europe.
E) Utopian societies promoting free love.

Question 41

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after:

A) The Declaration of Independence.
B) The U.S. Constitution.
C) Woman of the Nineteenth Century.
D) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
E) Letters on the Equality of the Sexes.

Question 42

By saying all humans are "moral beings," Angelina Grimké was in a way extending what concept?

A) John Winthrop's concept of Massachusetts as a "city on a hill."
B) The Second Great Awakening idea that people had to choose whether they wanted salvation.
C) John Locke's idea that all men had natural rights.
D) Thomas Jefferson's concept that the United States was an "empire of liberty."
E) Thomas Paine's belief that the American colonies could win their independence.

Question 43

Who in Congress worked tirelessly to end the gag rule?

A) Andrew Jackson.
B) William Lloyd Garrison.
C) Henry Clay.
D) Abraham Lincoln.
E) John Quincy Adams.

Question 44

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

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 45

The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

A) were the Grimké sisters.
B) was Frederick Douglass.
C) was Susan B. Anthony.
D) were Henry Stanton and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
E) was James G. Birney.

Question 46

What prompted the debate between Catherine Beecher and the Grimké sisters?

A) Beecher did not like the idea of women taking a lead role in the abolition movement.
B) Beecher was proslavery and wanted to extend slavery.
C) The Grimkés thought the abolitionist movement was too radical and should not try to end slavery immediately.
D) The Grimkés did not like Beecher's father, Lyman, who was a minister.
E) Frederick Douglass did not support women's rights, which angered the Grimkés.

Question 47

According to Catharine Beecher,how were women supposed to influence people on an issue?

A) Work diligently.
B) Get a college education.
C) Demonstrate peace and love.
D) Learn how to shoot a gun.
E) Show the best way to do domestic duties.

Question 48

Why did Freedom's Journal stop publishing?

A) It had its offices ransacked.
B) The newspaper had accomplished its goal of ending slavery.
C) The women editors had been widely harassed on their stand for female equality.
D) The editor felt frustrated that African-Americans would never achieve full rights.
E) Frederick Douglass purchased the newspaper and merged it with his own.

Question 49

Angelina and Sarah Grimké:

A) supported Catharine Beecher's efforts to expand political and social rights for women.
B) critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women.
C) were Pennsylvania-born Quakers whose religion compelled them to oppose slavery.
D) publicly defended the virtues of southern paternalism in lectures to southern women.
E) delivered many public lectures in which they detailed their escape from slavery.

Question 50

The Declaration of Sentiments stated,"He has created a false public sentiment,by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women,by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society,are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man." Which of the following is an example of this sentiment?

A) A woman could not work as a lawyer while a man could.
B) Women were not allowed to vote while many men could.
C) A woman who committed adultery was ostracized more than a man who did this same act.
D) It was frowned upon for a woman to be in the leadership role of an abolitionist society.
E) Women were denied admission to Harvard University.

Question 51

Which book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?

A) An Appeal to Reason.
B) Society in America.
C) Twelve Years a Slave.
D) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
E) Slavery as It Is.

Question 52

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

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 53

Before the Civil War,who came to believe that the U.S.Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

A) Frederick Douglass.
B) William Lloyd Garrison.
C) David Walker.
D) John C. Calhoun.
E) Jennings Randolph.

Question 54

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

A) did not demand voting rights for women because the participants were so divided on that issue.
B) was modeled on the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution.
C) was written primarily by the Grimké sisters.
D) condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.
E) inspired Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to become abolitionists.

Question 55

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:

A) convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.
B) resulted from his leading an anti-abolitionist mob that attacked William Lloyd Garrison.
C) demonstrated that fugitive slaves like Lovejoy faced great dangers while escaping from "slave catchers."
D) was played up by temperance pamphleteers to show the hazards of alcoholism.
E) led Congress to adopt the gag rule to prevent the sort of heated arguments that caused his death.

Question 56

In his speech about the Fourth of July,how did Frederick Douglass critique the founding of the United States?

A) There was no hope for the United States, since many of the founders were slaveowners.
B) The American Revolution was a good starting point for principles of freedom.
C) Religion needed to play a more significant role in the starting of the United States.
D) It was acceptable for Thomas Jefferson to be a slaveholder because he had many accomplishments.
E) The three-fifths clause helped slaves.

Question 57

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

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 58

The gag rule:

A) stated that newspapers could not print antislavery materials.
B) prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.
C) denied women the right to speak in mixed-sex public gatherings.
D) prevented Congregational ministers from preaching against Catholics.
E) was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention to symbolize that women did not have a voice in politics.

Question 59

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

A) countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.
B) presenting the compositions of Henry Highland Garnet to disprove the belief that African culture was inferior because it produced no classical music composers.
C) pointing to Haiti, the scene of the famous slave revolts of the 1790s and 1800s, as a model of civilization.
D) making January 1, the anniversary of the end of the international slave trade, a holiday throughout the North until the end of the Civil War.
E) nominating Frederick Douglass for president in 1852 and winning him Vermont's electoral votes.

Question 60

Frederick Douglass wrote,"When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written,________ will occupy a large space in its pages."

A) newspaper editors
B) black abolitionists
C) freed slaves
D) white abolitionists
E) women

Question 61

How did Margaret Fuller demonstrate that women could be leaders?

A) She headed the Brook Farm commune.
B) She presided over the convention at Seneca Falls.
C) She was elected to the state house.
D) She edited the New York Tribune.
E) She lived in Italy.

Question 62

The ________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

A) Liberty Party
B) Whig Party
C) North Star Party
D) Republican Party
E) Afro-American Party

Question 63

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Elijah Lovejoy

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

Question 64

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Horace Mann

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

Question 65

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
David Walker

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

Question 66

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Question 67

What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840?

A) Getting all slaves freed.
B) Helping free, on average, 5,000 slaves a year.
C) Getting Abraham Lincoln elected president.
D) Making slavery a prominent topic of conversation.
E) Gaining the right to vote for women.

Question 68

The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:

A) Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction.
B) an Amazon, a mighty female warrior of Greek mythology.
C) Queen Elizabeth, who had ruled the British empire with such skill.
D) Molly Pitcher, the patriotic heroine of the American Revolution.
E) Joan of Arc, who led the armies of France into battle.

Question 69

Which state enacted a far-reaching law allowing married women to sign contracts and buy and sell property?

A) New Jersey.
B) Massachusetts.
C) Vermont.
D) Pennsylvania.
E) New York.

Question 70

What was the purpose of the bloomer?

A) It was designed to make single women more physically attractive.
B) It was functional clothing that made work less restrictive.
C) It was made for stage performances in New York.
D) It was military garb for Union soldiers.
E) It was clothing for religious ceremonies.

Question 71

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Margaret Fuller

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

Question 72

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Question 73

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Robert Owen

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

Question 74

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Catharine Beecher

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

Question 75

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840,largely over:

A) whether to nominate William Lloyd Garrison or James G. Birney as the antislavery presidential candidate.
B) the question of abolitionists' taking a public stand on the controversial gag rule.
C) whether African-Americans should be allowed to speak at mixed-race public events.
D) a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work.
E) disagreements concerning the endorsement of colonization.

Question 76

How did men react to the "bloomer" fashion in the 1850s?

A) The paid little notice to women's apparel.
B) They thought it was ridiculous.
C) They criticized it as dangerously provocative.
D) They praised its functionality.
E) They advocated that both men and women should be wearing this apparel.

Question 77

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Sarah Grimké

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

Question 78

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
William Lloyd Garrison

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

Question 79

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

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

Question 80

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
Theodore Weld

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