US History Chapter 12 Practice Quiz – Flashcards
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Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?
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Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.
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Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, '30s, and '40s?
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They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
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Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
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Tariff reform
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Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and '40s?
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Political party conventions
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The 1836 "gag rule":
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Prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
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Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
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Settlement houses in cities
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The region of the United States that came to be known as the ?0Ă’burned-over district?1Ă“ as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was:
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Upstate New York and northern Ohio.
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization
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Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:
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More humane treatment of the insane.
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The American Colonization Society called for:
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A gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
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The Liberty Bell took on its name—previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell—after:
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Abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery.
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Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:
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wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.
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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by:
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William Lloyd Garrison.
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Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?
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Virtually no traces of racial prejudice found their way into the movement. (Not an option in pq)
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Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?
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Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
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At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:
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The Declaration of Independence.
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Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
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A conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by ?0Ă’moral suasion,?1Ă“ then violent measures would become necessary
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The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call ?0Òutopian?1Ó communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about:
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One hundred.
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The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
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Abolitionism.
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At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant:
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Any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
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The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth-century United States included all of the following except societies to:
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Shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
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Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
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100,000
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Perfectionism was (is) the view that:
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social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
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Which was not a chief endeavor of black abolitionists?
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They called for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
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First U.S. black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, established
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1827
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American Colonization Society founded
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1816
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Owenite community established at New Harmony, Indiana
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1825
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First Shaker community established in upstate New York
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1787
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American Temperance Society founded
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1826
