The Unfinished Nation, Chapter 12 Flashcards

7107163047	A catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention in 1840 that dealt with	abolition.	0
7107163048	A former slave, __________ __________ founded an antislavery newspaper and wrote his autobiography.	Frederick Douglass	1
7107163049	Abolitionists successfully funded the legal battle and repatriation of Africans who seized the __________, a Spanish slave ship.	Amistad	2
7107163050	All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT	James Whistler.	3
7107163051	All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT	Sydney Smith.	4
7107163052	All of the following were American authors creating distinctively American literature EXCEPT	Asher Durand.	5
7107163053	Americans contributed which of the following advances to medical science in the 1800s?	-William Morton's use of either as an anesthetic. -Oliver Wendell Holmes's discovery that disease could be transmitted from person to person.	6
7107163054	Both Perfectionists and Shakers	redefined traditional gender roles.	7
7107163055	Due to their commitment to _____, all Shakers had to choose the faith for themselves.	celibacy	8
7107163056	During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the	absence of basic knowledge about disease.	9
7107163057	Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was	"The Raven".	10
7107163058	Edgar Allan Poe's work focused on individuals who were experiencing	emotions of sadness and terror.	11
7107163059	How did Americans respond to the cholera epidemics of the 1830s and 1840s?	-Threats to public health led to increased interest in new health theories. -Community health boards were created to address the spread of disease.	12
7107163060	How did anti-abolitionist sentiments affect the abolitionist movement in the late 1830s?	Increased violence toward abolitionists created factions within the movement.	13
7107163061	How did free blacks in the North feel toward the slaves?	They were empathetic and became actively involved in the abolition movement.	14
7107163062	How did Henry David Thoreau's beliefs shape his relationship with government?	He refused to support any government that did not match his personal morals.	15
7107163063	How did William Lloyd Garrison negatively affect the abolitionist movement?	His positions became radical, which troubled many in the movement.	16
7107163064	In his youth, Ralph Waldo Emerson	was a Unitarian minister, until he left the clergy in 1832.	17
7107163065	In "Nature" (1836), __________ __________ __________ described a quest for fulfillment through communion with the natural world.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	18
7107163066	In order to practice his philosophy of withdrawing from society to live a simple life, Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin	near Walden Pond.	19
7107163067	In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted	a small percentage of the national population.	20
7107163068	In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society	was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery.	21
7107163069	In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism	None of these answers is correct.	22
7107163070	In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature	was that American artists had little to offer Europe.	23
7107163071	In the Oneida Community, women were protected from unwanted _____, while the most distinctive feature of Shakerism was _____.	childbearing: celibacy	24
7107163072	In the West, missionaries established schools for American Indians, believing that	Indians could be "civilized" by learning how to assimilate to white culture.	25
7107163073	One of the first communities of transcendentalists was	Brook Farm.	26
7107163074	One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was	Oneida.	27
7107163075	Popular nineteenth-century American painting aimed to capture	the wonder and awe of rugged, wild landscapes.	28
7107163076	Prior to 1860, public education in the United States	gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.	29
7107163077	Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be	strongly opposed to southern slavery.	30
7107163078	Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party	promoted "free soil".	31
7107163079	Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the	Quakers.	32
7107163080	Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a	desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.	33
7107163081	Romantic authors in the South were more likely than writers in the North to	defend the southern way of life, including slavery.	34
7107163082	Shaker societies	saw women exercise more power than men.	35
7107163083	Solitary confinement was meant to give prisoners opportunities to meditate on their wrongdoings and develop "__________."	penitence	36
7107163084	Southern antebellum writers often wrote	historical romances.	37
7107163085	The antislavery movement in the early 1800s was based on the idea of	colonization.	38
7107163086	The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was	David Walker.	39
7107163087	The early feminist movement began at a world antislavery convention when	American women delegates were turned away.	40
7107163088	The first great American school of painters was known as the __________ __________ School.	Hudson River	41
7107163089	The founders of the Perkins School for the Blind believed that	even the blind or handicapped could discover inner strength and wisdom.	42
7107163090	The great network of institutions and charitable services for handicapped individuals that developed during the prewar years was known as the	Benevolent Empire.	43
7107163091	The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of	natural beauty.	44
7107163092	The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was	Dorothea Dix.	45
7107163093	The meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848 generated a statement on women's rights patterned on the	Declaration of Independence.	46
7107163094	The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century	considered untamed nature the best source of inspiration......????	47
7107163095	The nineteenth-century Protestant revivalist movement, known as the __________ __________ Awakening, was based on the idea that everyone was capable of salvation and spiritual rebirth.	Second Great	48
7107163096	The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to	permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings.	49
7107163097	The prison reform movement sought to rehabilitate inmates through	-solitary confinement. -silence on prison work crews.	50
7107163098	The pseudoscience of __________ made inferences about individuals' intelligence and character by studying the shape of their skull.	phrenology	51
7107163099	The Second Great Awakening combined which two elements of nineteenth-century American culture?	-reform movements. -Protestant revivalism.	52
7107163100	The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)	led to the passage of "personal liberty laws".	53
7107163101	The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works of	Mark Twain.	54
7107163102	The transcendentalists defined reason as an individual's	capacity to grasp truth and beauty by expressing emotions.	55
7107163103	The transcendentalists defined understanding as an individual's	capacity to repress instincts and to use the intellect to learn by rote.	56
7107163104	The transcendentalists viewed nature as a	source of deep personal inspiration.	57
7107163105	The transcendentalists were among the first Americans to	anticipate the environmental movement of the twentieth century.	58
7107163106	Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of	America's westward expansion.	59
7107163107	Uncle Tom's Cabin gained national popularity in the mid-nineteenth century by being reproduced in which of the following forms?	-theatrical production. -novel.	60
7107163108	Upon which document in American History is the language of the Declaration of Sentiments based?	Declaration of Independence	61
7107163109	Walt Whitman's poetry helped make _____ one of the defining ideals of antebellum America.	individualism	62
7107163110	What has been the effect of marriage on women, according to the document?	Husbands essentially become masters.	63
7107163111	What is the effect on the morality of women that results from male privileges, according to the Declaration?	Women become irresponsible.	64
7107163112	What is the position of the Declaration of Sentiments on the question of female suffrage?	It is an inalienable right.	65
7107163113	What most distinguished James Fenimore Cooper as a truly American novelist?	He celebrated the American wilderness.	66
7107163114	What was the biggest problem facing American medicine in the first half of the nineteenth century?	Doctors had little understanding of how disease was spread.	67
7107163115	What was the result for women who owned property in their own name?	They were taxed without representation.	68
7107163116	What was unique about William Lloyd Garrison's philosophy of abolition?	-He believed abolitionists should view slavery from the point of view of slaves. -He believed that the antidote to slavery was full American citizenship for all slaves.	69
7107163117	Which of the following accurately describe transcendentalists' mode of communal living?	-They used manual labor to transition from a world of intellect to the natural world. -They equally shared in the labor so each could have leisure time to cultivate the self.	70
7107163118	Which of the following best describes formal schooling in the South before the Civil War?	African Americans were barred from formal education, and only one-third of white children were enrolled in schools.	71
7107163119	Which of the following best describes the proportion of northerners who were pro-abolition?	a small minority	72
7107163120	Which of the following best describes the state of public education in 1830?	No state had a system of universal public education.	73
7107163121	Which of the following best reflects white male abolitionists' attitudes toward female abolitionists?	It was inappropriate for women to be outspoken activists.	74
7107163122	Which of the following is NOT a Mormon belief?	Life-long celibacy is important.	75
7107163123	Which of the following major writers of the antebellum period was a southerner?	Edgar Allan Poe	76
7107163124	Which of the following statements is true of free blacks living in the North in 1850?	They were at times poorer than slaves in the South.	77
7107163125	Which of the following was NOT a demand made in the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"?	Women should have their own social spheres.	78
7107163126	Which of the following was NOT a health fad in the antebellum years?	antibiotics	79
7107163127	Which of the following was NOT a reason that many northern whites were against abolition?	The abolition movement was rapidly gaining ground among whites in the South.	80
7107163128	Which of the following was NOT an idea Walt Whitman celebrated in his work?	urban living	81
7107163129	Which of the following were goals established at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention for women's rights?	-the right to vote. -equality with men.	82
7107163130	Which of the following were NOT reforms implemented by Horace Mann?	-making school attendance mandatory for individuals under 16. -lengthening the academic year to nine months.	83
7107163131	Which of the following were problems for doctors in the early 1800s?	-Many traditional physicians mistrusted innovation and experimentation. -They were not highly regarded in their communities. -Many of their peers were quacks or poorly educated.	84
7107163132	Which of the following women were among the leaders of the nineteenth-century feminist movement?	-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -Susan B. Anthony. -Dorothea Dix.	85
7107163133	Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?	It advocated sexual equality.	86
7107163134	Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?	Walt Whitman	87
7107163135	Who led the migration of 12,000 Mormons from Illinois to what would become Salt Lake City, Utah?	Brigham Young	88
7107163136	Who wrote the 1841 novel The Deerslayer?	James Fenimore Cooper	89
7107163137	Why did early efforts to end slavery by repatriating slaves fail?	Many African Americans were not interested in emigrating to Africa.	90
7107163138	Why did many of the early feminists also identify as Quakers?	-Many Quaker preachers and community leaders were women. -Many Quakers believed in sexual equality.	91
7107163139	Why is the rhetoric of this document so effective?	The language is based historically on the Declaration of Independence.	92