Score for this quiz: 48 out of 50
Submitted Feb 17 at 2:35pm
This attempt took 37 minutes.
Question 1
2 / 2 pts
What popular ideology was closely connected with civil disobedience, pacifism, and
non-resistance?
Rationalism
Transcendentalism
Mercantilism
Question 2
2 / 2 pts
Abolitionists often sought a political solution to the problem of slavery as evidenced by?
The Liberty Party and the Free Soil Party
John Brown’s raid
The American Freedom and Equality Party
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
What well-known center of scientific learning was founded after Charles Wilkes’ United
States Exploring Expedition authorized by Andrew Jackson?
the Lyceum of Natural History
the Smithsonian Institution
the Academy of Natural Sciences
the Franklin Institute
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
Who was known for laying groundwork for reform movements for the blind?
Samuel Gridley Howe
Thomas Ellery Channing
Dorothea Dix
Brigham Young
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
What was the “moral reform” movement?
a Protestant effort to halt prostitution, pornography, and seduction
a campaign against drunkenness
an inter-denominational attempt to increase Sunday school attendance
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
The pseudo-science that claimed the ability to read a person’s character by feeling the
bumps in his skull was called what?
Mesmerism
Hydropathy
Phrenology
Alternative Medicine
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
The reform movement fighting against drunkenness was called what?
abolition
temperance
mesmerism
spiritualism
Question 8
2 / 2 pts
What was true about the cult of domesticity?
The man’s sphere was in public and the woman’s sphere was at home.
Women were viewed as pure and pious, without sexual desire or political opinion.
Women were expected to submit to their husbands.
All of the above.
Question 9
2 / 2 pts
What was the Underground Railroad?
A secret network of routes and stopping places that fugitive slaves used to escape to
free territories.
A railway tunnel built under the Allegheny Mountains highlighting the power of internal
improvements to speed transportation.
The title of an abolitionist newspaper which was sent to Southern plantation owners
and ministers in an attempt to persuade them of slavery’s immorality.
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Who below did NOT organize a violent slave rebellion in the South?
Denmark Vesey
Elijah Spitz
Charles Deslondes
Nat Turner
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
Who spent her life advocating for reform of treatment options for the mentally ill?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Martineau
Lucretia Mott
Dorothea Dix
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Who established the American Peace Society and discussed plans for world
cooperation which brought about many international peace conferences at the Hague?
Elijah Lovejoy
Mark Twain
William Ladd
William Lloyd Garrison
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
Most of the founders of the American Temperance Society came from which of the
groups of people below?
free blacks
doctors
evangelical ministers
Southern plantation owners
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
Garrison and his followers rejected war and all preparations for war. This led them to do
what?
Re-write the Bible to edit out any violence.
Refuse allegiance to all human governments.
Sabotage West Point.
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
What temperance movement was run by former alcoholics and was similar to
Alcoholics Anonymous today?
The American Temperance Society
Ex-Drunkards of America
The Washingtonian Movement
The Temperance Repentance Movement
Question 16
2 / 2 pts
Where was the world’s first women’s rights convention held?
London
Seneca Falls
Boston
Nashville
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
What was a popular and established medical treatment for a variety of ailments in the
Jacksonian Era?
Vitamin C
Mercury
Bleeding
Antibiotics
B and C
Question 18
2 / 2 pts
Who was one of the first black women in America to speak publicly on political issues?
Angelina Grimke
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maria Miller Stewart
Lydia Child
Question 19
2 / 2 pts
What below was NOT true about William Lloyd Garrison?
He was formerly a slave-owner.
He helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society.
He edited a well known abolitionist newspaper The Liberator.
He believed slavery could best be challenged by peaceful moral persuasion.
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
Two kinds of prisons arose out of reform movements in the Jacksonian Era. They were
called:
The Auburn System and the Pennsylvania System
The Rehabilitation System and the Repentance System
The American System and the Hope System
Question 21
8 / 10 pts
Who was James Henley Thornwell? Describe his attempt to provide a Christian
response to slavery and sectional tensions.
Your Answer:
James Henley Thornwell was one of the greatest American theologians. He was a
pastor of Presbyterian churches in South Carolina. This response to slavery was that it
was a curse and a sign of the fall of mankind, like it is stated in the Bible in Genesis. He
said that slavery was inconsistent with the gospel. In his writings he says that African
Americans are like our brothers and sisters, not our slaves. He goes on to explain that
slave-owners shouldn't give them so little, barely enough to survive on, but to give them
more like to feed, clothe, educate, and care for them as family.
Good! But he also ended up advocating against slavery and was critical of "wage
slavery" in the North.
