GML Chapter 12 T/F – Flashcards
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According to Frederick Douglass, the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.
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Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.
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William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin
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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.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
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By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
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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.
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As they were committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.
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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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As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.
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Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.
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More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
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Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.
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Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
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Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
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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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First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.
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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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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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The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor, intellectual work, and leisure.
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Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.
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Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female orators in the country during her time.
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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.
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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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"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.
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The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth century American Revolutionaries, but instead, from nineteenth century abolitionists.
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"Perfectionism" is the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could now be eradicated.
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Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.
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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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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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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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