APUSH - AMSCO Ch 11

Which of the following is not true about the Antebellum Period?

• Slavery was abolished with the 13^th Amendment.

• It was the period before the Civil War.

• Focuses were - establishing free (tax-supported) public schools, improving the treatment of the mentally ill, and controlling or abolishing the sale of alcohol.

• People fought for equal rights for women and abolishing slavery.

A religious revival during the early 1800s which began among educated people. Successful preachers were audience-centered and easily understood by the uneducated; they spoke about the opportunity for salvation to all.

• The Second Great Awakening

• The First Great Awakening

• The Temperance Movement

• The Public Education Reform Movement

Which of the following is not true about the Temperance movement?

• Dorthea Dix led the crusade to fix the conditions in mental health hospitals by publicizing the awful treatment she had witnessed.

• The high rate of alcohol consumption prompted reformers to target alcohol as the cause of social ills.

• German and Irish immigrants were largely opposed to the Temperance campaign but they lacked the political power to prevent governments from passing reforms.

• Factory owners and politicians joined when it became clear that Temperance measures could reduce crime and poverty and increase workers’ output on the job.

Which of the following is not true about the movement for Public Asylums?

• People fought for equal rights for women and abolishing slavery.

• Dorthea Dix led the crusade to fix the conditions in mental health hospitals by publicizing the awful treatment she had witnessed.

• Schools for the blind and the deaf were established in many states.

• Prison reform reflected a major doctrine of the asylum movement: structure and discipline would bring about moral reform.

Which of the following is not true about the reform of Public Education?

• The reform only focused on educating the wealthy urbanites.

• The reform was spurred by fears for the future of the republic posed by growing numbers of the uneducated poor.

• Horace Mann was the leading advocate of the common (public) school movement and worked for compulsory attendance for all children, a longer school year, and increased teacher preparation.

• Reformers wanted children to not only learn basic literacy, but also moral principles.

Which of the following is not true about the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?

• Men understood their errors and Congress immediately passed the 19^th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

• It was the first women’s rights convention in American history.

• The “Declaration of Sentiments” declared that “all mean and women are created equal” and listed women’s grievances against laws and customs that discriminated against them.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the campaign for equal voting, legal, and property rights for women after the convention.

Which of the following is not true about the Antislavery Movement?

• No women were allowed because the movement was seen as a violent one, unfit for women.

• The idea of transporting freed slaves to an African colony was first tried in 1817 with the founding of the American Colonization Society, and founded an African-American settlement in Monrovia, Liberia in 1822.

• The American Antislavery Society was founded in 1833, demanding for an immediate abolition of slavery without compensation to the slaveowners, and condemned and burned the Constitution as a proslavery document.

• Fredrick Douglass advocated both political and direct action to end slavery and racial prejudice.

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?

• churches turned away from religion and focused on politics

• people were inspired to join reform movements

• religious leaders petitioned the government for funding

• churches promoted states' rights

The Democratic Party (political party) was created after --

• the election of Andrew Jackson

• slavery ended

• Jackson was impeached

• Thomas Jefferson ran for president

How did Jackson react to the Worcester v. Georgia Supreme Court case?

• He agreed with the ruling and apologized to Cherokee Nation.

• He allowed Cherokee Nation to remain on their lands.

• He got into a fist fight with Chief Justice John Marshall

• He ignored it and allowed the forced removal of Cherokee Nation.