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

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settlement houses in cities

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The American Colonization Society called for

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

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

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

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

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True

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

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False

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Which was NOT a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?

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tariff reform

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The Liberty Bell—previously known as the Old State House Bell—took on its new name after

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abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause for abolishing slavery.

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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.

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True

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

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False

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

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

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The 1836 "gag rule"

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

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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," which at Oneida meant

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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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Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society

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

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

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False

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

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

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

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True

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Which of the following was NOT an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

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political party conventions

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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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100

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

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False

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

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False

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

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the Declaration of Independence.

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Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts schoolteacher, was the leading proponent of

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more humane treatment of the insane.

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

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True

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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.

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True

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

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True

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

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False

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Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.

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False

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American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s

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

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

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False

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Which was NOT an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?

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Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.

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

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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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Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.

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False

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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

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abolitionism.

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

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100,000

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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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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.

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True

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Abby Kelley was first and foremost a tariff reform activist.

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False

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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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