Overall, how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women?
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Women needed to be treated as equals.
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How did utopian leaders differ from Henry David Thoreau?
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Thoreau focused on the individual while utopian leaders emphasized the community.
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What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?
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utopian societies promoting free love
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If the American Tract Society existed today, which of the following would anger this group?
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businesses opening on Sundays to run special advertised sales
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Why did abolitionism's focus move from a more gradual approach to calling for the immediate approach of
ending slavery?
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Slavery was growing in the Deep South, so a different approach was needed.
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What was the purpose of the bloomer?
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It was functional clothing that made work less restrictive.
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Abby Kelley:
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demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements.
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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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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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Who founded the Shakers?
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Ann Lee
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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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Brook Farm:
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was founded by New England transcendentalists.
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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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Burned-over districts were:
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in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.
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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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The American Tract Society was focused on:
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religion.
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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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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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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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The North Carolina-born free black whose An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread
attention was:
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vid Walker.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Freedom's Journal:
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was the first black-run newspaper in the United States.
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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.
