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according to alexis de tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing americans?
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voluntary associations
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whcih statement about Shakers is FALSE?
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they practiced 'complex marrige' and publicity recorded sexual relations
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which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by joseph smith is FALSE?
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the mormons were founded in the 1840's as an offshoot of methodism
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which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located
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new harmony: indiana
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Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most americans
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saw property ownership as a key to economic independance, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property
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by 1840, the temperance movement in the united states had
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encouraged a substantial decrease in the cinsumption of alcohol
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the proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the
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tention between liberation and control in the era's reform movements
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the american tract society was focused on
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religion
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horace mann believed that public schools would do all of the following except
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help eliminate racial discrimination
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the colonization of freed US slaves to africa
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prompted the adament opposition of most free african americans
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like indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested o the premise that american
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was fundamentally a white society
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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolistionst newspaper called
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the liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison argued in thoughts on african colonization that
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blacks were not 'strangers' in america to be shipped abroad, but should be recongnized as a permanent part of american society
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how did the abolitionist link themselves to the nations revolutionary heritage
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they seized on the preamble to the declaration of independance as an attack against slavery
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what book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson
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uncle tom's cabin
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abolitionist challenged stereotypes about african americans by
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countering the pseudoscientifuc claim that they formed a seperate species
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freedom's journal
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was the first black run newspaper in the united states
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what did the 4th of july represented to frederick douglass
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the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery
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the gag rule
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prevented congress from hearing antislavery petitions
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the death of elijah lovejoy in 1837
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convinced many northerners that slaery was incompatible with white americans' liberties
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frederick douglass wrote, 'when the true history of the anti- slavery cause shall be written, ___ will occupy a large space in its pages"
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women
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which of the following was NOT a reform movement in which women played a prominant role during the early to mid nineteenth century
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the anti mexican war movement
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the seneca falls convention's declaration of sentiments
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condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women
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what was a 'bloomer' in the 1850's
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a feminist style of dress
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the organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over
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a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work
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