Question 1

Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans:

Accepted Answer

Saw property ownership as key to to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property

Question 2

Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?

Accepted Answer

Catholics

Question 3

Horace Mann believe that public schools would do all the following except:

Accepted Answer

Help eliminate racial discrimination

Question 4

Like Indian removal, the colonialization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

Accepted Answer

Was fundamentally a white society

Question 5

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier anti-slavery efforts?

Accepted Answer

The later movement drew much more on religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled soon And needed to be destroyed immediately

Question 6

How did the abolitionist link themselves to the nations revolutionary heritage?

Accepted Answer

They seized on the preamble to the declaration of independence as an attack against slavery.

Question 7

Abolitionist challenged stereotypes about African-American by:

Accepted Answer

Countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.

Question 8

Which of the following was not a reform movement in which women played a prominent role during the early to mid-19 century?

Accepted Answer

The anti-Mexican war movement

Question 9

Angelina and Sarah Grimke:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:

Accepted Answer

A dispute concerning the proper role of women in anti-slavery work.

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