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The meeting held July 19 and 20, 1848, in upper New York State to advocate rights for women became known as the:

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Seneca Falls Convention

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The resolution that was considered the most radical of those passed by women reformers in upper New York state in July 1848 was the demand for women to have:

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the right to vote

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One of the primary organizers of the reformation conference in upper New York state in July 1848 was:

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Supporters of the reformation convention were often people involved in one or more of the following reforms:

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Abolition, education, and temperance

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The name given to those immigrants to the United States who were fleeing the Potato Famine of 1845-1850 was:

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"Famine Irish"

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The largest number of immigrants between 1845 and 1854 came from:

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Ireland and Germany

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The percentage of immigrants in the United States population rose from 1.6 percent in the 1820s to:

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11.2 percent in 1860

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The Irish immigrants were often opposed and discriminated against for all of the following reasons EXCEPT they:

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were lazy and unwilling to work

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Which city in the United States had the most unwelcoming response to Irish immigrants

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Boston

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German immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s tended to be:

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farmers who formed rural communities in the Midwest

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The Chinese established an ethnic neighborhood in San Francisco after being attracted to California by the:

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Gold Rush

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Ethnic neighborhoods such as "Little Germanies" or Chinatowns developed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that the:

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immigrants thought the openness and acceptance of Americans unbelievable

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The blackface minstrel shows before the civil war:

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expressed white racism and nostalgia for the pre-industrial life

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All of the following were part of the emerging working class culture in the cities EXCEPT:

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community groups composed of people of all social classes

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The entertainment offered by the new working class culture included all of the following EXCEPT:

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comedies at theaters featuring the Irish as monkeys

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The city that, by 1860, had the largest population and largest port was:

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New York City

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The results of the market revolution in the cities included:

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great increase in the gap between rich and poor

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In the cities, class lines became much clearer as a result of all of the following EXCEPT the:

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attitudes and work habits of the immigrant poor

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As the classes became more isolated from each other, the middle class tended to:

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see poverty and epidemics as God's punishment of the poor

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Publications such as the "penny papers" and stories of Edgar Allen Poe suggest Americans:

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were fascinated by the violence around them

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Free African Americans in northern cities:

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were in direct competition with Irish immigrants

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Free African Americans in northern cities faced all of the following EXCEPT:

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discrimination in their churches

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The growing activity of urban workers' associations in cities was the result in part of:

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the feeling among artisans of declining status

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The Workingmen's Party:

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wanted to save the independent craftsmen and his shop

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Local labor unions formed the National Trade Union in 1834 and:

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criticized the unequal distribution of wealth and the workers' degradation

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The General Trade Union:

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included only the relatively few white men in skilled trades

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The political machine:

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offered the immigrants some help and a sense of community

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The social reform movement that swept the country from the 1820s to the 1850s had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT it:

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contended that people were sinful and depraved in nature

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On issues such as temperance, reformers, inspired by the evangelical Christianity of Charles G. Finney, tended to be:

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moralistic and dogmatic

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One of the groups most involved in supporting the social reform movement was:

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middle-class women

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The doctrine behind the social reform movement was:

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perfectionism

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Horace Mann advocated all of the following EXCEPT:

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putting abler children into private schools

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One of the chief advocates of teacher training for women was:

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Catherine Beecher

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The early advocates of training women to be teachers were motivated by all of the following EXCEPT:

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the knowledge that the South would not be threatened by female reformers as teachers

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The Washington Temperance Societies were:

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established by skilled workers

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The anti-prostitution reformers:

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soon recognized prostitution was mainly an economic problem

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The new reform prisons such as "Sing Sing" in New York were intended to:

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rehabilitate the prisoners rather than just punish them

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The map of reform movements in upper New York state shows that the area most changed by the Erie Canal became such a hot-bed of religious revivals it became known as the:

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Burned-Over District

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William Miller's followers who believed the Day of Judgement would come October 22, 1843 became the core of the:

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Seventh-Day Adventists

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"Mother" Ann Lee was the founder of a Utopian group called the:

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Shakers

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John Humphrey Noyes established in upper New York state a Utopian society notorious for sexual freedom, called the:

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Oneida community

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Apocalyptic religions are:

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responses to rapid change and hard times, as demonstrated by the Millerites

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All of the following were Utopian communities in the United States EXCEPT:

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Auburn

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The founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was:

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Joseph Smith

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The Mormons became successful for all of the following reasons EXCEPT that they:

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isolated themselves in Utah but took advantage of the Gold Rush

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The organization founded in 1817 that called for the gradual emancipation of slaves and their resettlement in Africa was the:

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American Colonization Society

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The American Colonization Society:

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was founded partly by slaveholders from the Upper South

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In the 1820s, all of the following were true of the position of free African Americans on slavery EXCEPT they:

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advocated a greater emphasis on a return to Africa

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The author of the pamphlet, Appeal to the Colored Citizen of the World, which called for slave rebellion was:

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David Walker

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The publisher of the abolitionist paper, The Liberator, was:

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William Lloyd Garrison

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The abolitionists included all of the following EXCEPT:

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Lyman Beecher

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The author of the 1839 treatise, American Slavery As It Is, was the evangelical minister:

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Theodore Weld

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The abolitionists:

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gained the support of the majority of people in the North

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The man called "the Most Mobbed Man in the United States" was:

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Theodore Weld

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The antislavery editor of Alton, Illinois who was killed by a mob in 1837 was:

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Elijah P. Lovejoy

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The routes by which slaves were ushered out of the South to freedom were known as the:

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Underground Railroad

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The Spanish ship that had been taken over by its human cargo who were subsequently freed in a court case against the United States government by John Quincy Adams, was the:

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Amistad

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The prohibiton established on the discussion of anti-slavery petitions in Congress from 1836 to 1844 was known as the:

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"gag rule"

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William Lloyd Garrison broke with Frederick Douglas and the abolitionists in 1840 because:

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Douglas and others favored political action

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The author of the 1838 publication, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, was the Southern anti-slavery advocate:

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Sarah Grimke

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The story of Angelina and Sarah Grimke shows that in order for them to speak out as equals against slavery it was most necessary that they:

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overcome the cultural subordination of women

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The correct chronological order of the following events is:

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New Harmony established, Workingmen's Party started, Mormon Church founded, and Liberator first published.

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