Exam 12: An Age of Reform, 1820-1840

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The Grimké-Beecher debate was a significant discussion in the 19th century over the role of women in the abolitionist movement. Angelina Grimké and Catharine Beecher were two prominent figures who held opposing views on the issue. Angelina Grimké was a strong advocate for women's involvement in the abolitionist movement and believed that women had a crucial role to play in the fight against slavery. She argued that women had the right to speak out and participate in public activism, challenging the traditional gender roles of the time. Grimké believed that women should be seen as equals in society and should have the same rights and opportunities as men. On the other hand, Catharine Beecher held more conservative views and believed that women's place was in the domestic sphere. She argued that women should focus on their roles as wives and mothers, and should not engage in public activism or political movements. Beecher believed that women's influence should be exerted within the home and through moral guidance, rather than through direct involvement in social and political issues. In today's world, it is clear that Angelina Grimké's views are more realized. Women are actively involved in social and political movements, and their voices are being heard on a global scale. Women have made significant strides in achieving equality and are no longer confined to the domestic sphere. The fight for women's rights and gender equality has made great progress, and women are now seen as equals in society, with the same rights and opportunities as men. This is a testament to the impact of Grimké's advocacy for women's involvement in social and political activism.

A) secretly financed Nat Turner's Rebellion.
B) began publishing his newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, in 1831, but moved it to friendlier territory two years later.
C) attracted little support from fellow abolitionists, but historians have discovered his importance.
D) suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.
E) published American Slavery as It Is, an influential pamphlet.

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A) "Don't tread on me."
B) "These are the times that try men's souls."
C) "Give me Liberty or give me death."
D) "No taxation without representation."
E) "One if by land, and two if by sea."

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A) They seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery.
B) They cracked the Liberty Bell to signify that the bonds of liberty were breaking under the weight of slavery.
C) They used mob action, just as the revolutionaries had when they attacked such disagreeable measures as the Stamp Act.
D) They reminded audiences constantly that the main issue the Sons of Liberty and similar groups had invoked was liberty.
E) They made a heroic figure of Crispus Attucks, the African-American who died at the Boston Massacre.

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A) She headed the Brook Farm commune.
B) She presided over the convention at Seneca Falls.
C) She was elected to the state house.
D) She edited the New York Tribune.
E) She lived in Italy.

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Frederick Douglass was indeed correct in...

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A) That the persons entering these institutions would likely never leave them.
B) That they were not widely needed, and not many were built.
C) That they would be excellent holding centers for society's undesirables.
D) That the persons in the facilities could be used as forced labor in factories.
E) That they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society.

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A) The spiritual groups emphasized secularism.
B) World-orientation groups had no dissension.
C) Both groups were anomalies that had little influence on the world.
D) Spiritual groups usually lasted for longer time periods.
E) World-orientation societies were more likely to regulate relations between the sexes.

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Oneida was a utopian community founded i...

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A) immediate abolition of slavery.
B) establishment of common schools in the South.
C) better treatment of convicted criminals in jail.
D) construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane.
E) right for women to vote in local school elections.

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A) were limited to the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass.
B) promoted the ideal of a color-blind society.
C) showed that the movement was free from the racism that characterized American society.
D) were limited because the American Anti-Slavery Society banned them from its board of directors.
E) grew in number over time until, by the 1850s, the movement was dominated by blacks.

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The antebellum reform movements of the 1...

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A) trained many abolitionist speakers
B) The Liberator
C) Uncle Tom's Cabin
D) accepted men as "the superior"
E) organized the Seneca Falls Convention
F) advocate for the mentally ill
G) leading educational reformer
H) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
I) editor and martyr of the abolitionist movement
J) Letters on the Equality of the Sexes
K) New Harmony
L) Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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A) followed all the laws but simply banned ownership of private property.
B) usually followed standard gender and marital relations.
C) made no effort to combat the growing disparity between rich and poor.
D) called themselves utopian because they knew that their efforts were likely to fail.
E) set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis.

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