Deck 10: Personal Transformations and Public Reforms, 1800-1848

Question 1

Brawling refers to

A)a form of dueling carried out by upper class men.
B)an aggressive form of negotiation carried out by western fur traders.
C)a style of bare-knuckle fighting carried out by white men in the backcountry South to defend their honor.
D)a form of conflict resolution carried out between male slaves.
E)None of these are correct.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Industrial Revolution had little impact on print journalism.​

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Whites who lived in the borderland South​

A)were disconnected from cotton fields and growing markets.
B)developed a very insular culture.
C)were isolated due to a lack of infrastructure.
D)worked all day to meet basic needs.
E)All of these are correct.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Which of the following was common in urban areas like New York City during the first half of the nineteenth century?​

A)competition for work among different racial and ethnic groups
B)violence and discrimination towards African-Americans and immigrants
C)religiously-based clashes between Catholics and Protestants
D)filthy conditions and international trade exposed Americans to global epidemics such as cholera
E)All of these are correct.

Question 5

Religious revivals originated in northeastern urban areas.​

Question 6

In 1800, __________________ percent of the children born in St. Louis were métis, meaning that they had both Indian as well as European ancestors.​

A)40
B)50
C)60
D)70
E)80

Question 7

Among the institutions identified as needing reform in the nineteenth century were schools and prisons.

Question 8

American traders took Indian wives for the purposes of fostering trade networks.

Question 9

Large scale rebellions coordinated by multiple slaves were common in the United States.​

Question 10

An abroad marriage refers to

A)marriages between slave people who lived on different plantations.
B)marriages between white men and Indian women for the purposes of establishing trade networks.
C)marriages between an immigrant and who traveled to the United States and someone in his native homeland.
D)marriages between people of different social classes.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 11

Which of the following is true about slavery in the South?​

A)Most slaves on Southern plantation were from Africa.
B)The experience of slavery did not allow for networks of family and support to form.
C)Even on the plantation there was an isolated sense of domesticity for slave women.
D)Slaves who worked in workshops, stables, or homes avoided some physical strain but were subjected to increased vigilance.
E)Half the slaves in the South lived on plantations that had more than 100 slaves.

Question 12

Nineteenth-century reform movements came about because many saw social ills as incompatible with democracy and the evangelical mission.

Question 13

The notion of domesticity included which of the following?​

A)Domestic labor was regarded highly as an important economic contribution.
B)Women were having more children.
C)The male and female "spheres" were seen as one and the same.
D)The distance between the middle-class and working-class poor neighbors was highlighted.
E)The responsibilities of mothering lost significance as housekeeping became more important​.

Question 14

Which of the following groups did not account for a bulk of the urban population during the first three decades of the nineteenth century?​

A)migrants from rural surroundings
B)free black people
C)urban slaves
D)immigrants from abroad
E)None of these are correct.

Question 15

In the Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan,

A)disease passed quickly through the water supply.
B)the wealthy lived in mansions.
C)banks and other businesses converted the region into a thriving financial district.
D)few immigrants were among the population.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 16

The quick urbanization of a significant portion of the American population happened between

A)1820 and 1850.
B)1810 and 1820.
C)1825 and 1845.
D)1840 and 1860.
E)1800 and 1830.

Question 17

Common schools catered only to the children of the wealthy.​

Question 18

During the nineteenth century, the majority of Americans still lived rural lives.

Question 19

The most significant social hallmark of the middle class was the separation of home and work.​

Question 20

Improved transportation and printing technology allowed for cultural forms to be shared nationally and internationally.

Question 21

Which of the following is not true about the message of evangelical Protestantism in the South?​

A)It stressed the sinfulness of slavery.
B)Women were encouraged to pray but not speak about church business.
C)It stressed the duty of fathers to lead their families to Christian conversion.
D)It stressed obedience on the part of slaves.
E)It stressed the duties that masters had to their slaves.

Question 22

Parlor music​

A)was popular at camp revivals.
B)was popular among the middle class.
C)was popular among African American slaves.
D)was popular among the working class.
E)was popular in the frontier western area of the United States.

Question 23

The American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions​

A)carried out mission trips to Latin America.
B)organized evangelical camp meetings in the frontier.
C)was a political as well as religious organization.
D)sent Protestant missionaries to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
E)was a Catholic organization.

Question 24

The African Methodist Episcopal church

A)was formally recognized in 1816.
B)as the first independent black denomination in the United States.
C)began as an all-black affiliate of a Philadelphia congregation.
D)was created by the Free African Society.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 25

The Mormons​

A)established their church in the late eighteenth century.
B)are also known as the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
C)established themselves as a denomination in Philadelphia.
D)were established by Francis Wright.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 26

The Anglo-Spanish Treaty of 1817 pledged Spain to end slavery north of the equator immediately and south of the equator by

A)1818.
B)1820.
C)1822.
D)1824.
E)1825.

Question 27

The most eager audiences for minstrel shows were

A)white working men.
B)white working women.
C)white middle-class men.
D)white middle-class women.
E)social reformers such as ministers.

Question 28

Mourning culture

A)was embraced by working class Americans.
B)aimed to keep thoughts of death and deceased as far away as possible.
C)was based on the belief that grief helped to awaken Christian sympathy.
D)was popular in the late eighteenth century but lost influence after the beginning of the nineteenth century.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 29

The Shakers​

A)were not a utopian community.
B)were founded in the early nineteenth century.
C)believed in the separation of the sexes.
D)believed that God was male.
E)encouraged sexual relations between married men and women.

Question 30

The Amistad was a​

A)British merchant vessel.
B)French pirate ship.
C)Spanish schooner carrying rebellious and illegal slaves.
D)a fur trading ship that sailed on the Pacific.
E)an American military vessel.

Question 31

Camp meetings were

A)political forums held in rural areas where local residents would discuss current political issues.
B)parties held at rural estates where the upper class would mingle during parties that lasted for days.
C)meetings where Indians and white Americans would negotiate land treaties.
D)outdoor religious revivals where people would sing, pray, and listen to ministers and lay preachers.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 32

Which of the following was not a denominationthat divided over the issue of slavery?

A)the American Presbyterian
B)Mormons
C)Methodist Episcopal
D)Baptist
E)None of these are correct.

Question 33

P. T. Barnum​

A)was an evangelical minister.
B)won fame through his outrageous claims.
C)was a famous song writer.
D)was an early nineteenth-century social reformer.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 34

__________________ , a Transcendentalist, experimented withsolitary existence by moving into Walden Pond.

A)Ralph Waldo Emerson
B)Immanuel Kant
C)Henry David Thoreau
D)Joseph Smith
E)Charles Finney

Question 35

The lyceum movement​

A)encouraged the education of slaves.
B)promoted education through public lectures and debates.
C)reached out specifically to the working class.
D)promoted education but only in the university setting.
E)provided a source of enrichment but was not thought of as a means to reform society.

Question 36

Transcendentalism​

A)was a movement founded in the south.
B)was based on the suppression of romanticism.
C)argued that human reason was the best tool for understanding.
D)argued that humans should seek to transcend their senses and come to understand truth.
E)was a term coined by Henry David Thoreau.

Question 37

According to the notion of perfectionism,

A)women were morally superior than men.
B)Protestants needed to stamp out the influence of other religious groups, namely Catholics.
C)humans can work to free themselves from sin during their lives.
D)God had created humans as perfect beings.
E)only a perfect society can breed perfect humans.

Question 38

Utopian socialism was developed by

A)Robert Owen.
B)Frances Wright.
C)Joseph Smith.
D)Charles Finney.
E)Ann Lee.

Question 39

The penny press​

A)was made possible by the cylinder printing press.
B)covered local crimes and sensational stories.
C)was supported by advertising and sold on street corners.
D)pioneered investigative journalism.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 40

The Second Great Awakening​

A)was a Protestant movement.
B)led to increased church attendance.
C)was based on evangelical Christianity.
D)took place during the early nineteenth century.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 41

Abolitionists used which of the following methods to spread their message?

A)publishing books
B)public speeches​
C)publishing pamphlets
D)petitioning​
E)All of these are correct.

Question 42

Proslavery doctrine drew on __________________  to justify slavery.

A)law
B)religion
C)history
D)racist science
E)All of these are correct.

Question 43

The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled on the​

A)Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen .
B)U.S. Declaration of Independence .
C)Constitution of the United States.
D)Magna Carta .
E)None of these are correct.

Question 44

The Washingtonian Movement

A)was founded in 1840.
B)used stories of lives destroyed by drink as cautionary tales.
C)encouraged abstinence from alcohol.
D)was made up of people from the working class.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 45

Which of the following was not one of the groups of humanity mentioned in Crania Americana?

A)Caucasians
B)Hispanics
C)Mongolians
D)Native Americans
E)Negroes

Question 46

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 freed slaves in the

A)British Empire.
B)Louisiana Territory.
C)Spanish Empire.
D)French Empire.
E)country of Mexico.

Question 47

Scientific racism linked __________________  to character.​

A)physical appearance
B)socioeconomic status
C)level of education
D)national origins
E)None of these are correct.

Question 48

Turner's Rebellion took place in

A)1825.
B)1831.
C)1840.
D)1844.
E)1850.

Question 49

The Christmas Rising was a slave revolt that took place in

A)Barbados.
B)Jamaica.
C)Virginia.
D)Cuba.
E)Puerto Rico.

Question 50

The American Female Reform Society reached out primarily to

A)former slaves.
B)the industrial working class.
C)former prostitutes.
D)middle-class women.
E)the immigrant population.

Question 51

The Seneca Falls Convention was held primarily to advance which cause?​

A)women's rights
B)abolitionism
C)labor rights
D)the asylum movement
E)the temperance movement

Question 52

The Tredegar Iron Works had a __________________  percent enslaved workforce made up mainly of rented slaves.

A)20
B)30
C)40
D)50
E)60

Question 53

Proslavery southerners justified slavery through

A)arguments of paternalism.
B)arguing that they were maintaining the true bonds of caring dependence which had been disrupted elsewhere by industrial growth.
C)arguing that they had committed themselves to supporting enslaved people throughout their lives.
D)accusing northern industrialists of exploiting their laborers.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 54

The idea of polygenesis

A)argued that humans were fundamentally the same.
B)argued that nations built on different cultures are socially and economically stronger.
C)argued that human beings had fundamentally different origins.
D)argued against notions of racism.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 55

The asylum movement was led by

A)Dorothea Dix.
B)Frederick Douglass.
C)Helen Jewett.
D)Samuel Gridley Howe.
E)Sojourner Truth.

Question 56

The Seneca Falls Convention was held in

A)1845.
B)1848.
C)1850.
D)1852.
E)1854.

Question 57

Initially, the Temperance Movement sought to

A)ban slavery.
B)restrict immigration to the United States.
C)convince people to reduce their consumption of alcohol.
D)gain the right to vote for women.
E)encourage church attendance.

Question 58

Phrenologists examined

A)the bumps on one's skull.
B)the pigmentation of one's skin.
C)a person's height.
D)a person's physical strength.
E)the length of a person's limbs.

Question 59

Which of the following is not true about the American Anti-Slavery Society?

A)It was established in 1833.
B)They were committed to the full and immediate abolition of slavery.
C)They had only white members.​
D)They invoked sympathy for slaves.
E)They published a flood of anti-slavery literature.

Question 60

Turner's Rebellion was a revolt led by

A)working class laborers.
B)Native Americans on the frontier.
C)southern planters.
D)slaves.
E)backcountry Southerners.

Question 61

Talk about:  American Board of Commissionersof Foreign Missions

Question 62

Talk about:  millennialism​

Question 63

Talk about:  Shakers​

Question 64

Talk about: Five Points?

Question 65

Talk about:  brawling​

Question 66

Talk about:  Bent's? Fort

Question 67

Talk about:  Second Great Awakening​

Question 68

Talk about:  domesticity​

Question 69

Talk about:  middle class​

Question 70

Talk about:  nativism​

Question 71

Talk about:  Mormons?

Question 72

Talk about:  utopian socialism​

Question 73

Talk about:  secularization​

Question 74

Talk about:  African Methodist Episcopal​

Question 75

Talk about:  perfectionism​

Question 76

Talk about:  utopian communities​

Question 77

Talk about:  abroad marriages​

Question 78

Talk about:  camp meetings​

Question 79

Talk about:  A. P. Chouteau​

Question 80

Talk about:  métis