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A catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention in 1840 that dealt with

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abolition.

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A former slave, __________ __________ founded an antislavery newspaper and wrote his autobiography.

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Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionists successfully funded the legal battle and repatriation of Africans who seized the __________, a Spanish slave ship.

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Amistad

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All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT

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James Whistler.

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All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

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Sydney Smith.

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All of the following were American authors creating distinctively American literature EXCEPT

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Asher Durand.

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Americans contributed which of the following advances to medical science in the 1800s?

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-William Morton's use of either as an anesthetic. -Oliver Wendell Holmes's discovery that disease could be transmitted from person to person.

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Both Perfectionists and Shakers

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redefined traditional gender roles.

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Due to their commitment to _____, all Shakers had to choose the faith for themselves.

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celibacy

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During the nineteenth century, the largest obstacle to improved medical care in America was the

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absence of basic knowledge about disease.

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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, which established him as a major literary figure, was

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"The Raven".

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Edgar Allan Poe's work focused on individuals who were experiencing

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emotions of sadness and terror.

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How did Americans respond to the cholera epidemics of the 1830s and 1840s?

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-Threats to public health led to increased interest in new health theories. -Community health boards were created to address the spread of disease.

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How did anti-abolitionist sentiments affect the abolitionist movement in the late 1830s?

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Increased violence toward abolitionists created factions within the movement.

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How did free blacks in the North feel toward the slaves?

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They were empathetic and became actively involved in the abolition movement.

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How did Henry David Thoreau's beliefs shape his relationship with government?

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He refused to support any government that did not match his personal morals.

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How did William Lloyd Garrison negatively affect the abolitionist movement?

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His positions became radical, which troubled many in the movement.

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In his youth, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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was a Unitarian minister, until he left the clergy in 1832.

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In "Nature" (1836), __________ __________ __________ described a quest for fulfillment through communion with the natural world.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In order to practice his philosophy of withdrawing from society to live a simple life, Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin

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near Walden Pond.

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In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

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a small percentage of the national population.

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In the early nineteenth century, the American Colonization Society

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was founded by white Virginians opposed to slavery.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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None of these answers is correct.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the general European attitude toward American art and literature

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was that American artists had little to offer Europe.

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In the Oneida Community, women were protected from unwanted _____, while the most distinctive feature of Shakerism was _____.

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childbearing: celibacy

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In the West, missionaries established schools for American Indians, believing that

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Indians could be "civilized" by learning how to assimilate to white culture.

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One of the first communities of transcendentalists was

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Brook Farm.

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One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was

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Oneida.

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Popular nineteenth-century American painting aimed to capture

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the wonder and awe of rugged, wild landscapes.

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Prior to 1860, public education in the United States

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gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world.

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Prior to the Civil War, free blacks in the North tended to be

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strongly opposed to southern slavery.

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Prior to the Civil War, the Liberty Party

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promoted "free soil".

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Prior to the Civil War, the religious denomination most active in feminism was the

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Quakers.

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Reform movements emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century in part because of a

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desire for social stability and discipline in the face of change.

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Romantic authors in the South were more likely than writers in the North to

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defend the southern way of life, including slavery.

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Shaker societies

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saw women exercise more power than men.

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Solitary confinement was meant to give prisoners opportunities to meditate on their wrongdoings and develop "__________."

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penitence

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Southern antebellum writers often wrote

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historical romances.

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The antislavery movement in the early 1800s was based on the idea of

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colonization.

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The black abolitionist who called for uncompromising opposition to and a violent overthrow of slavery in his 1829 An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was

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David Walker.

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The early feminist movement began at a world antislavery convention when

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American women delegates were turned away.

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The first great American school of painters was known as the __________ __________ School.

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Hudson River

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The founders of the Perkins School for the Blind believed that

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even the blind or handicapped could discover inner strength and wisdom.

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The great network of institutions and charitable services for handicapped individuals that developed during the prewar years was known as the

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Benevolent Empire.

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The Hudson River school of painters emphasized in their work the importance of

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natural beauty.

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The Massachusetts reformer who built a national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

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Dorothea Dix.

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The meeting at Seneca Falls in 1848 generated a statement on women's rights patterned on the

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Declaration of Independence.

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The most important and popular American painters of the early nineteenth century

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considered untamed nature the best source of inspiration......????

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The nineteenth-century Protestant revivalist movement, known as the __________ __________ Awakening, was based on the idea that everyone was capable of salvation and spiritual rebirth.

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Second Great

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The primary goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was to

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permit all members to realize their full potential as individual beings.

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The prison reform movement sought to rehabilitate inmates through

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-solitary confinement. -silence on prison work crews.

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The pseudoscience of __________ made inferences about individuals' intelligence and character by studying the shape of their skull.

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phrenology

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The Second Great Awakening combined which two elements of nineteenth-century American culture?

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-reform movements. -Protestant revivalism.

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The Supreme Court ruling in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

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led to the passage of "personal liberty laws".

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The tradition of American regional humor established by the southern literary realists found its most powerful voice in the works of

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Mark Twain.

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The transcendentalists defined reason as an individual's

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capacity to grasp truth and beauty by expressing emotions.

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The transcendentalists defined understanding as an individual's

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capacity to repress instincts and to use the intellect to learn by rote.

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The transcendentalists viewed nature as a

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source of deep personal inspiration.

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The transcendentalists were among the first Americans to

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anticipate the environmental movement of the twentieth century.

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Through novels such as The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper examined the significance of

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America's westward expansion.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin gained national popularity in the mid-nineteenth century by being reproduced in which of the following forms?

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-theatrical production. -novel.

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Upon which document in American History is the language of the Declaration of Sentiments based?

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Declaration of Independence

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Walt Whitman's poetry helped make _____ one of the defining ideals of antebellum America.

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individualism

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What has been the effect of marriage on women, according to the document?

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Husbands essentially become masters.

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What is the effect on the morality of women that results from male privileges, according to the Declaration?

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Women become irresponsible.

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What is the position of the Declaration of Sentiments on the question of female suffrage?

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It is an inalienable right.

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What most distinguished James Fenimore Cooper as a truly American novelist?

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He celebrated the American wilderness.

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What was the biggest problem facing American medicine in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Doctors had little understanding of how disease was spread.

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What was the result for women who owned property in their own name?

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They were taxed without representation.

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What was unique about William Lloyd Garrison's philosophy of abolition?

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-He believed abolitionists should view slavery from the point of view of slaves. -He believed that the antidote to slavery was full American citizenship for all slaves.

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Which of the following accurately describe transcendentalists' mode of communal living?

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-They used manual labor to transition from a world of intellect to the natural world. -They equally shared in the labor so each could have leisure time to cultivate the self.

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Which of the following best describes formal schooling in the South before the Civil War?

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African Americans were barred from formal education, and only one-third of white children were enrolled in schools.

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Which of the following best describes the proportion of northerners who were pro-abolition?

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a small minority

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Which of the following best describes the state of public education in 1830?

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No state had a system of universal public education.

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Which of the following best reflects white male abolitionists' attitudes toward female abolitionists?

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It was inappropriate for women to be outspoken activists.

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Which of the following is NOT a Mormon belief?

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Life-long celibacy is important.

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Which of the following major writers of the antebellum period was a southerner?

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Which of the following statements is true of free blacks living in the North in 1850?

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They were at times poorer than slaves in the South.

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Which of the following was NOT a demand made in the "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions"?

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Women should have their own social spheres.

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Which of the following was NOT a health fad in the antebellum years?

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antibiotics

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Which of the following was NOT a reason that many northern whites were against abolition?

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The abolition movement was rapidly gaining ground among whites in the South.

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Which of the following was NOT an idea Walt Whitman celebrated in his work?

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urban living

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Which of the following were goals established at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention for women's rights?

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-the right to vote. -equality with men.

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Which of the following were NOT reforms implemented by Horace Mann?

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-making school attendance mandatory for individuals under 16. -lengthening the academic year to nine months.

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Which of the following were problems for doctors in the early 1800s?

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-Many traditional physicians mistrusted innovation and experimentation. -They were not highly regarded in their communities. -Many of their peers were quacks or poorly educated.

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Which of the following women were among the leaders of the nineteenth-century feminist movement?

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-Elizabeth Cady Stanton. -Susan B. Anthony. -Dorothea Dix.

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Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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It advocated sexual equality.

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Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?

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Walt Whitman

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Who led the migration of 12,000 Mormons from Illinois to what would become Salt Lake City, Utah?

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Brigham Young

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Who wrote the 1841 novel The Deerslayer?

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Why did early efforts to end slavery by repatriating slaves fail?

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Many African Americans were not interested in emigrating to Africa.

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Why did many of the early feminists also identify as Quakers?

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-Many Quaker preachers and community leaders were women. -Many Quakers believed in sexual equality.

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Why is the rhetoric of this document so effective?

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The language is based historically on the Declaration of Independence.

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