AMST 201 Midterm

What is this the definition of? Closely connected to the cult of domesticity, this ideology suggests that women in the 18th century should embody piety, purity and submissiveness.

Cult of true womanhood

Fill in the blank…Through Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, we learned that _______ was a form of expression and communication amongst the slaves.

Music

What is this term? Refers to the brutal sea voyage that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade.

The Middle Passage

Who identified the frontier in 1893 as the most decisive factor in shaping American political and social institutions and in creating a specifically American national character?

Frederick Jackson Turner

According to Dana Huntley, ______ was a highly profitable cash crop which propelled the colony of Jamestown, Virginia to prosperity.

Tobacco

What is often referred to as this "peculiar institution" specific to shaping the American South?

Slavery

How did Mary Gaffney rebel and resist the expectation that she would give birth to children who would be born into slavery?

Ate cotton as a contraceptive refused to have children when enslaved, chose to stay married

Fill in the blank… For Puritans in 17th century New England, the belief in _____ guided their actions.

Pre-destination

What is this the definition of? The idea that we are unique as a nation, which was supported by the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine.

American Exceptionalism

Fill in the blank… More than one million people from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri settled in California during the 1930s and 1940s in what is known as the ______ ________ __________

Dust bowl Migration

What term is used to describe the idea that the United States of America has always been destined to spread ideals of democracy and capitalism across North America?

Manifest Destiny

Fill in the blank… According to Nancy Cott in The Bonds of Womanhood, the cult of _______ gave women "a limited and sex-specific role to play, primarily in the home."

Domesticity

Fill in the blank… According to ________ the struggles of the Dust Bowl migrants seemed to suggest a pathetic failure of the American Dream, a failure of all the promises of opportunity that formed its vital core.

James Gregory

What film viewed in class (partially or in full) displays the themes of…

-Racism in the Deep South

-Involvement of the Ku Klux Klan in violent attacks against both white and black supporters of equality.

-A court case where a black man is found not guilty of murdering two white men who raped and tortured his 10-year-old daughter.

A Time to Kill

True or False? At least 10% of Black leaders elected during the 1867 - 1868 constitutional conventions were victims of violence.

True

Fill in the blank… While the patriarchy mindset was based on rule of the fathers, _______ reflected a mindset shift to kindly protection from fathers or men in positions of authority.

Paternalism

Frederick Jackson Turner argued that westward expansion and the challenges presented by the frontier and settlement had encouraged the American traits of what?

Individualism, adaptability, democracy

According to James Gregory, what were a few reasons migrants moving westward chose California as their destination?

Good climate, Hollywood, better opportunities, guided migration chains

Gregory points out that migrants moving westward faced many issues, including:

• Poverty

• Increased taxes for residents

• Public health implications

• Disease such as malaria and smallpox

• All of the above

All the above

Alexander the Great's dream of a world under which all citizens of the world would live together in harmony is called a _________

Cosmopolis

Fill in the blanks. The _____ ______ system was built on the belief that white people were superior to black people in all important ways.

Jim Crow

Fill in the blank. According to Mary Beth Norton in Founding Mothers & Fathers, the worldview of early colonists came from a _______ worldview shaped by a rank-ordered society.

Filmerian

Who shared this about their lived experience?

• "I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment."

• Her grandmother began a business "midnight bakings" and put money away to buy her children out of slavery.

Harriet Jacobs

Fill in the blank. According to David Stannard in The Puritan Way of Death, it is estimated that ______ of children in the 17 and 18th centuries did not survive the first year of life.

10% - 30%

In 1911 the national society, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) set out to mark the "Old Trails Road" stretching from Maryland to California. Pioneer mother statues mark 12 spots across this trail. The one in Upland, CA is called…

Madonna of the Trail

Who is the American photographer credited with well-known photos of the pea pickers camps in California during the Dust Bowl migration, including the most famous one titled "Migrant Mother"?

Dorothea Lang