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Burned-over districts were:

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in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.

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Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

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construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane.

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Which of the following was NOT a reform movement in which women played a prominent role during the early to mid-nineteenth century?

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the anti-Mexican-War movement

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What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

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that they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society

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The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:

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Helen of Troy, who sowed the seeds of male destruction.

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Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

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countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.

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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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Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

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was fundamentally a white society.

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Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?

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New Harmony: Indiana

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How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

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They argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically.

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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:

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The Liberator.

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At the end of their trek in the mid-1840s, Mormons led by Brigham Young founded:

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Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The American Tract Society was focused on:

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religion.

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How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

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The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately.

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All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCEPT:

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She was the first feminist leader educated at a major college.

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Who founded the Shakers?

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Ann Lee

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A young minister converted by the evangelical preacher Charles G. Finney, ____________ helped to create a mass constituency for abolitionism by training speakers and publishing pamphlets.

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Theodore Weld

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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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What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Angelina and Sarah Grimké:

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critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women.

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By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:

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encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol.

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Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

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help eliminate racial discrimination.

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The ____________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

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Liberty Party

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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.

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Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?

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They practiced "complex marriage" and publicly recorded sexual relations.

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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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The Oneida community:

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controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce.

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

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Catholics

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The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:

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tension between liberation and control in the era's reform movements.

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How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?

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They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.

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The gag rule:

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prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.

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William Lloyd Garrison:

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suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

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Freedom's Journal:

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was the first black-run newspaper in the United States

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Brook Farm:

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was founded by New England transcendentalists.

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The American Tract Society was focused on

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religion.

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What was a "bloomer" in the 1850s?

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a feminist style of dress

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The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

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were the Grimké sisters.

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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 organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:

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a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work.

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According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

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voluntary associations

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Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans:

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saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property.

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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 North-Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:

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David Walker.

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Frederick Douglass wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ____________ will occupy a large space in its pages."

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women

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The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:

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heaven.

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Which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by Joseph Smith, is FALSE?

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The Mormons were founded in the 1840s as an offshoot of Methodism.

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According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

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there was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees.

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Common schools:

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existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.

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The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:

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convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

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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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The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:

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heaven.

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