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Liberty HIUS 221 Quiz 6
1. What did the popularity of sentimental novels and the board game “The
Mansion of Happiness” reveal about the cult of true womanhood?
2. What quality was shared by those who engaged in utopian social
experiments and more conventional social reformers?
3. A supporter of temperance believed
4. What was the Second Great Awakening?
5. Such reformers as Mary Gove and Paulina Wright were interested in
6. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 marked the beginning of
7. Who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints?
8. Reformers such as minister Lyman Beecher cast the problem of
intemperance in
9. Which is the best summary of the doctrine of coverture?
10.The “gag rule” was a procedural motion that
11.The importance of festivities combining work and leisure to traditional
community life most likely indicated that before the market revolution,
12.Why might a rural woman choose to do outwork instead of working at the
Lowell Mills?
13.During the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest proportion of immigrants to the
United States came from
14.By 1860, free blacks accounted for what percentage of the South’s African
American population?
15.Most Southern Whites were yeoman farmers who
16.All of the following are true of marriages among slaves EXCEPT that
17.In the first half of the nineteenth century, why was a city like St. Louis
poised for growth?
18.Before 1815, most American farmers
19.Which of the following is accurate regarding the rights of free blacks in the
South?
20.By 1840, which means of transportation had the greatest impact on the speed
2. with which goods and people could move around the country?
21.How did the creation of a market economy affect many farmers in the early
nineteenth century?
22.Unlike their counterparts in the North, Southern yeoman farmers did not
have access to
23.As a result of the wider availability of printed material,
24.What was one important factor in the rise of prostitution during the
nineteenth century?
25.How did the approach to imprisoning criminals at a penitentiary differ from
earlier approaches?
26.Which of the following best describes the stance of Henry David Thoreau,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville to contemporary American
society?
27.Abolitionists responded to Hiram Powers’ statue The Greek Slave by
28.Which of the following would most certainly be a proponent of
immediatism?
29.According to the video presentation, what is the belief that man is sinful, but
can be perfected through a moderate and moral lifestyle in adherence to
God’s precipices?
30.According to the video presentation, what was the Great Disappointment?
31.What factors led to the transformation of Southern attitudes toward slavery?
32.Which group would have been most likely to appreciate the aesthetic of
Thomas Cole’s paintings?
33.What did the Millerites anticipate first in March 1843 and later on October
22, 1844?
34.All of the following were supporters of women’s rights EXCEPT
35.Horace Mann’s most notable contributions were in the field of
36.What is millennialism?
37.Why might slave religion be regarded as a form of resistance?
38.What development enabled such cities as New York, Philadelphia, and
Boston to grow into large metropolises?
39.What caused the dramatic increase in the number of books, newspapers, and
magazines in early nineteenth‐century America?
40.All of the following are true of Southern planters EXCEPT that
41.The writings of plantation mistresses show their lives to have been
42.Which of the following does NOT characterize the New York neighborhood
3. of Five Points?
43.As a result of the wider availability of printed material,
44.How did the market revolution affect skilled artisans?
45.What did a neighborhood like Gramercy Park reveal about the urban elite?
46.According to Orson S. Fowler, what was the advantage of an octagon-
shaped house?
47.Which of the following best describes the view of such Southerners as
Thomas R. Dew toward slavery?
48.Why did architects such as Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander
Jackson Davis reject the Greek Revival style?
49.According to the video presentation, who is the founder of the Church of
Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints?
