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America's early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children.

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True

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Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of:

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women and children.

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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work begun on National Road; steamboat introduced on Mississippi River; work begun on Erie Canal; work begun on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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Which was not an aspect of women's changing role in the context of the expansive and dynamic growth of the market economy in nineteenth-century America?

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In the new, competitive, capitalist marketplace, women were to grow increasingly into captains of industry, becoming leaders of some of the nation's most important industries.

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The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy.

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True

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Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans.

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False

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During the first half of the 1800s, the U.S. economy experienced explosive growth in output and trade, and a rise in the standard of living for millions of Americans. This dynamic and expansive growth was, in part, a consequence of the rise of factories, a transportation revolution via canal and rail, a communications revolution spurred by invention of the telegraph, increasing agricultural yields and the mechanization of farm equipment, a rising prosperity for financial institutions, and larger cities. Historians call this new economy:

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the market revolution or market economy.

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Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society, and trapped in boring, dead-end jobs by their obsessive desire to earn money.

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True

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Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Telephones

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With the Second Great Awakening, American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk.

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False

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By the 1840s, most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.

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False

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"Slave coffles . . . became a common sight." Define "coffles."

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groups chained to one another

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Which of the following destroyed Henry David Thoreau's commune with nature?

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a train

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Which of the following was not a feature of westward expansion during the early to mid-1800s?

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Cities had no significant presence in the expanding West.

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Of the following projects, New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to:

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the Erie Canal.

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The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive, rational, and domineering, while women are naturally nurturing, selfless, and ruled by emotions.

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True

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For the expanding middle class, it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.

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True

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What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

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cotton gin

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The Second Great Awakening was:

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a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

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Millions of Americans' lives were improved by the nineteenth-century market revolution.

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True

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With the market revolution, the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.

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True

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Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.

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True

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What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?

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stimulated its growth

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During the 1820s and 1830s, an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions, economic insecurity, and growing inequalities of wealth.

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True

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The "American system of manufactures":

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was the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built, standardized products.

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In the nineteenth century, barred from schools and other facilities, free black Americans constructed their own institutional life, centered on churches, educational, and mutual aid societies.

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True

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden. True

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False

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There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century, such that from an average of seven children per family, by 1900 women on average had four children.

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True

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As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution, skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising.

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False

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Which was not an element of the Second Great Awakening?

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It emphasized predestination and the importance of each soul as being in the hands of an angry God.

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Industrialization, a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy, was most notable in the northeastern United States.

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True

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In Commonwealth v. Hunt, Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.

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False

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"Manifest destiny" was:

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the belief that the United States had a God-given mission to expand westward.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

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a transcendentalist

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In Thoreau's view, the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment.

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True

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Democracy in America was written by:

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Alexis de Tocqueville.

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The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected:

answer

the Great Lakes with New York City.

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The market revolution in the nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation's output and in trade, and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans.

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True

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Expanding networks of toll roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads were essential to the takeoff of the market revolution.

answer

True

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Which of the following was not a significant trend in American thought during the market revolution?

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a belief that one's spiritual salvation was purely a matter of chance

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Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney.

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False

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In the nineteenth century, a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she, not her husband, control the wages she earned.

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True

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The court case in which it was held that workers' unions are not illegal was

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Commonwealth v. Hunt.

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The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine.

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True

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The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.

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False

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From the 1830s to the 1850s, Americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born.

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False

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Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

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True

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America's first successful factory was established in 1790 by:

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Samuel Slater at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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In the period between 1820 and 1840, what two states combined saw the biggest spread (increase) in cotton cultivation?

answer

Louisiana and Mississippi

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For Ralph Waldo Emerson, freedom was:

answer

an open-ended process of self-realization by which individuals could remake themselves.

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The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.

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False

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Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to

answer

railroads.

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Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?

answer

America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe

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The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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True

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Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education, an end to imprisonment for debt, and a ten-hour workday.

answer

True

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Which of the following was not an innate characteristic of women, according to the "cult of domesticity"?

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analytical insight

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American industrialization first took off in:

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New England.

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Which of the following was not a key difference between traditional artisan production and the new factory system

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Artisans generally labored under closer supervision than did factory workers.

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The proper chronological order for presidents from 1817 forward is: Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, and Tyler.

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True

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Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called:

answer

the spoils system.

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Which of the following questions was not a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?

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Should women have the right to vote?

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The Panic of 1819 was caused by

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the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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announcement of American System program; Missouri controversy; "Tariff of Abominations"; veto of Second Bank recharter

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As a boy, Andrew Jackson had almost been killed when, during the War for Independence, a British officer struck him with his sword after the boy refused to polish the soldier's boots.

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True

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A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that:

answer

European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.

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What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?

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Old Hickory

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Which is not an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?

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Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.

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When Thomas Jefferson wrote, "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," he was referring to:

answer

the westward expansion of slavery.

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Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?

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The Democrats were united in opposition to paper money; the Whigs were united in support of it.

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Which was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?

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The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people, and to Dorr's execution.

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The leading theorist of nullification and states' rights by 1831 was the vice president of the United States.

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True

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The Panic of 1819 left many Americans uneasy about the market revolution.

answer

True

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The charter for the Bank of the United States was renewed in 1811.

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False

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During James Madison's presidential terms, two-party political competition completely disappeared.

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False

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As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena, they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality.

answer

False

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Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.

answer

False

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The "Era of Good Feelings" was so-called because:

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they were years of one-party government.

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In the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.

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False

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Often, political cartoons criticizing Andrew Jackson illustrated him as a king.

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True

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The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.

answer

True

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Which was not a way women became increasingly active in the public sphere during the early nineteenth century?

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They exercised the suffrage after 1807.

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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was renounced by President Jackson.

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False

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Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the Presidential Election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a "corrupt bargain" between some of the participants.

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False

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President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a solemn, elite dinner.

answer

False

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All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting, at least for a time.

answer

False

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America was a much less highly stratified society than Europe.

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True

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President Jackson's critics called him "King Andrew."

answer

True

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The portion of President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress that asserted that the United States would oppose further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas, that the United States would stay out of European wars, and that European powers were not to interfere with the newly independent Latin American states is called the:

answer

Monroe Doctrine.

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Which of the following was not a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?

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President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks.

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The second Bank of the United States held all the funds of the federal government.

answer

True

question

McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that:

answer

the Bank of the United States was constitutionally legal.

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Although denied the ballot, women found a voice in the public sphere during the 1820s and 1830s.

answer

True

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Which of the following did Andrew Jackson believe was associated with the outcome of the election of 1824?

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a corrupt bargain

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Culturally speaking, in the United States the right to vote is tantamount to being a citizen.

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True

question

Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?

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Ironically, as the number of eligible voters rose, voter turnout in elections declined.

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Andrew Jackson appealed to the changing voting pool because he represented those that came from generations of wealth and supported a strong federal government-controlled nation.

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False

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How much of the adult white male population in the United States could vote by 1840?

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approximately 90 percent

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Martin Van Buren's presidency, to a large degree, was occupied in dealing with issues arising from the Panic of 1837.

answer

True

question

The election of 1824 injured Henry Clay's political career.

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True

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Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?

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Democrats

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Which of the following was a factor in the split between Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun?

answer

the Peggy Eaton situation

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The election of 1824 resulted in Andrew Jackson being elected president that year.

answer

False

question

Which of the following was a factor in the split between Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun?

answer

the Nullification Crisis

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President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers, a protective tariff, a new national bank, and federal financing of roads and canals that came to be known as:

answer

the American System.

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Both John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson believed in states' rights to nullify federal law.

answer

False

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A significant element of the American System was:

answer

all of the above.

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Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

answer

The children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at age twenty-five.

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Define "suffrage" as used in the sentence, "Suffrage was the 'the first mark of liberty, the only true badge of the freeman.'

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the vote

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According to Martin Van Buren, political parties could serve to check the power of officeholders, counteract sectional divisions, and provide voters with genuine alternatives.

answer

True

question

The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the Nullification Crisis.

answer

True

question

By 1860, most states had eliminated ____________ from their voting requirements.

answer

property restrictions

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Which was not an attribute of Alexis de Tocqueville's vision of democracy?

answer

All Americans over age 21 ought to, Tocqueville wrote, have the right to vote.

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The Dorr War revolved around the issue of whether propertyless white men should have the right to vote.

answer

True

question

Between Democrats and Whigs, the Democrats found greater support among Catholic immigrants, subsistence farmers, and urban workers; the Whigs found greater support among wealthy landowners, well-connected businessmen, and Evangelical Protestants.

answer

True

question

Which of the following was not a paradoxical feature of Andrew Jackson's public career?

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Although suspicious of creditors and paper money, he was a leading defender of the Bank of the United States.

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What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?

answer

Whigs

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Which was not an aspect of the pageantry surrounding elections in nineteenth-century American democracy?

answer

the secret ballot

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Despite his reputation for stubbornness, President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the Nullification Crisis and the Bank War.

answer

False

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Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by:

answer

task labor.

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Separated by large gaps in wealth and breeding, planters and poorer whites of the Old South seldom found anything in common.

answer

False

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Which of the following was not true of the plain white folk of the Old South?

answer

Like slaves, they had few civil or political rights.

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For slaves, slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale, incessant toil, and brutal punishment.

answer

True

question

Which of the following was not a frequent mode of slave resistance?

answer

deadly assaults on slaveholders

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After a brief period of apprenticeship, the end of slavery in Britain came on August 1, 1838.

answer

True

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By 1860, more than half of the United States' exports were in:

answer

cotton

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During the early to mid-1800s, sugar produced in the slave South was America's leading export.

answer

False

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In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in:

answer

slaves.

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Which of the following was not a central theme of planter ideology?

answer

There is no place for fixed social hierarchies in a democratic republic.

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Which of the following was not a feature of slave culture?

answer

a notable indifference to gender roles

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"Slave patrols" were:

answer

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.

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According to abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, "not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness, even among slaveholders."

answer

True

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Which was not a condition of slavery?

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Slaves were not allowed to carry shotguns in South Carolina.

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In the fifty years following the end of the international slave trade in 1808, the number of slaves in the United States fell by 50 percent.

answer

False

question

Slaves had many ways to "quietly" resist the power of the slave owners—from feigning illness, to wrecking tools, to performing inadequate labor.

answer

True

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What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

answer

They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

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The southern state with the largest free black population in relation to its total African-American population was?

answer

Delaware

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Approximately how many enslaved individuals ran away to the North each year?

answer

1,000

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Which was not a restriction on free blacks in the Old South?

answer

They could own dogs and firearms.

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By 1860, economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.

answer

True

question

The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.

answer

False

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Which was not the case for free blacks?

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Most free blacks rose to the status of skilled, middle-class workers.

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The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was:

answer

Frederick Douglass.

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Cotton was "king" during the first half of the nineteenth century. Three-fourths of the world's supply came from the United States, and textile manufacturers in New England, Great Britain, France, and Russia depended on the American cotton supply. Define "textile."

answer

woven cloth

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Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and, indeed, the nation, but slaves also grew rice, sugarcane, tobacco, and hemp.

answer

True

question

Which was not a job slaves occupied?

answer

businessman

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In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately:

answer

25 percent.

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Slaves on cotton plantations found harsher work conditions but greater autonomy than did those on rice plantations.

answer

False

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"In southern cities, thousands of slaves were employed as skilled artisans." Define "artisan."

answer

skilled craftsman

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Slaves made up a significant portion of the Old South's

answer

all of the above.

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As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often:

answer

broke tools

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Improvements in the slaves' living conditions were meant to strengthen slavery, not undermine it.

answer

True

question

Following the Nat Turner Rebellion, the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.

answer

True

question

Which is not part of the generally accepted account of the 1822 conspiracy led by Denmark Vesey

answer

Vesey and his followers killed or maimed 37 whites.

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During the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, elaborate defenses of slavery grew more and more common in southern public life.

answer

True

question

Nat Turner:

answer

led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.

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The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.

answer

False

question

Often, many slaves supplemented the food provided by their owners with other food items including chickens and vegetables they raised themselves.

answer

True

question

Which of the following does not apply to the comparative experience of slaves and free blacks in the Old South?

answer

Between 1800 and 1860 the material conditions of free blacks steadily improved, while those of slaves steadily deteriorated.

question

Slaveowners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves—from physical punishment, to material incentives, to the threat of sale.

answer

True

question

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered "the most false and dangerous of all political errors," the view that:

answer

all men are created equal and entitled to liberty.

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In 1860, the South as a whole produced less than 10 percent of the nation's manufactured goods.

answer

True

question

During the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, southern whites increasingly viewed the region's free black population as a threat to the system of slavery.

answer

True

question

By the mid-nineteenth century (1800s), all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.

answer

True

question

Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?

answer

Harriet Tubman

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In 1860, three of four white families owned no slaves.

answer

True

question

In the years before the Civil War, the wealthiest Americans were:

answer

planters in South Carolina and Mississippi.

question

The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration, industrial development, and urban growth.

answer

True

question

Which of the following was not a part of slavery's impact on the northern economy?

answer

Slave labor in the southern Cotton Belt undermined cotton production in the North.

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In 1850, most slaveowning families owned five or fewer slaves.

answer

True

question

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

answer

marriage

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A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.

answer

True

question

In the midst of the American antebellum era, the British Parliament launched a program for abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1831.

answer

True

question

Slaves knew little of Christianity or the Bible, and slave masters usually withheld access to religion from their enslaved labor.

answer

False

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As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.

answer

False

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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:

answer

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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As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.

answer

False

question

The 1836 "gag rule":

answer

prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.

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The region of the United States that came to be known as the "burned-over district" as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was:

answer

Upstate New York and northern Ohio.

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Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?

answer

Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them, demands for equality in other areas seemed trivial by comparison.

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As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted all of the following views except that:

answer

schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.

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The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth-century American Revolutionaries, but instead, from nineteenth-century abolitionists.

answer

True

question

Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.

answer

False

question

Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.

answer

True

question

Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?

answer

a spirit of courage and defiance in the face of broad, often violent hostility

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By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.

answer

False

question

Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:

answer

wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.

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Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female orators in the country during her time.

answer

True

question

The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.

answer

True

question

Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.

answer

False

question

The American Colonization Society called for:

answer

a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.

question

Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.

answer

False

question

The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth-century United States included all of the following except societies to

answer

shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.

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According to Frederick Douglass, the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.

answer

False

question

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:

answer

the Declaration of Independence.

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Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?

answer

a conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion," then violent measures would become necessary

question

Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.

answer

False

question

In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.

answer

True

question

As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.

answer

True

question

American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:

answer

raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.

question

Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, '30s, and '40s?

answer

They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.

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Which was not true of Brook Farm?

answer

It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century.

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The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor, intellectual work, and leisure.

answer

True

question

Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?

answer

100,000

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Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.

answer

False

question

More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.

answer

False

question

Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?

answer

Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

answer

founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization

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William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin.

answer

False

question

Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.

answer

True

question

Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.

answer

False

question

Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).

answer

False

question

Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

answer

tariff reform

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A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.

answer

False

question

"Shakers" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.

answer

True

question

Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.

answer

True

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First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.

answer

False

question

Though women could not vote in the early-nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.

answer

True

question

Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.

answer

False

question

Which was not a chief endeavor of black abolitionists?

answer

They called for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.

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Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?

answer

settlement houses in cities

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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:

answer

abolitionism.

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Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:

answer

more humane treatment of the insane.

question

American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women's rights, and slavery.

answer

True

question

"Perfectionism" is the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could now be eradicated.

answer

True

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As they were committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.

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False

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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 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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"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 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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Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.

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False

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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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The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about:

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one hundred.

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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.

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False

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