US History I Module 11

What did the Grimke sisters convert to when they moved to the North?

Quakerism

What did the Grimke sisters do in 1837 that was scandalous?

they went on a public lecture tour

What led some women to advocate for feminism?

participating in the Abolitionist Movement

Who was the first African American novelist to publish a novel in North America?

Harriet Wilson

What did Sarah Margaret Fuller write?

The First Consideration of Feminism

Which two women activists were turned away from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London?

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony

What was focused on improving property rights, child custody laws, divorce laws, equal wages, equal career opportunities, and voting rights?

The Seneca Falls Convention

What did the convention inspire Amelia Bloomer to use her publication The Lily for?

to advocate for the “emancipation of women”

What was focused on banning alcohol and it’s associated issues?

The Temperance Movement

When was the American Temperance Society formed?

1826

Which Temperance society formed in the 1840s focused on reforming alcoholics?

Washington Temperance Society

What year was the first temperance law passed?

1838

Which religious utopian community was German and led by George Rapp in Pennsylvania?

The Rappites

When did the Rappites move back to Pennsylvania and establish “Economy”?

1825

Which religious utopian community was an offshoot of Quakerism led by Ann Lee?

Shakers

Which religious utopian community supported gender equality because they believed god was both genders?

The Shakers

Which religious utopian community was based on John Noyes’ teachings?

Oneida

Which secular utopian society was a community of intensely individualistic personalities who combined manual labor with intellectual pursuits?

Brooks Farm

Which three influential people was Brook Farm associated with?

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Which secular utopian society was a cooperative society where workers could lead fulfilling lives and was founded by Robert Owen?

Owenites

Which secular utopian society was founded on Charles Fourier’s ideas?

the Fourierists

What was Transcendentalism?

an intellectual movement that advocated for direct knowledge of the self and emphasized individualism

Which two writers criticized transcendentalism?

Herman Melville and Edward Allen Poe

Who started spreading the message of individual personal salvation?

Reverend Charles Grandison Finney

What is the belief that the Kingdom of God would be established on earth and that God would reign on the Earth for a thousand years called?

millennialism

Between what years did church membership double due to revival?

1800 and 1835

Revival prompted slaveholders to encourage what among their slaves?

converting to Christianity

What percentage of William Lloyd Garrison’s readers where free African Americans?

75%

Which Abolitionist burned a copy of the Constitution?

William Lloyd Garrison

Why did Fredrick Douglas have to flee the U.S. after publishing his book?

He’d explicitly exposed the whites who’d brutalized him

What did Sojourner Truth do for the Abolition Movement?

she spread the gospel, fought for women’s and equal rights, and protested Segregation laws

Which two elite groups made up the Economic Elite?

industrial capitalist elites and manufacturing economic elites

What did the middle class value?

cleanliness, discipline, morality, hardworking, education, and good manners

Why was the working class hostile to abolishing slavery and immigration?

it threatened their job security

What made up the first wave of immigration?

half the population of Ireland and an equal number of Germans

how many immigrants came to the U.S. between 1820-1870?

7.5 million

Irish immigrants stayed in the Northeast states, where did the Germans move?

the Midwest

Where did the largest ethnic and anti-Catholic riot break out in 1844?

Philadelphia