In the nineteenth century, reform movements largely among people who occupied which two groups?
- rural residents
- immigrants
- Northerners
- the
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- Northerners
- the middle class
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists stressed ______.
a. that actions are morally right if they result in the happiness of the greatest number of people in a society
b. the importance of self-improvement, self-reliance, and the presence of God in nature and humanity
c. that human knowledge about the world is limited to our experiences
d. the practicability or utility of ideas rather than their realism
b. the importance of self-improvement, self-reliance, and the presence of God in nature and humanity
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A common element of nineteenth-century utopian communities is that ______.
a. they were predominantly located in the South
b. their members withdrew from mainstream society
c. they arose from the Baptist and Methodist revival movement
d. they served as refuges for people escaping from slavery
b. their members withdrew from mainstream society
What were two outcomes of the Sabbath mails movement?
- It established the idea that Americans were connected both economically and morally.
- It drove many Protestant evangelicals away from their faith.
- It helped organize evangelical reformers.
- Sunday mail delivery was suspended.
- It established the idea that Americans were connected both economically and morally.
- It helped organize evangelical reformers.
In what way were prisons like Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary innovative for their time?
a. They required inmates to perform hard labor that was sold to private contractors.
b. They abolished practices like solitary confinement and enforced silence.
c. They provided education and job-training programs for inmates.
d. They sought to remake inmates into law-abiding citizens by encouraging them to repent their misdeeds.
d. They sought to remake inmates into law-abiding citizens by encouraging them to repent their misdeeds.
Nineteenth-century reform movements reflected which three concerns of the American middle class?
- worries about the potentially corrupting influences of cities and commerce
- fears about threats to the social order by manual workers with different lifestyles and values
- apprehensions that a two-party political system did not adequately represent all Americans
- concerns that children were socially equipped to succeed in the new economy
- worries about the potentially corrupting influences of cities and commerce
- fears about threats to the social order by manual workers with different lifestyles and values
- concerns that children were socially equipped to succeed in the new economy
Beginning in the 1820s, middle-class Americans began _____ as part of the lyceum movement.
a. enrolling in formal education
b. living in cooperative utopian communities
c. undertaking missionary work in the West
d. attending lectures
d. attending lectures
In the 1800s, the term "teetotaler" referred to someone who ______.
a. considered themselves self-reliant and morally upright
b. had fallen into debt because of gambling
c. had pledged to completely abstain from drinking alcohol
d. could speak intelligently on a wide range of subjects
c. had pledged to completely abstain from drinking alcohol
What were three benefits that nineteenth-century reformers believed could be gained from voluntary associations?
- Groups encouraged sociability.
- Groups made people less likely to challenge the status quo.
- Groups strengthened peer cultures.
- Belonging to a group made it easier for people to improve themselves.
- Groups encouraged sociability.
- Groups strengthened peer cultures.
- Belonging to a group made it easier for people to improve themselves.
Which of the following was true of temperance fiction?
- It illustrated the dangers of alcoholism in a sensationalist way.
- It offered blissful and idealized portraits of sober individuals.
- It was primarily written by women.
- It was very popular.
- It illustrated the dangers of alcoholism in a sensationalist way.
- It was very popular.
In the early 1800s, Sabbatarians mounted a campaign to ______.
a. bar the transmission of mail on Sunday
b. block the construction of factories in the Hudson Valley
c. establish special Sunday school services for children
d. establish gradual abolition laws in the Upper South
a. bar the transmission of mail on Sunday
As part of a broader ethic of bodily self-control, nineteenth-century reformers sought to ______.
- reduce the amount of sugar in the American diet
- discourage alcohol consumption
- promote exercise as a public health initiative
- convince middle-class men to control their sexual appetites
- discourage alcohol consumption
- convince middle-class men to control their sexual appetites
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In the 1830s and 1840s, the antigallows movement focused on abolishing ______.
a. prisons
b. the death penalty
c. mail delivery on Sundays
d. slavery
b. the death penalty
Almost all abolitionists, both white and Black, also ______.
a. advocated universal public education
b. promoted temperance
c. championed voting rights for women
d. sought to improve the lives of the urban poor
b. promoted temperance
Groups like the Washingtonians and the Martha Washington Societies sought members who ______.
a. would sign pledges to abstain from alcohol
b. sought to build a national museum of American history
c. wanted to improve educational opportunities for children
d. worked to elect pro-slavery politicians
a. would sign pledges to abstain from alcohol
Britain's Emancipation Act of 1833, which ended slavery in the West Indies, ______.
- provided compensation to slaveholders
- provided compensation to the formerly enslaved
- was a direct model that American abolitionists sought to emulate in the 1830s
- required enslaved people to continue to provide unpaid labor for six years after they were "freed"
- provided compensation to slaveholders
- required enslaved people to continue to provide unpaid labor for six years after they were "freed"
Which famous nineteenth century American poet's career began with the publication of "Franklin Evans, or, The Inebriate" (1842)?
a. Edgar Allen Poe
b. Walt Whitman
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b. Walt Whitman
Slave narratives were:
a. transcripts of interviews with formerly enslaved people.
b. autobiographical accounts by formerly enslaved people.
c. legal testimonies by formerly enslaved people against their enslavers.
d. sensationalist novels designed to promote the abolitionist cause.
b. autobiographical accounts by formerly enslaved people.
Beginning in the 1830s, reformers launched an aggressive campaign against _____, which they referred to as "the secret vice."
a. extramarital sex
b. masturbation
c. viewing pornography
d. homosexuality
b. masturbation
Which groups of people were often leaders of violent anti-abolitionist riots that occurred in the North in the 1830s?
- white Southerners who traveled to Northern cities to cause civic unrest
- Democratic politicians eager to maintain their coalition with Southerners
- prominent members of the community
- urban factory workers who feared competition from formerly enslaved people
- Democratic politicians eager to maintain their coalition with Southerners
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