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Abby Kelley |
Demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements |
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According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans? |
Voluntary associations |
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About _______ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. |
100 |
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The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War |
Set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis |
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Who founded the Shakers? |
Ann Lee |
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At the end of their trek in the mid-1840’s, Mormons led by Brigham Young founded |
Salt Lake City, Utah |
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The Oneida community |
Controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce |
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Brook Farm |
Was founded by New England transcendentalists |
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Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located? |
New Harmony: Indiana |
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Although it only lasted a few years, the New Harmony community |
Influences education reformers and women’s rights advocates |
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Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans |
Saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property |
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Burned-over districts were |
In Kansas and Nebraska, where fighting broke out over issues of slavery |
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How did reformers reconcile their desire to crests moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom? |
They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically |
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By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had |
Encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol |
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Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement |
Catholics |
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What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums? |
That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society |
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The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the |
Tension between liberation and control in the era’s reform movements |
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Common schools |
Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War |
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The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa |
Prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans |
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Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America |
Was fundamentally a white society |
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How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts? |
The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately |
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Who was the North Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention |
David Walker |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery |
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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called |
The Liberator |
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William Lloyd Garrison argued in "Thoughts on African Colonization" that |
Blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society |
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Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery? |
Frederick Douglas |
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How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation’s Revolutionary heritage? |
They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery |
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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement |
Included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper |
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What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson? |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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According to the mid-nineteenth century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon, |
There was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees |
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The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker’s book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from |
Heaven |
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How did abolitionists challenge stereotypes about African-Americans? |
Countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species |
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What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglas? |
The hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery |
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The gag rule |
Prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions |
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The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 |
Convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans’ liberties |
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Frederick Douglas wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ________ will occupy a large space in it’s pages." |
Women |
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Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the |
Construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane |
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke |
Critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women |
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The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women |
Were the Grimke sisters |
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The Seneca Falls’ Conventions’ Declaration of Sentiments |
Condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women |
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What was a "bloomer" in the 1850’s? |
A feminist style of dress |
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The ________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement |
Liberty Party |
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The organized abolitionist movement split in two wings in 1840, largely over |
A dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work |
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