HumanitiesChapter 12 example #15989
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Chapter 12

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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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Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?
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They practiced "complex marriage" and publicly recorded sexual relations.
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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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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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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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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 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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Common schools:
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existed in every northern state by the time of the Civil War.
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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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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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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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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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William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:
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The Liberator.
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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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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 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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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 gag rule:
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prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.
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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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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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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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Angelina and Sarah Grimké:
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critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women.
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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 was a "bloomer" in the 1850s?
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a feminist style of dress
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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.