US History Quiz 7 – Flashcards
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What served as the major impetus on the reform movements of the nineteenth century?
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Second Great Awakening
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Most southerners did not worry about the influence of abolitionism on their slaves since the leading abolitionists lived in the North.
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False
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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:
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Led them to reject the nations pretensions as a land of liberty
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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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"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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How did the the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from esrlier antislavery efforts?
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The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction thst slavery was an unparralleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately.
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The Seneca Falls Conventions Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the:
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Declaration of Independence
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"To members of the Norths emerging middle-class culture, reform became a badge of respectability."
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True
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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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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:
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The Liberator
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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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Common schools:
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Existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.
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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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What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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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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The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South.
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False
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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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"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 Seneca Falls Conventions Declaration of Sentiments:
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Condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.
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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
