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Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

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desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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None of these answers is correct.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature

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was that American artists had little to offer Europe.

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The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

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natural beauty

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All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school

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THomas Cole, Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt, Asher Durand, NOTTTTT James Whistler

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Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River school?

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a belief that democracy was the best source of wisdom and spiritual fulfillment

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All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

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Sydney Smith.

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Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of

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America's Westward expansion

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Walt Whitman

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celebrated the liberation of the individual

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Herman Melville's most important literary work was

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Moby Dick

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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was

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The Raven

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The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works of

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Mark Twain

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Transcendentalists

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regarded reason to be the most important human faculty

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The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

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asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment

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The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau

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argued that Americans had the moral right to disobey laws of the U.S.

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The transcendentalist movement

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anticipated the environmental protection movement of the 20th century

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The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to

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permit all individuals to realize their full potential as individuals

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Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?

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Walt Whitman

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One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was

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Oneida

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In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

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carefully monitored sexual behavior to protect women

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Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

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complete celibacy

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Shaker societies

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saw women excercise more power than men

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Mormonism

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believed in human perfectibility

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Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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It advocated sexual equality

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Nineteenth-century Protestant revivalists such as the New Light revivalists

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formed a crusade against personal immorality

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In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

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linked alcohol to crime and poverty

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In the nineteenth century, cholera epidemics in the United States

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typically killed more than half of those that contracted the disease

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According to the nineteenth-century "science" of phrenology, what could be discerned from the shape of an individual's skull?

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character and intelligence

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During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

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absence of basic knowledge about disease

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In the 1840s in the United States, an initial understanding of germ theory was developed by

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

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gave the nation the highest literacy rate in the world

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The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

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democracy

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The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

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Dorothea Dix

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Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

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Included the practice of solitary confinement

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The nineteenth-century practice of placing American Indians on reservations was partially designed to

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isolate and protect the Indians from white society, help "regenerate" them, and allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.

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isolate and protect the Indians from white society, help "regenerate" them, and allow them to develop to a point where they could assimilate into white society.

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abolition

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The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights

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Issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence

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Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

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Quakers

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Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society

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was founded by Virginians who opposed slavery

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The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to

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Liberia

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William Lloyd Garrison believed the abolitionist movement should

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stress the damage that slavery did to blacks rather than whites

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Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be

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strongly opposed to southern slavery

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The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was

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David Walker

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Frederick Douglass

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spent years lecturing in ENgland against slavery

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In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

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a small percentage of the united states

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One leading abolitionist who was murdered for his activism was

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Elijah Lovejoy

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In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

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-by radicals and moderates within their ranks. -over whether or not to use violence. -by calls for northern and southern separation. -over the question of female equality.

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In the 1840s, William Lloyd Garrison spoke against

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defensive wars

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The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

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led to the passage of "personal liberty" laws

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Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party

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promoted "free soil"

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The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

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spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience

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The mid-nineteenth-century "age of reform" was characterized by a simultaneous attraction to ideas of both personal liberty and social order.

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TRUE

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Above all, nineteenth-century reform movements in the United States promoted racial equality.

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FALSE

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Hudson River school artists felt America had more promise than Europe.

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TRUE

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Many of the Hudson River school artists expressed a nostalgic view of nature.

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TRUE

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James Fenimore Cooper thought Americans should become more like Europeans.

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FALSE

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Herman Melville was less exuberant in his celebration of America than was Walt Whitman.

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true

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Edgar Allan Poe's writings focused on the bleak nature of the human spirit and emotion.

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true

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Mark Twain was the leading writer in the southern romantic tradition.

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false

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American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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true

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was both a minister and a transcendentalist philosopher.

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true

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Henry David Thoreau favored the solitary life, but not civil disobedience.

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false

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Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.

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true

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The Oneida Community sought to redefine gender roles and engage in "free love".

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false

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Both the Oneida Community and the Shakers were committed to celibacy.

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false

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Like other mid-nineteenth-century experiments in social organization, Mormons believed in human perfectibility.

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true

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The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.

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true

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Evangelical Protestantism was at odds with the reform spirit of the pre-Civil War period.

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false

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Those alarmed by immigration in the mid-nineteenth century were often drawn to the temperance movement.

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true

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Nearly a quarter of the population of New Orleans died in 1833 as a result of a cholera outbreak.

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true

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Sylvester Graham encouraged people to eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat.

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true

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The study of the human brain through phrenology was the origin of modern psychology.

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false

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Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed medical innovations and experimentation.

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true

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By the 1850s, the principle of tax-supported elementary schools had been established in every state.

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true

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By 1860, public schools in the United States had failed to produce significant improvement in education.

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false

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By the beginning of the Civil War, the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.

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true

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Horace Mann believed public education should promote both democracy and social order.

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true

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Reformers of the pre-Civil War period thought it was possible to rehabilitate criminals through solitary confinement.

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true

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Reformers believed the concept of Indian reservations was beneficial to both whites and Indians.

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true

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By the 1840s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott sought to apply the equality of treatment they received in the abolition movement to all aspects of female life.

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false

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The Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" included a demand that women have the right to vote.

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true

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The American Colonization Society called for the gradual freeing of slaves and for monetary compensation to their former owners.

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true

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Many blacks rejected the American Colonization Society's offer to "return" them to Africa.

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true

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In the North, abolitionists were a small, dissenting minority of the total population.

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true

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William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism.

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false

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William Lloyd Garrison was a harsh critic of the United States government.

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true

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The abolitionist cause suffered a set-back as a result of the 1842 Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania.

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false

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The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.

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true

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Americans in the Free-Soil movement sought to open up sections of the West to blacks.

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false

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The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

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false

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