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Chapter 11 Self-Quiz 1
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Who were the Grimké sisters?
Abolition activists
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Temperance activists
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Pental reform activists
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Millennialists
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Who were the Shakers?
It was another name for Quakers
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A group that rallied against the Second Great Awakening
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A perfectionists group that believed in united communities
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An abolitionist organization
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The results of wage dependency and the subdivision of labor that marked urban life in the 1830s included
a decrease in homelessness
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lowering of rents
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stratification of neighborhoods by class
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strict child labor laws
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The paid workers of the 1830s urban middle class were employed in jobs that required __________ labor, rather than __________ labor
mental; physical
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physical; mental
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skilled; unskilled
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unskilled; skilled
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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
England
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Germany
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Ireland
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Scotland
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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
Lyman Beecher
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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William Alcott
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William Ellery Channing
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In the late 1840s, labor movements began to focus their efforts on legislative reform; the __________ reemerged as a central point of labor organizing
eight-hour workday
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need for property protections
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need for rent laws
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ten-hour workday
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The new style of incarceration, where inmates were expected to be reformed, were called
penitentiaries
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prisons
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jails
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none of the above
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The first temperance society was formed in 1808 in
Washington, D.C
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Saratoga, New York
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Ossining, New York
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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
"daughters of freemen"
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"mothers of liberty"
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"sisters for social reform"
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"women of rectitude and propriety"
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In her 1837 Essay on Slavery and Abolition, Catharine Beecher accused female abolitionists of
being motivated by unwomanly ambition
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failing to assert themselves more radically
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illegally making contracts in their own names
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misusing donations to antislavery organizations
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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, __________
buying land
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drawing up petitions
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making contracts in their own names
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voting
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In July 1848, abolitionist women spearheaded a drive for an organized women's rights movement, holding a convention in
Boston, Massachusetts
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Seneca Falls, New York
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Utica, New York.
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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
Catharine Beecher
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Lucretia Mott
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Lydia Maria Child
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Prudence Crandall
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The list of resolutions passed by the July 1848 convention on women's rights included all of the following except
a demand for a role in lawmaking
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a demand for access to education
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a demand for improved property rights
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a demand for the right to vote
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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.
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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.
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By the 1830s, master craftsmen often distributed discrete takes to outworkers; this subdividing of labor increased workers' wages and improved the economy.
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Much of the internal migration of the 1830s and 1840s involved city dwellers moving to rural farmlands.
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Penal reform grew out of the anti-Slavery movement.
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