Chapter 11 Winter Break Assignment. Also, complete Comparing American Voices on pg and Voices from Abroad on 358.

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1 Chapter 11 Winter Break Assignment Along with the following questions, you should answer the review questions on pgs. 335, 344, 354, 359, 360. Also, complete Comparing American Voices on pg and Voices from Abroad on 358. Chapter 11: Section Identification Quiz 1 Individualism: The Ethic of the Middle Class 1. Transcendentalism owed much of its inspiration to a European movement known as a. individualism. b. communalism. c. Romanticism. d. Fourierism. e. abolitionism. 2. Emerson was the most popular speaker on the circuit. a. transcendentalist b. moral reform c. Seneca Falls d. Lyceum e. Liberty Party 3. Whitman s 1855 poetic celebration of American democracy is called a. Leaves of Grass. b. The American Scholar. c. The Liberator. d. Brook Farm. e. The Scarlet Letter. 4. Two major works of the 1850s that lauded social restraint and criticized individualism were a. The Liberator and Walden, or Life in the Woods. b. The Book of Mormon and The Scarlet Letter. c. Walden, or Life in the Woods and The Liberator. d. Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter. e. The Scarlet Letter and The Book of Mormon. 5. The leading voice of transcendentalism, a former minister who moved to Concord, Massachusetts, was a. Henry David Thoreau. b. Ralph Waldo Emerson. c. Walt Whitman.

2 d. Charles Grandison Finney. e. James G. Birney. 6. Henry David Thoreau named his most famous book after, where he went to experiment with a life of self-reliance. a. Walden Pond b. Brook Farm c. Seneca Falls d. Oneida e. Nauvoo 7. The feminist author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, who in 1844 proclaimed a new era of gender relations, was a. Harriet Beecher Stowe. b. Susan B. Anthony. c. Dorothea Dix. d. Margaret Fuller. e. Lucretia Mott. 8. The novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about excessive individualism in his 1850 novel a. Moby Dick. b. Walden, or Life in the Woods. c. The Scarlet Letter. d. The Dial. e. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Chapter 11: Section Identification Quiz 2 Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture 1. Joseph Smith said he translated from ancient hieroglyphics. a. The Book of Mormon b. Transcendentalism c. The Liberator d. The Bible against Slavery e. The Scarlet Letter 2. Phalanxes were based on the ideas of the French utopian a. Arthur Brisbane. b. Charles Fourier. c. Ann Lee Stanley. d. Alexis de Tocqueville. e. Henry David Thoreau.

3 3. The founder of Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes, sought to organize his community through the practice of a. polygamy. b. patriarchy. c. celibacy. d. communalism. e. complex marriage. 4. After the murder of Joseph Smith, led Mormon settlers to the Great Salt Lake Valley. a. David Walker b. Brigham Young c. James Buchanan d. Walt Whitman e. Arthur Brisbane 5. Mother Ann s followers were known as a. Mormons. b. Transcendentalists. c. Quakers. d. Shakers. e. Oneidans. 6. The city of was the most important center of urban popular culture in the United States. a. Baltimore b. Philadelphia c. San Francisco d. New York Chapter 11: Section Identification Quiz 3 Abolitionism 1. encouraged Congress to restrict abolitionist use of the mail system. a. William Lloyd Garrison b. James G. Birney c. Andrew Jackson d. Henry Clay e. Lewis Tappan

4 2. The informal network of whites and free blacks in cities throughout the South who aided escaped slaves in their painstaking journey north was called the a. Liberator. b. Anti-Slavery Society. c. Underground Railroad. d. northern express. e. freedom train. 3. In his An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, justified and advocated slave rebellions. a. William Lloyd Garrison b. Theodore Weld c. Richard Allen d. David Walker e. Arthur Tappan 4. The major financial backers of the American Anti-Slavery Society were a. James G. Birney and William Lloyd Garrison. b. Theodore Weld and Lucretia Mott. c. Arthur and Lewis Tappan. d. Benjamin Lundy and Arthur Brisbane. e. Angelina and Sarah Grimké. 5. Henry David Thoreau wrote in that individuals could redeem themselves by resisting government through loyalty to a higher moral law. a. The Bible against Slavery b. Walden, or Life in the Woods c. The Liberator d. Resistance to Civil Government e. American Slavery as It Is Chapter 11: Section Identification Quiz 4 The Women s Rights Movement 1. convinced one state legislature after another to expand state hospitals in order to accommodate the mentally ill. a. Lydia Finney b. Dorothea Dix c. Sarah Grimké d. Susan B. Anthony e. Lucretia Mott 2. The national women s rights convention of 1851 declared that was the cornerstone of the goals of the women s movements.

5 a. property rights b. abolition c. moral reform d. suffrage e. complex marriage 3. Through their experiences in the movement, the Grimké sisters came to assert the equality of men and women. a. moral reform b. abolition c. suffrage d. temperance e. utopian 4. Women at the Seneca Falls convention based their declaration of principles on a. the Declaration of Independence. b. transcendentalism. c. abolitionism. d. the Constitution. e. The Book of Mormon. 5. was the first state to adapt legislation giving women full legal control over the property they brought to a marriage. a. Ohio b. Kentucky c. New York d. Massachusetts e. Michigan Henretta 7 OSG Ch 11 SelfTest 1 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality because he wanted them to a. experience an evangelical Christian conversion experience. b. join moral reform movements for temperance, maintain the Sabbath, and support the abolition of slavery. c. celebrate individualism and energize the American spirit. d. seek individual wealth through hard work. 2. Emerson s ideas most closely resembled a. Garrison s abolitionism. b. Charles Grandison Finney s moral free agency. c. John Humphrey Noyes s complex marriage. d. the Shakers communalism.

6 3. Herman Melville came to the conclusion that extreme individualism led to a. transcendence. b. a mystical relationship with nature. c. a preoccupation with material goods. d. madness and death. 4. Brook Farm failed in large part because it a. attracted intellectuals with few practical skills. b. promoted leisure. c. failed economically. d. was attacked by antiabolitionists. 5. Margaret Fuller s greatest contribution to transcendental philosophy was her a. belief that men and women were equally capable of transcendence. b. editing of the journal, the Dial. c. transcendentalist treatise, Leaves of Grass. d. work on the Seneca Falls Declaration. 6. Ideas that the Shakers supported include all of the following except a. celibacy. b. abstention from alcohol. c. complex marriage. d. abstention from politics and war. 7. Arthur Brisbane promoted the concepts of cooperative work and the phalanx in a. Walden, or Life in the Woods. b. The American Scholar. c. the Dial. d. The Social Destiny of Man. 8. Perfectionists believed that freedom from sin was possible a. if people isolated themselves from society. b. if people practiced celibacy. c. because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred. d. for communities that practiced group ownership of property. 9. The Mormon practice of polygamy a. was opposed by some within their church as well as non-mormon Christians outside it. b. was an example of their desire to achieve perfection. c. represented their attempt to reject patriarchal authority. d. created a strong wave of support for Mormons from other communitarian religions.

7 10. Urban popular culture was based on a. upper class professional attempts to extend elite culture to the white working class. b. the thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure. c. Native American and Asian American interactions in cities. d. the immigration of thousands of British people to the United States. 11. All of the following describe the urban sex scene in New York City in the early 1800s except a. men and women engaged in serial dating until they found an ideal mate. b. men and women dressed in the latest fashions to enhance their allure. c. a homosexual subculture did not exist. d. men and women were freed from parental oversight. 12. Free blacks in the North sought to encourage emancipation and race equality through all of the following except a. the bribing of southern slaveholders. b. stressing temperance and education for free blacks. c. justifying violent slave revolts. d. encouraging legal resistance. 13. Between 1836 and 1844, the federal government responded to abolition by a. limiting the debate in Congress of antislavery petitions. b. supporting the abolitionists mail campaign. c. passing antislavery legislation. d. outlawing slavery in the District of Columbia. 14. The most common response of white Americans to the abolition movement was a. their signing of petitions in support of abolition. b. their refusing to pay taxes out of civil disobedience in order to attain the emancipation of slaves. c. violence against abolitionists. d. opposition to the movement. 15. William Lloyd Garrison s insistence on broadening the abolitionist agenda split the organization by pushing out those who a. did not support women s rights. b. did not support violent slave rebellions. c. did not want to promote race-mixing. d. wanted African colonization. 16. Moral reform was primarily a women s movement to

8 a. end prostitution. b. restrict the consumption of alcohol. c. enforce Sabbath rules. d. work for antislavery. 17. Conversations on Common Things (1824) was written by a. Margaret Fuller. b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. c. Sarah Grimk. d. Dorothea Dix. 18. An early public education reformer was a. Nat Turner. b. David Walker. c. Horace Mann. d. William Lloyd Garrison. 19. All of the following are true regarding women teachers and public education in the mid-1800s except a. most teachers were men by the 1850s. b. women were considered morally superior to men as teachers. c. women were paid lower salaries than men as teachers. d. local school boards favored women teachers over men. 20. In 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina, a mob attacked a post office for what reason? a. Native Americans were using the post office. b. Abolitionist pamphlets were being delivered by the post office. c. Women were hired as postmasters. d. Mormon literature was being distributed by the post office.