1. i>Clicker Questions
Chapter 11: Religion and Reform,
1800–1860
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2. 1. Why did Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas have the greatest impact on the middle class?
a. The middle class had already embraced moral perfection and moral free agency.
b. The middle class was the most likely to promote abolitionism.
c. The middle class was already involved in moral reform.
d. The middle class had already rejected organized religion.

3. 2. Which statement assesses the historical significance of the Shakers, Fourierists, and Oneidians?
a. They gathered extremely large followings.
b. They radically questioned sexual norms and class divisions.
c. They explicitly addressed questions of racial inequality.
d. They pushed American crafts to new artistic levels.

4. 3. Why did the Mormons move their communities several times?
a. They chose places to settle poorly.
b. They were persecuted by other groups.
c. Their farming practices exhausted the soil.
d. They splintered into different subgroups more than once.

5. 4. Between the 1820s and 1860s, on which group of people was urban popular culture based?
a. Upper-class professionals who attempted to extend elite culture to the white working class
b. Thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
c. Native American and Asian American interactions in cities
d. Thousands of British immigrants to the United States

6. 5. How did leading African Americans in the North hope to elevate blacks to an equal social status with whites after the 1790s?
a. By securing respectability
b. By securing the right to vote
c. By fomenting southern slave rebellions
d. By joining the British antislavery movement

7. 6. What was the American Anti-Slavery Society's most successful tactic in affecting public opinion?
a. Redoubling the efforts of the abolitionist lecture circuit
b. Pressuring Congress through petitions
c. Mailing abolitionist pamphlets throughout the country
d. Calling for violent slave revolts

8. 7. How did the federal government respond to abolition between 1836 and 1844?
a. By blocking debate of antislavery petitions in Congress
b. By supporting the abolitionists' mail campaign
c. By passing antislavery legislation
d. By outlawing slavery in the District of Columbia

9. 8. What was the point of the ideology of the "separate sphere" promoted in the mid-nineteenth century by men like the evangelical minister Philemon Fowler?
a. Women and men in reform movements should hold separate meetings.
b. Women should focus on domestic life, not public life.
c. Whites and blacks belonged in separate spheres of society.
d. Women should be housed separately from men in prisons and institutions for the mentally ill.

10. 9. What did women reformers refer to when they spoke about "domestic slavery" in the 1840s?
a. Slavery in the United States vis-à-vis slavery in South America
b. Women's loss of legal rights in the institution of marriage
c. The service of maids and female servants in upper-class households
d. The experience of house slaves in the South

11. 10. Women at the Seneca Falls Convention based their Declaration of Sentiments on
a. the Declaration of Independence.
b. transcendentalism.
c. abolitionism.
d. the Constitution.

12. Answer Key 1. The answer is a. 2. The answer is b. 3. The answer is b.
6. The answer is c.
7. The answer is a.
8. The answer is b.
9. The answer is b.
10. The answer is a.