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Friday, September 13, 2013

US History - Out of Many Ch 13

The Seneca Falls Resolution considered the most radical was the demand for women to have
The right to vote.

The American Colonization Society
Was founded partly by slaveholders from the Upper South.

The abolitionists
Were attacked by antislavery mobs in the North.

All of the following were utopian communities in the United States EXCEPT
Auburn.

The Workingmen's Party
Wanted to save the independent craftsman and his shop.

The results of the market revolution in the cities included
Great increase in the gap between rich and poor.

The political machines
Offered the immigrants some help and a sense of community.

The doctrine behind the social reform movement was
Perfectionism.

The Washington Temperance Societies
Were established by skilled workers.

The story of Angelina and Sarah Grimké shows that in order for them to speak out as equals against slavery it was most necessary that they

The story of Angelina and Sarah Grimké shows that in order for them to speak out as equals against slavery it was most necessary that they
Overcome the cultural subordination of women.

The early advocates of training women to be teachers were motivated by all of the following EXCEPT
The South would not be threatened by female reformers as teachers.

The abolitionists included all of the following EXCEPT
Lyman Beecher.

As the classes became more isolated from each other, the middle class tended to
See poverty and epidemics as God's punishment of the poor.

The blackface minstrel shows before the Civil War
Expressed white racism and nostalgia for the pre-industrial life.

The Mormons became successful for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
They isolated themselves in Utah but took advantage of the Gold Rush.

The percentage of immigrants in the United States population rose from 1.6 percent in the 1820s to
11.2 percent in 1860.

The antiprostitution reformers
Soon recognized prostitution was mainly an economic problem.

The new reform prisons such as "Sing Sing" in New York were intended to
Rehabilitate the prisoners rather than just punish them.

The entertainment offered by the new working class culture included all of the following EXCEPT
Comedies at theaters featuring the Irish as monkeys.

Ethnic neighborhoods such as "Little Germanies" or Chinatowns developed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
The immigrants thought the openness and acceptance of Americans unbelievable.

The Irish immigrants were often opposed and discriminated against for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
They were lazy and unwilling to work.

The correct chronological order of the following events is
New Harmony established, Workingmen's Party started, Mormon Church founded, Liberator first published.

Free African Americans in northern cities faced all of the following EXCEPT
Discrimination in their churches.

The growing activity of urban workers' associations in cities was the result in part of
The feeling among artisans of declining status.

In the 1820s, all of the following were true of the position of free African Americans on slavery EXCEPT
They advocated a greater emphasis on a return to Africa.
The map of the distribution of foreign-born residents in 1860 shows that states with some of the highest percentages of foreign-born workers included all of the following EXCEPT
New Jersey.

Supporters of the Seneca Falls Convention were often people involved in one or more of the following reforms EXCEPT
Gun ownership.

German immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s tended to be
Farmers who formed rural communities in the Midwest.

Free African Americans in northern cities
Were in direct competition with Irish immigrants.

Local labor unions formed the National Trades Union in 1834 and
Criticized the unequal distribution of wealth and the workers' degradation.

On issues such as temperance, reformers, inspired by the evangelical Christianity of Charles G. Finney, tended to be
Moralistic and dogmatic.

Publications such as the "penny press" and stories of Edgar Allan Poe suggest Americans
Were fascinated by the violence around them.

Horace Mann advocated all of the following EXCEPT
Putting abler children into private schools.

All of the following were part of the emerging working class culture in the cities EXCEPT
Community groups composed of people of all social classes.

William Lloyd Garrison broke with Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists split in 1840 because
Douglass and others favored political action.

One of the chief advocates of teacher training for women was
Catherine Beecher.

The social reform movement that swept the country from the 1820s to the 1850s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
It contended that people were sinful and depraved in nature.

One of the groups most involved in supporting the social reform
Middle-class women.

Apocalyptic religions
Are responses to rapid change and hard times such as the Millerites.

In the cities, class lines became much clearer as a result of all of the following EXCEPT
The attitudes and work habits of the immigrant poor.

The General Trades Union
Included only the relatively few white men in skilled trades.

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