What was most significant about Theodore Weld's work as an abolitionist?
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He helped to create a larger movement.
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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 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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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 Catharine Beecher, how were women supposed to influence people on an issue?
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Demonstrate peace and love.
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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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Why did Freedom's Journal stop publishing?
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The editor felt frustrated that African-Americans would never achieve full rights.
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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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Who in Congress worked tirelessly to end the gag rule?
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John Quincy Adams.
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About ________ reform communities, often called utopian communities, were established in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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100
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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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African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:
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promoted the ideal of a color-blind society.
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How did Margaret Fuller demonstrate that women could be leaders?
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She edited the New York Tribune.
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What was ironic about the Fugitive Slave Act?
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The South promoted states' rights, but with this law agreed to strong federal action.
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The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?
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Japan became a modernized military power.
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What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
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Besides California, other territory acquired from the Mexican-American War would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery.
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Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?
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Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves.
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The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
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protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
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The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
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Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
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By casting their ballots for the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell in the 1860 election, what did people in Virginia and Kentucky fear?
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The voters worried that an impending civil war would lead to war being fought in their respective states.
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In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:
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Massachusetts.
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Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
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Who wrote On Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
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Henry David Thoreau.
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After gaining its independence, what resulted in the new independent nation of Texas?
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Anglos initially supported Juan SeguÃn, a Tejano supporter of Texas independence, as mayor of San Antonio.
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The Republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:
What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840?
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Making slavery a prominent topic of conversation.
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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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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 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.
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The American Tract Society was focused on:
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religion.
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What distinguished John Brown from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass?
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Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves.
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The Free Soil Party:
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demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
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The Lecompton Constitution was the:
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proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas.
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What happened under the constitution of independent Texas?
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People of color had had more freedoms and rights when Mexico previously controlled Texas.
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According to John L. O'Sullivan's Democratic Review, what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
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Race
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The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ________ had begun advocating in 1846.
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David Wilmot
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During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas:
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insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision.
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