Democratization of Culture
T/F: America was one of the most literate nations in the world as of 1820.
True
By the mid-1820s and 1830s, evivals, together known as the ________ Great Awakening , reached the emerging middle class of the North and continued in areas throughout the country into the 1850s.
A) First
B) Second
B) Second
The sports and shows attended by northern plain folk, like the churches they attended, were often grounded in an ___________ view of the world and in traditional forms of patriarchy and masculinity.
A) Sentimental
B) Antisentimental
B) Antisentimental
The southern states experienced cultural transformations of a more _________ nature—transformations grounded in persistent localism, in the father-centered family, and in the pervasive influence of a traditionalist evangelical Christianity.
A) Liberal
B) Conservative
B) Conservative
If a state required "freehold" status in order to vote, what did that mean?
A) You had to be male and white
B) You had to be a citizen
C) You had to be educated through 8th grade
D) You had to own property
D) You had to own property
_________ were the most widely distributed form of print in the new republic.
A) Magazines
B) Cheap novels
C) Newspapers
C) Newspapers
“The most valuable class in any community,” declared the poet-journalist Walt Whitman in 1858, “is the _________ class.”
A) Lower
B) Middle
C) Upper
B) Middle
Urban working class people also engaged in such “__________ sports ” as ratting and dog fighting, even though many states had laws forbidding such activities. Such contests grew increasingly popular during the 1850s and often were staged by saloonkeepers doubling as sports impresarios.
Blood
Early southern Baptists and Methodists demanded a crisis conversion followed by a life of piety and a rejection of what they called “the world.” To no small degree, the world was the economic, cultural, and political world controlled by the __________.
A) Politicians
B) Planters
C) Slaves
D) Northern elite
B) Planters
Between 1790 and 1820, citizenship grounded in _________ and proprietorship gave way to a democratic insistence on equal rights for all white men.
A) Motherhood
B) Fatherhood
B) Fatherhood
__________ were the principal readers of novels, a new form of reading matter that Thomas Jefferson and other authorities denounced as frivolous and aberrant.
Women
Liberty for them (New England middle class) meant self-ownership and the freedom of action and ambition. Equality meant equality of _____________.
A) Opportunity
B) Race
C) Education
D) Voting
A) Opportunity
Boxing’s popularity rose during the 1840s and 1850s, a time of increasing __________ and violence in poor city neighborhoods.
A) Immigration
B) Race Riots
C) Third party political activism
A) Immigration
Which denomination seemed to carry the flag for abolition in the late 18th century only to say in 1816 “little can be done to abolish the practice so contrary to moral justice.”
A) Baptists
B) Methodists
C) Episcopalians
B) Methodists
Property restrictions became particularly troublesome after the ___________, when a large proportion of veterans could not vote. In Shenandoah County, Virginia, for instance, 700 of 1,000 men at a militia muster could not vote.
War of 1812
Though only about ____% of households subscribed to a newspaper, the democratic public knew what was in them, for the papers were passed from hand to hand, read aloud in groups, and made available at taverns and public houses.
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
B) 10
Reduced to their own sources of support, the established churches—Congregationalism in New England, the Church of England (renamed _____________) in the South and much of the mid-Atlantic—went into decline.
A) Episcopalian
B) Presbyterian
C) Methodist
A) Episcopalian
Playhouses that catered to working-class audiences continued to feature Shakespearean tragedies but they soon shared the stage with works written in the American vernacular. The stage “______” rustic but shrewd, appeared at this time, and so did Mose the Bowery B’hoy, a New York volunteer fireman who performed feats of derring-do. Both frequently appeared in opposition to well-dressed characters with English accents.
A) Patriot
B) Yankee
C) Johnny Reb
D) Uncle Sam
B) Yankee
From Virginia on north, the rising population of free blacks gravitated to ___________.
A) Cities and towns
B) Utopian communes
C) Farming communities
D) Free countries of Europe
A) Cities and towns
When Nathaniel Macon, a respected old revolutionary from North Carolina, saw that his state would abolish property qualifications in 1802, he suggested that the suffrage be limited to _________ men. It was an attempt to maintain the old distinction between citizen-householders and disfranchised dependents.
Married
Which amendment in the Bill of Rights helped cement America a nation of publishers and readers?
1st Amendment (Freedom of Press)
Baptists and Methodists were by far the most successful at preaching to the new democratic audience. The United States had only 50 Methodist churches in 1783; by 1820 it had __________.
A) 1,500
B) 2,700
C) 4,250
B) 2,700
The most popular form of theater in the antebellum era was the blackface minstrel show best encapsulated by Thomas Rice's "_________" character.
Jim Crow
In 1845, when ____________ passed a law declaring that all children had the right to attend neighborhood schools, the School Committee blithely ruled that the law did not apply to blacks.
A) Virginia
B) New York
C) Massachusetts
C) Massachusetts
By 1840, only __________ retained a propertied electorate, primarily because Yankee farmers in that state wanted to retain power in a society made up increasingly of urban, immigrant wage earners.
A) Vermont
B) New Hampshire
C) Rhode Island
C) Rhode Island