The notion of separate spheres and the Cult of Domesticity allowed the ___ to distinguish themselves as separate from and superior to the working class.
Middle Class
The Second Great Awakening...
Saw growth of the Baptist and Methodist churches in the United States, were characterized by large gatherings at religious revivals, and showed regional differences across the United States.
The concept of Manifest Destiny embraced the idea(s) that...
The United States would expand "from sea to shining sea."; residents of areas under expansion would be Americanized, and spreading the boundaries of the United States was equivalent to spreading freedom
Mexico lost more than half its territory to the United States as a result of...
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
__ viewed self-reliance as the key to the human experience.
Transcendentalists
Millenial movements such as Shakers and Millerites believed that the second coming of Jesus was approaching. True or False?
True
Stimulated by new religious fervor and upset by social conditions, a number of new communities and reform movements appeared quickly after 1840. True or False?
True
Burned-over districts were...
In New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred
German immigrants in the 1850s...
Tended to come as groups and families
The major impetus for the huge Irish immigration to the United States after 1845 was...
A deadly potato famine
What effect did Mexico's winning its independence from Spain have on American settlement in the Southwest?
American settlement and expansion into the former Spanish territories increased after Mexico gained independence
The Mexican War erupted when...
Mexican and American troops clashed north of the Rio Grande
Among the vocal opponents of the Mexican War was...
Abraham Lincoln
Which statement offers the most accurate overview of the Old South?
E)
In the South, the paternalist ethos or paternalism...
Reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him
As president, James Polk's top priority was to...
Secure geographic expansion of the United States, especially through the acquisition of Texas, California, and New Mexico
The Seneca Falls Convention...
Demand equal rights for women
Which of the following was NOT a condition of slavery life in the South?
C)
The slave population in the United States by 1860 was approximately...
4 million
The major reason the South did not industrialize was that...
Plantation slavery was quite profitable
"Fifty-four or fight!" refers to...
American desires to expand to take "all of Oregon," despite the British claims to the territory
Woman who was instrumental in the effort to encourage states to establish mental asylums.
Dorothea Dix
Leader of the Church of Later-Day Saints who led his people to Utah to escape persecution.
Brigham Young
Woman who led the Shakers as they worked to perfect communities in anticipation of Christ's return
"Mother" Ann Lee
Head of the Massachusetts board of education who advocated for universal public education
Horace Mann
Pennsylvania doctor who argued large amounts of alcohol was injurious to an individual's health
Benjamin Rush
Abolitionist who published the "The Liberator."
William Lloyd Garrison
Transcendentalist who exhibited his beliefs when he lived in a cabin at Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
Essayist and lecturer who became the most prominent transcendentalist
