History 147 Quiz 2

Burned-over districts were:

Dorothea Dix devoted much time to the crusade for the:

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

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

Before the Civil War, who came to believe that the U.S. Constitution did not provide national protection to the institution of slavery?

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

Which of the following correctly pairs the reform community with the state in which it was located?

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

William Lloyd Garrison published an abolitionist newspaper called:

At the end of their trek in the mid-1840s, Mormons led by Brigham Young founded:

The American Tract Society was focused on:

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCEPT:

Who founded the Shakers?

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.

William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?

Angelina and Sarah Grimké:

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

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

The ____________ was established in hopes of making abolitionism a political movement.

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

Which statement about Shakers is FALSE?

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

The Oneida community:

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

The proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouses and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the:

How did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage?

The gag rule:

William Lloyd Garrison:

Freedom's Journal:

Brook Farm:

The American Tract Society was focused on

What was a "bloomer" in the 1850s?

The first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women:

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

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

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

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

The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:

The North-Carolina-born free black whose Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World won widespread attention was:

Frederick Douglass wrote, "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ____________ will occupy a large space in its pages."

The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from:

Which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by Joseph Smith, is FALSE?

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

Common schools:

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837:

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments:

The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from: