Chapter 12 Hist

The ________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Owen promoted communitarianism so that workers received the full value of their labor.

Black abolitionists developed an understanding of freedom that went well beyond that of most of their white contemporaries.

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after:

Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments?

What was most significant about Theodore Weld's argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery?

The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

Common schools:

The Oneida community:

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as the women's "sphere."

What prompted the debate between Catherine Beecher and the Grimké sisters?

Although it was an exciting miniature university, the transcendentalists' Brook Farm community failed in part because many of the intellectuals who participated disliked farm labor.

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

At Oneida, celibacy was strictly enforced.

Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women?

What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840?

The American Temperance Society directed its efforts at the drunkards but not the occasional drinker.

In regard to utopian communities, how do spiritually oriented groups compare to societies with a worldly orientation?

Which statement about the Shakers is true?

The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice, freedom, and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

The Shakers believed God had a dual personality, both male and female.

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:

Dorothea Dix advocated better treatment of the mentally insane.

How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society?

As women began to take an active role in abolition, public speaking for women became socially acceptable to most Americans.

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

Abolitionists consciously identified their movement with the heritage of the American Revolution.

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

What inspired Noyes's idea of achieving perfection?

Frederick Douglass wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ________ will occupy a large space in its pages."

Most African-Americans enthusiastically favored the colonization idea and moving to Africa.

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

Although it was an exciting miniature university, the transcendentalists' Brook Farm community failed in part because many of the intellectuals who participated disliked farm labor.

Who founded the Shakers?

The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice, freedom, and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

How did the fairs of abolitionists expand on the Christmas holiday?

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

Nearly all abolitionists, despite their militant language, rejected violence as a means of ending slavery.

In addition to trying to end slavery, abolitionists from 1830 to 1860 pioneered what?

How did men react to the "bloomer" fashion in the 1850s?

Although it lasted only a few years, the New Harmony community:

Institutions like jails, mental hospitals, and public schools were inspired by the conviction that those who passed through their doors could eventually be released to become productive, self-disciplined citizens.

Why did Freedom's Journal stop publishing?

About ________ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Mob attacks and attempts to limit abolitionists' freedom of speech convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans.

Abolitionists agreed with the labor movement's argument that workers were subjugated to "wage slavery."

How did Robert Owen first establish himself?

In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement.