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29 Cards in this Set
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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 was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
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tariff reform
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Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?
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Virtually no traces of racial prejudice found their way into the movement.
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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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At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of “complex marriage.” “Complex marriage” at Oneida meant:
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any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.
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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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The 1836 “gag rule”:
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prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
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Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and ’40s?
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political party conventions
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Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society:
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wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.
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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 region of the United States that came to be known as the “burned-over district” as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was:
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Upstate New York and northern Ohio.
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison’s Thoughts on African Colonization
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Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen’s early nineteenth-century utopian communities?
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Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
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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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Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
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a conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by “moral suasion,” then violent measures would become necessary
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Dorthea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of:
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more humane treatment of the insane.
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The founder and earliest leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1820 was:
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Joseph Smith.
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Which was not true of Brook Farm?
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It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century.
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“Perfectionism” was (is) the view that:
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social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
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As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted all of the following views except that:
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schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.
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The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth century United States included all of the following except societies to:
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shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
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The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of the freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
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abolitionism.
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Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?
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Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.
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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.
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The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call “utopian” communities—such as the Oneidan, Owenite, or Fourierist communities—numbered about:
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one hundred.
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The Liberty Bell took on its name—previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell—after:
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abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause of abolishing slavery.
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Which was not a chief endeavor of black abolitionists?
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They called for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
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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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Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s, ’30s, and ’40s?
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They differed little in their systems of labor, gender relations, and internal governance.
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