Deck 5: Shifting boundaries: expansion,reform,and Civil War

Question 1

In the 1840s,Elizabeth Cady Stanton lobbied to get the New York legislature to pass a bill that

A) gave women the vote in New York.
B) ended slavery in that state.
C) gave wives control over their inherited wealth.
D) allowed women to initiate divorce.

Answer 1

gave wives control over their inherited wealth.

Question 2

Many female abolitionists were pushed toward advocating women's rights by their realization that

A) female slaves were being sexually exploited by their masters.
B) free women experienced barriers to personhood like those faced by slaves.
C) only women had the moral force to convince slaveowners to emancipate.
D) men did not have the strength and power to fulfill the abolitionist agenda on their own.

Answer 2

free women experienced barriers to personhood like those faced by slaves.

Question 3

In a recurring example of cross-cultural misunderstanding,white emigrants on the Oregon Trail often believed they were under imminent attack by Native Americans when

A) Native groups were actually approaching the wagon trains to demand money and food.
B) Native groups were in fact attempting to guide white settlers past more hostile Native groups.
C) the emigrants saw columns of smoke on the horizon, which they assumed to be signs of homes being burned.
D) the emigrants imagined that herds of buffalo were accompanied by hunting bands of Native Americans.

Answer 3

Native groups were actually approaching the wagon trains to demand money and food.

Question 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852)dramatized

A) Harriet Jacobs's escape from slavery twelve years before.
B) black women's involvement in the abolitionist movement.
C) the unleashing of God's wrath on all slaveowners for the sin of slavery.
D) the dangers facing runaway slaves under the new Fugitive Slave Law.

Question 5

What was one remarkable aspect of women's involvement in the antebellum reform movement?

A) Women's reform societies were in most places racially integrated.
B) Women and men first found common ground in shared leadership of reform societies.
C) As many as 10 percent of women in the Northeast were involved in reform groups.
D) A high percentage of southern white women participated in antislavery activism.

Question 6

The year 1848 was significant in U.S.history because the Mexican War,Seneca Falls Convention,and founding of the Free Soil Party all inaugurated

A) movements that challenged preexisting social boundaries.
B) a backlash against growing industrialization.
C) a period of international conflict.
D) the beginning of antislavery agitation.

Question 7

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 issued a manifesto that in both style and philosophy echoed the Declaration of Independence when it called for

A) abolition of the institution of marriage.
B) equality of men and women before the law.
C) the vote for all people over the age of eighteen.
D) equal distribution of inherited property among sons and daughters.

Question 8

Maria Stewart is significant because she was

A) a leading member of the Underground Railroad and helped free thousands of slaves.
B) the first American woman to criticize slavery in a meeting of men and women.
C) a leader of the temperance movement in the United States for four decades.
D) a leading writer in the Transcendentalist movement who pushed for abolition.

Question 9

What do documents detailing life on the Oregon Trail show?

A) Most men would not have undertaken the journey if their wives had not been enthusiastic.
B) Women's workdays on the trail were generally several hours longer than men's.
C) Women and men shared decision-making responsibility concerning the journey.
D) Women shed some conventional domestic responsibilities, and there were fewer gender-related tasks.

Question 10

In the spring of 1863,the women of Richmond rioted in the streets protesting

A) passage of the Conscription Act.
B) food shortages and triple-digit inflation.
C) increased taxes.
D) the Confederate loss at Gettysburg.

Question 11

What happened to many Native women who left their own people to live with white men in informal sexual and domestic unions at U.S.Army forts or trading centers in the West?

A) Most married the men and helped create a blended culture that included Native and white elements.
B) They quickly succumbed to disease in the cramped forts or trading centers and died.
C) They found white culture bewildering, could not assimilate, and quickly returned to their tribes.
D) They were abandoned when white women arrived and ended up living on the edges of white culture.

Question 12

Prostitution in California in the mid-nineteenth century had a distinct racial hierarchy with which group at the bottom?

A) Mexican women
B) African American women
C) French women
D) Chinese women

Question 13

The work of northern women during the Civil War differed from that of southern women in that they

A) tended to be less personally involved with the military.
B) left support functions to the government.
C) created a national umbrella organization to provide services to the troops.
D) took advantage of the opportunity to gain professional education.

Question 14

The Shakers,founded by Mother Ann Lee,challenged conventional notions of marriage by

A) prohibiting all sexual relations, even within marriage.
B) advocating polygamy, in which men were allowed to have more than one wife.
C) sanctifying extramarital sexuality within the Shaker community.
D) promoting cooperative living and socialist ideology.

Question 15

During the Civil War,northern women activists,such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.Anthony,formed the Women's National Loyal League to

A) help gather female volunteers to serve as nurses.
B) pressure Lincoln to adopt a broader emancipation policy.
C) raise funds to buy food and medicines for northern soldiers.
D) reignite the fight for women's suffrage.

Question 16

Congress responded to the petition drive of female abolitionists in the 1830s by

A) passing the "gag rule," which tabled all antislavery petitions.
B) considering but rejecting a bill to give women the right to vote.
C) simply ignoring the petitions.
D) becoming increasingly hostile toward the woman's movement.

Question 17

What argument drew many women to the temperance movement in the 1840s and 1850s?

A) Protestant Christianity was incompatible with alcohol.
B) Parents who drank would lose the trust of their children.
C) If men could drink, women should be able to as well.
D) A man who stopped drinking would better support his family.

Question 18

What experience was chronicled by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton,a Mexicana who married an American army officer?

A) Women's lives in the California gold mines
B) The life of a Mexican prostitute living in San Francisco
C) The process by which the government confiscated land from Californios
D) The experiences of Native American women living on a reservation

Question 19

Moral reform activists viewed prostitutes as

A) a threat to the health of American families.
B) victims of men's sexual excesses.
C) women whose sexual appetites made them sinners.
D) one more problem that came with increased immigration.

Question 20

The "water cure," a system of cold baths and loose clothing,was offered as comfort to women who

A) had been sexually abused.
B) were infertile.
C) were worn out from too many pregnancies.
D) were alcoholics.

Question 21

What was significant about the work of Harriet Jacobs?

A) She was a leader in the women's rights movement.
B) She played a prominent role in the Underground Railroad.
C) She wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which increased antislavery sentiment.
D) She wrote an autobiography that described the brutality of slavery.

Question 22

During the California gold rush,most middle-class women who traveled with their husbands to the gold-digging sites made money by

A) becoming prostitutes.
B) staking their own claims and panning for gold.
C) taking in piecework from local factories.
D) offering domestic services to single men.

Question 23

What event helped spark women's activism in moral reform societies?

A) The Second Great Awakening
B) The American Revolution
C) The Civil War
D) The Seneca Falls Convention

Question 24

In 1863,New York City was paralyzed by mobs rioting and protesting

A) the passage of the Conscription Act.
B) the Confederate victory at Gettysburg.
C) high food prices and triple-digit inflation.
D) another increase in taxes.

Question 25

What was the major issue facing reformers and the country in the 1850s?

A) Votes for women
B) The spread of slavery
C) Immigration quotas
D) Legalization of unions

Question 26

The Oneida community,which challenged many notions of conventional marriage,earned its greatest notoriety by

A) banning all sexual relations, even within marriage.
B) practicing polygamy, allowing men to have more than one wife.
C) rejecting monogamy and advocating extramarital sexuality.
D) promoting socialist ideology and cooperative labor.

Question 27

What generalization describes the experience of women in the western United States during the period of overland expansion dominated by Oregon Trail migration?

A) Women cooperated across cultural boundaries as they found common ground.
B) Women experienced conflict as members of different cultural groups competed for respectability and dominance.
C) Women of different cultures united to push for the right to vote.
D) Women all saw a gain in status because they were jointly exalted by a new ideology.

Question 28

What two reformers led the fight that convinced the New York legislature to pass a bill that gave wives the right to own and sell property and control their wages?

A) Lucretia Mott and Martha Coffin
B) Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison
C) Lucy Stone and Harriet Beecher
D) Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 29

The call for the immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery and full civil rights for black people came first from

A) white middle-class women.
B) Mormons and Transcendentalists.
C) the Unitarians of Boston.
D) the free black community.

Question 30

The abolitionist Sojourner Truth differed from most other black abolitionists in the 1830s in that she

A) did not come from a religious background and had a secular message.
B) founded her own abolitionist organization, which included only women.
C) was a former slave who did not present a middle-class face to the world.
D) had been born to free parents in the North and was highly educated and well read.

Question 31

By participating in the temperance movement,women were able to

A) argue that they should be allowed to vote.
B) criticize men for their failure to provide for and protect their families.
C) decrease the number of married men who visited prostitutes.
D) assist slaves in the South to escape to the North.

Question 32

What topic is rarely discussed in the journals and letters home written by those who traveled the Oregon Trail?

A) Pregnancy
B) Death
C) Illness
D) Indian attacks

Question 33

Without access to the vote,female abolitionists tried to pressure Congress to end slavery by

A) picketing the Capitol to get congressmen to listen to their demands.
B) pressuring their husbands to vote against legislators who supported slavery.
C) refusing to pay their taxes to a government that supported slavery.
D) gathering thousands of signatures on petitions asking Congress to ban slavery.

Question 34

One reason that northern women were able to organize their relief efforts centrally during the Civil War was that they

A) had equal rights, unlike their southern counterparts.
B) had more experience in running voluntary organizations.
C) had their own independent source of funding.
D) attended coeducational schools and thus had more interaction with men.

Question 35

What was one harmful effect of industrialization that many antebellum female reform societies fought against?

A) The integration and fraternization of men and women in the workplace
B) The education of African American female laborers in northern cities
C) The increase in casual sexual activity among young women in northern cities
D) The rise of communes in the North that preached alternative lifestyles

Question 36

During the moral reform movement in the late 1830s,women emphasized their Christian maternal role and responsibilities in order to

A) avoid attending church on a regular basis.
B) encourage their husbands to build more schools.
C) expand their social authority outside the home.
D) encourage the ordination of female ministers.

Question 37

Antebellum female health activists,responding to women's menstrual,reproductive,and sexual complaints,advocated that

A) more women attend medical schools and study female health issues.
B) male doctors prescribe more pain killers for female complaints.
C) it is in the best interest of women to remain celibate.
D) women ignore regular doctors and adopt alternative therapeutic regimes.

Question 38

The most controversial resolution of the "Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions" passed at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 was that

A) all men and women are created equal.?
B) women should be allowed to work.
C) women had an equal right to vote.
D) women had an equal right to an education.

Question 39

By the mid-nineteenth century,what did white settlers mean to convey when they used the term "squaw"?

A) The distinction between Native American women and other women of color
B) A negative image of Native women
C) A Native American woman who had married a white man
D) A Native American woman of mixed ancestry

Question 40

How did the activities of the Grimké sisters produce a split in the abolitionist movement?

A) Their bravery in leading slaves to freedom led to a split over whether the movement should support defiance of southern law.
B) Their defense of women's equal rights created divisions over the proper role of women in the movement.
C) Their descriptions of slave revolts caused many abolitionists to question the wisdom of freeing slaves.
D) Their radical message caused many southern abolitionist societies to break away from the movement.