final history chapter 12 – Flashcards
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Wrote Walden:
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Henry David Thoreau
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Christian activists assumed that the United States had a mandate from ______ to provide a representative government.
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God
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The Second Great Awakening was a ___ movement.
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reiligious
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One of the biggest components of the Second Great Awakening was located in the _____ portion of the United States.
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southern
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An early leader in the fight for women's suffrage was
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Susan B. Anthony
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An early leading abolitionist was
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William Lloyd Garrison.
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__________ is the term used for ending the legal form of slavery
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Abolition
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________ contended that the Second Great Awakening was also intended to reform human society.
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Lyman Beecher
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The goal of the American Colonization Society was
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to send slaves back to Africa.
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The___________ movement intended to reduce or eradicate the consumption of alcohol in the United States.
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temperance
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Perhaps the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad was
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Sojourner Truth.
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An example of a utopian community was
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the Shakers.
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Wrote the influential transcendentalist work Nature:
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Ralph Wald Emerson
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During the Romantic era, ________ were created to help people recover from social illnesses.
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asylums
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The large wave of religious revivals around the turn the of the 19th century is known as
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the Second Great Awakening
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The Declaration of Sentiments was written at
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the Seneca Falls Convention
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Which of the following would not be considered a transcendentalist?
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Edgar Allen Poe
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After publishing his autobiography, he left for England for two years on a speaking tour. When he returned, he had enough money to purchase his freedom
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Fredrick Douglass
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The leading abolitionist newspaper of the time was
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The Liberator
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During the Romanticism, this author found his work banned in Boston because of the frankness of his writing
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Walt Whitman
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_____________ is best known as a reformer of insane asylums during the Romantic period.
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Dorothea Dix
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Thoreau and Emerson portrayed the transcendentalist movement as an expression of
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moral idealism.
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What country did the American Colonization Society create for freed slaves?
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Liberia
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When considering the faith of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the definition of _______ suits their personal beliefs.
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Deism
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After the Revolution, most Americans viewed religious salvation as a
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a part of being politically engaged
