HIS 131 Chp 12 – Flashcards
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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 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 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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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 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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The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by
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William Lloyd Garrison
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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 1836 "gag rule"
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prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
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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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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.
