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"Perfectionism" was the idea that:

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improving society was not possible.

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Although it lasted only a few years, the New Harmony community:

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influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates.

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At the end of their trek, Mormons led by Brigham Young founded:

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Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

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Frederick Douglass

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Horace Mann believed that public schools would

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provide an avenue for social advancement.

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In David Walker's An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, all of the following were true EXCEPT that he: Select one: a. warned against divine punishment. b. advocated force in ending slavery. c. promoted colonization for ex-slaves. d. condemned racism. e. took pride in African societies.

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promoted colonization for ex-slaves.

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Many reform movements:

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drew inspiration from the Second Great Awakening.

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Members of which one of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

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Catholics

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The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:

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prompted the adamant opposition of most free African-Americans.

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The gag rule:

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prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions

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The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

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set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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was primarily an independent one, as they regularly held their own conventions.

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The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

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condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.

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What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

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the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery

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William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

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blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.

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Abolitionists consciously identified their movement with the heritage of the American Revolution.

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True

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Abolitionists said property rights were more important than personal liberty.

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False

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Abolitionists were among the first to appreciate the key role of public opinion in a mass democracy, focusing their efforts on awakening the nation to the moral evil of slavery.

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True

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As women began to take an active role in abolition, public speaking for women became socially acceptable to most Americans.

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False

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Black abolitionists articulated the ideal of color-blind citizenship more than most white contemporaries.

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True

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By 1860, all but two states had established tax-supported school systems for its children.

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False

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Dorothea Dix devoted her life to the cause of temperance, founding the American Temperance Organization

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False

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin gave the abolitionist message a powerful human appeal as it was based on the life of the fugitive slave Josiah Henson.

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True

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In 1817, free blacks assembled in Philadelphia for the first national black convention

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True

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In general, Catholics supported the temperance movement.

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False

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Institutions like jails, mental hospitals, and public schools were inspired by the conviction that those who passed through their doors could eventually be released to become productive, self-disciplined citizens.

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True

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Many abolitionists were fairly violent, and they attempted to aggressively convince the slaveholder of his sinful ways.

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False

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Mob attacks and attempts to limit abolitionists' freedom of speech convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans.

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True

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Most African-Americans enthusiastically favored the colonization idea and moving to Africa.

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False

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Nearly all abolitionists, despite their militant language, rejected violence as a means of ending slavery.

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True

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The abolitionist movement split in two in part because Abby Kelley had been appointed to an office within the American Anti-Slavery Society, which angered some men who believed it was wrong for women to occupy such a prominent position.

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True

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The American Temperance Society directed its efforts at the drunkards, but not the occasional drinker.

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False

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The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South.

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False

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The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice, freedom, and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

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True

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The Mormons under Joseph Smith strongly supported the principle of separation of church and state.

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False

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The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as women's "sphere."

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False

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The Shakers believed God had a dual personality, both male and female.

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True

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Theodore Weld had been influenced by preacher Charles G. Finney.

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True

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To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture, reform became a badge of respectability.

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True

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