Deck 12: Antebellum Reform

Question 1

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled most closely on the

A) Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
B) Rights of Man.
C) Declaration of Independence.
D) Declaration of Man and the Citizen.
E) the Bible.

Answer 1

Declaration of Independence.

Question 2

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

A) they felt that the education received there was inadequate.
B) the teachers were not qualified.
C) students were forced to recite Protestant prayers and read the Protestant Bible.
D) they believed their children would be persecuted.
E) they were too poor to buy their supplies.

Answer 2

students were forced to recite Protestant prayers and read the Protestant Bible.

Question 3

In the 1830s Democrats viewed blacks

A) as potential voters.
B) as non-threatening.
C) as racist caricatures.
D) with sympathy.
E) as potential equals.

Answer 3

as racist caricatures.

Question 4

The political party most suspicious of federal attempts to promote internal improvements (canals and turnpikes) was the

A) Federalist.
B) Whig.
C) Democratic.
D) Republican Party of the 1850s.
E) Know Nothing.

Question 5

The Whig party supported all of the following except

A) public suspicion and mistrust of the influence of privileged economic groups on federal policies.
B) moral legislation regulating alcohol consumption.
C) government-supported internal improvements.
D) an active government role in encouraging the expansion of the market economy.
E) public schools.

Question 6

During the 1820s through the 1840s, the Democrats

A) trusted the government to do what was best for the country.
B) favored limitations on government power.
C) called for immigration restrictions in order to protect the jobs of native-born workers.
D) believed the government should legislate to encourage "correct" religious behavior.
E) called for religious training in public schools.

Question 7

The American Colonization Society focused on which aspect of slavery?

A) morality
B) the escalating slave population
C) the psychological affect on the slave population
D) inherent racism
E) all of these choices

Question 8

The leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane was

A) Dorothea Dix.
B) Lydia Maria Child.
C) Sarah Josepha Hale.
D) Caroline Kirkland.
E) Andrew Jackson.

Question 9

To Whigs, markets were

A) likely to inhibit moral and social progress.
B) designed to inspire selfishness and greed.
C) the source of class tension.
D) inclined to discourage laziness and encourage ambition. 
E) none of these choices.

Question 10

The American Colonization Society's opposition to slavery can best be described as

A) courageous and dedicated.
B) noble.
C) half-hearted.
D) hypocritical.
E) nonexistent.

Question 11

One of the leading crusaders against the use of alcohol was

A) Horace Mann.
B) Lyman Beecher.
C) Stephen Douglas.
D) Lydia Maria Child.
E) Andrew Jackson.

Question 12

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

A) Toussaint L'Ouverture.
B) Gabriel.
C) Denmark Vesey.
D) Simon Bolivar.
E) Stono

Question 13

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

A) Republican
B) Democratic
C) Whig
D) Know-Nothing
E) Federalist

Question 14

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

A) Philadelphia.
B) Seneca Falls.
C) Boston.
D) Charleston.
E) New York City.

Question 15

Who was most interested in creating a public school system?

A) William Lloyd Garrison
B) Lydia Maria Child
C) Dorothea Dix
D) Horace Mann
E) Alexander Hamilton

Question 16

Before the 1830s, the largest organization opposed to slavery was

A) American Anti-Slavery Society.
B) William Lloyd Garrison Society.
C) New England Anti-Slavery Society.
D) American Colonization Society.
E) Free Labor Society.

Question 17

Support for abolitionists came from which of the following regions?

A) western New York
B) southern New England
C) northern Ohio
D) northeastern cities.
E) all of these choices

Question 18

By the 1830s, in the northern states

A) many free blacks were openly questioning their subordinate position in society.
B) radical Whig evangelicals questioned racism.
C) official segregation by race was illegal.
D) Quakers were the strongest critics of racial segregation.
E) black children were not allowed to attend school.

Question 19

All of the following statements regarding the Auburn System of prisons are true except

A) prisoners were forbidden to speak to one another at any time.
B) prisoners were required to work to provide their own keep.
C) prisoners were assigned to rooms with multiple inmates bunking together.
D) prisoners were regimented in military-type formation.
E) prisoners were kept in solitary cells to encourage discipline and contemplation.

Question 20

Outside of religious issues, which of the following was another reason the Irish and German immigrants did not want to send their children to school?

A) They did not speak English.
B) These immigrants tended to be poor and needed their children to work.
C) Their children never performed well.
D) They did not have any institution that was similar back home.
E) all of these choices

Question 21

Democrats feared that government would

A) fail to control the rising crime rates.
B) concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few.
C) admit too many immigrants.
D) discourage the growth of the market economy.
E) abolish the national bank.

Question 22

Whigs differed from Democrats in their approach to public schools in that Whigs believed

A) religious instruction should not be included in public schools.
B) schools should be centralized and controlled by state boards of education.
C) schools should be locally controlled.
D) women should not be allowed to teach in the public schools.
E) schools should be integrated.

Question 23

The New York Magdalen Society sought to eliminate

A) prostitution.
B) alcohol use.
C) poverty.
D) childhood disease.
E) capitalism.

Question 24

America's increasing alcohol consumption in the antebellum period was the result of

A) mass marketing campaigns that included free samples of alcohol.
B) the growing number of communal occasions that prompted social drinking.
C) the cheap cost of alcohol.
D) a rising number of women who consumed alcohol.
E) an increasing desire to be intoxicated.

Question 25

All of the following statements regarding the Washington Temperance Society are true except it

A) identified its members as the laboring classes.
B) only accepted short-term drinkers and rejected "hopeless drunks."
C) was avowedly nonreligious.
D) rejected politics and legislation.
E) called for restoring male authority within the family.

Question 26

On the issue of internal improvements, the Democrats

A) opposed funding projects that would raise taxes and increase state debts.
B) favored increased spending as a means of helping isolated manufacturers reach bigger markets.
C) believed that "good roads and good morals" were interrelated.
D) encouraged "partial" policies that aided certain areas and were paid for by other areas.
E) did not take a stand on the issue.

Question 27

The "national drink" was

A) whiskey.
B) beer.
C) rum.
D) wine.
E) vodka.

Question 28

The "common" schools of the 1820s and 1830s

A) were private, tuition-based church schools.
B) were tax-supported public schools that promoted citizenship and moral standards.
C) were popular with immigrant Irish Catholics who had positive memories of similar institutions set up by the English in Ireland.
D) carefully followed the concept of separation of church and state.
E) caused no controversy, as they enjoyed near unanimous support from both political parties.

Question 29

Sarah Grimke argued that

A) women and African Americans were equal.
B) white men and African American men were equal.
C) men and women were equal.
D) immigrants and American citizens were equal.
E) Protestants and Catholics were equal.

Question 30

Which of the following launched the Postal Campaign?

A) temperance movement
B) women's movement
C) abolitionists
D) prison reformers
E) public education reformers

Question 31

Many nineteenth-century northern social reformers believed that criminals, the mentally ill, and poor people

A) were lazy, sinful, devil worshippers.
B) could not be helped by government policies or institutions.
C) should either be drafted into the army or employed in federal work camps.
D) should be deported.
E) had been mistreated as children and could be rehabilitated as adults.

Question 32

The New York Magdalen Society

A) was a Roman Catholic School for girls.
B) set up missions to save and reform prostitutes.
C) blamed social ills on the innate sinfulness of women.
D) encouraged women to set up female-owned and controlled factories and businesses.
E) started orphanages.

Question 33

The most overwhelmingly Democratic group in the country were

A) northern free blacks.
B) immigrant Chinese.
C) native Protestant wage earners.
D) native-born farmers.
E) immigrant Irish Catholics.

Question 34

In the U.S. banking system of the 1830s and 1840s,

A) the federal government issued paper money and controlled interest rates.
B) paper money was eliminated and specie was the only currency in circulation.
C) only gold and silver circulated as money.
D) Democrats in Congress passed laws increasing the amount of paper money and expanding credit for speculators.
E) state-chartered and state-owned banks controlled the amount of money in circulation

Question 35

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

A) blacks and whites were intellectually and morally equal.
B) blacks were less likely than whites to become drunkards and thieves.
C) whites and blacks were actually two separate species.
D) it was impossible to determine the causes of the physical and mental variations among human beings.
E) All races are equal.

Question 36

The temperance crusade of the mid-nineteenth century

A) was primarily a middle-class movement that was strongest in the Northeast.
B) was ignored by the U.S. Army, which continued to issue each soldier a weekly liquor ration.
C) targeted Catholics because they used "real wine" in their services.
D) was promoted by the Democratic Party, which called for a constitutional prohibition amendment.
E) led to more widespread drinking.

Question 37

Horace Mann is most well known for which of the following issues?

A) abolition of slavery
B) support of slavery
C) educational reform
D) prison reform
E) temperance

Question 38

The Whig Party believed that government

A) was an agen t  of moral reform.
B) was a necessary evil.
C) was a corrupting influence on political leaders.
D) offered the most the most effective means of ending slavery.
E) should strengthen the military and embark on overseas expansion.

Question 39

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is most well known for advocating in behalf of

A) the insane.
B) free African Americans.
C) political prisoners.
D) women's rights.
E) immigrants.

Question 40

In the early nineteenth century, whites stereotyped blacks as

A) loyal and self-sacrificing.
B) ignorant.
C) thieves.
D) drunks.
E) all of these choices

Question 41

The New York Magdalen Society blamed prostitution on the brutality and lust of men.

Question 42

The market revolution seemed to increase the number of those dependent upon the state.

Question 43

Most Democrats in the period from 1820 to 1840 were suspicious of any type of paper currency.

Question 44

Almost all Catholic parents wanted their children in public schools.

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

The abolitionist newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison was The North Star.

Question 48

Dorothea Dix advocated the use of flogging and cold showers in the treatment of the insane.

Question 49

Beer was introduced into America by the

A) English.
B) Germans.
C) Irish.
D) Africans.
E) Italians.

Question 50

Of the two major political parties between 1820 and 1840, the Whigs and Democrats, the Democrats were far more likely to promote racism.

Question 51

Irish and German immigrants strongly supported the temperance movement.

Question 52

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

Question 53

Democrats believed in a limited government.

Question 54

The primary membership of the American Colonization Society came from the northern working classes.

Question 55

The term "normal school" referred to state teachers' colleges.

Question 56

Whigs first sought to curb alcohol consumption by focusing on the licenses that permitted retailers and taverns to sell liquor.

Question 57

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

Question 58

The Female Moral Reform Society attempted to teach prostitutes morality and household skills.

Question 59

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

Question 60

Democrats often doubted the value of commerce.

Question 61

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

Question 62

Democrats trusted and supported banks.

Question 63

Many Americans believed there were natural differences based in sex and race.

Question 64

Whigs and Democrats encouraged the aspirations of slaves and free blacks.

Question 65

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

Question 66

A majority of middle-class evangelicals supported abolition.

Question 67

Democrats saw government as a tool of progress.

Question 68

Washingtonians openly identified themselves as members of the working class.

Question 69

The Democrats' approach to prisons emphasized rehabilitation.

Question 70

Harriet Beecher Stowe's husband was involved in the movement for public schools in Ohio.

Question 71

Democrats were more likely than Whigs to approve appropriations for the more expensive and humane moral treatment centers.

Question 72

Southern political divisions had little to do with religion.

Question 73

The American Anti-Slavery Society demanded gradual emancipation of slaves.

Question 74

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

Question 75

Lyman Beecher and Charles Finney supported the abolitionists in the 1830s.

Question 76

Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayed slavery as incompatible with Christianity.

Question 77

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

Question 78

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

Question 79

Herman Melville, a lifelong Democrat, wrote a novel about slave violence and treachery.

Question 80

Democrats believed that because government rested in the hands of imperfect individuals, it had to be limited.