Chapter 12 - Age Of Reform

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According to Catharine Beecher, how were women supposed to influence people on an issue?
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Demonstrate peace and love.
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How did the Second Great Awakening influence American society?
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It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as alcoholism.
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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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David Walker
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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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Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Frederick Douglass?
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Garrison saw the Constitution as evil.
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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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In his speech about the Fourth of July, how did Frederick Douglass critique the founding of the United States?
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The Declaration of Independence was a good starting point for principles of freedom
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How did Robert Owen first establish himself?
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He founded a model factory village in Scotland.
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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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According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?
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voluntary associations
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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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What inspired Noyes's idea of achieving perfection?
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Religious revivals.
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William Lloyd Garrison:
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American Abolitionist, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, promoted immediate emancipation
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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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What prompted the debate between Catherine Beecher and the Grimké sisters?
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Beecher did not like the idea of women taking a lead role in the abolition movement
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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 the Shakers is true?
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They believed that women were spiritually equal to men.
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The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:
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included helping to finance The Liberator.