Question 1

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

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condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women.

Question 2

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

Question 3

What was a bloomer in the 1850s?

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a feminist style of dress

Question 4

Angelina and Sarah Grimk&eacute;:

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critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women.

Question 5

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.

Question 6

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

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construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane.

Question 7

The gag rule:

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prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.

Question 8

The reform communities established in the years before the Civil War:

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set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

Question 9

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

Question 10

Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?

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They practiced complex marriage and publicly recorded sexual relations.

Question 11

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.

Question 12

Although it only lasted a few years, the New Harmony community:

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influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates.

Question 13

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

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help eliminate racial discrimination.

Question 14

According to the mid-nineteenth-century physicians and racial theorists Josiah Nott and George Gliddon:

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there was a hierarchy of races, with blacks forming a separate species between whites and chimpanzees.

Question 15

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.

Question 16

William Lloyd Garrison:

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suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

Question 17

Burned-over districts were:

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in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.

Question 18

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:

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convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

Question 19

The Oneida community:

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controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce.

Question 20

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.

Question 21

Who founded the Shakers?

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Ann Lee

Question 22

By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:

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encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol.

Question 23

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.

Question 24

Brook Farm:

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was founded by New England transcendentalists.

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