Chapter 11 Self-Quiz 1

. Who were the Grimké sisters?

. Who were the Shakers?

. The results of wage dependency and the subdivision of labor that marked urban life in the 1830s included

. The paid workers of the 1830s urban middle class were employed in jobs that required __________ labor, rather than __________ labor

. The robust economy of the United States drew increasing numbers of immigrants from Europe in the 1820s through the 1840s. The largest group by far came from

. In a series of six sermons preached in 1825, __________ changed the debate over alcohol: he did not call for absolute abstinence from hard liquor (as had Quakers and Methodists), and he inveighed on his followers to form voluntary associations to drive the demon rum from American society

. In the late 1840s, labor movements began to focus their efforts on legislative reform; the __________ reemerged as a central point of labor organizing

. The new style of incarceration, where inmates were expected to be reformed, were called

. The first temperance society was formed in 1808 in

. In the antebellum era, the young women who had worked and marched at Lowell began to describe themselves as ________ and in that identity edged closer to claiming an independent status as citizens

. In her 1837 Essay on Slavery and Abolition, Catharine Beecher accused female abolitionists of

. In the late 1830s, women could raise money, lobby, and speak in the effort to bring about social reform, but they could not perform the new essential act of reform, __________

. In July 1848, abolitionist women spearheaded a drive for an organized women's rights movement, holding a convention in

. The seasoned Quaker abolitionist __________ and the much younger Elizabeth Cady Stanton were two of the five women who arranged the convention on women's rights that produced the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848

. The list of resolutions passed by the July 1848 convention on women's rights included all of the following except

. Ezra Stiles Ely (chaplain of the Society for Supporting the Gospel) and other city missionaries believed that they could not save people who were not chosen by God, but they believed that the elect could be found even among the poor.

. By 1830, evangelical benevolence had given rise to a Sunday school movement and a movement to prohibit the delivery of mail on the Christian Sabbath.

. By the 1830s, master craftsmen often distributed discrete takes to outworkers; this subdividing of labor increased workers' wages and improved the economy.

. Much of the internal migration of the 1830s and 1840s involved city dwellers moving to rural farmlands.

. Penal reform grew out of the anti-Slavery movement.

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