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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -William Lloyd Garrison


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


A) An Appeal to Reason.
B) Society in America.
C) Twelve Years a Slave.
D) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
E) Slavery as It Is.

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Black abolitionists developed an understanding of freedom that went well beyond that of most of their white contemporaries.

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -institution building

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Explain how the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening popularized the outlook known as perfectionism, which held that both individuals and society at large were capable of indefinite improvement. How did this idea of perfectionism relate to the various reform movements that arose in the antebellum period?

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


A) Actually, the two movements were quite similar in every way; the later one was simply more well-known because more people were literate by the 1830s.
B) The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately.
C) Earlier opponents of slavery had called for immediate emancipation, but the later group devised a plan for gradual emancipation that won broader support.
D) The later movement banned participation by African-Americans, because they feared that their involvement would cause a backlash.
E) The movement of the 1830s introduced the idea of colonizing freed slaves outside the United States, which proved immensely popular with southern whites.

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William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:


A) blacks could never fully achieve equality in America and would be happier in Africa.
B) because slaves were uneducated, it was necessary to educate them in America before sending them to Africa.
C) blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society.
D) colonization should be subsidized through a tax on cotton.
E) because blacks had no political experience, Garrison himself ought to be appointed governor of the African colony.

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -American Tract Society


A) made abolition a political movement
B) promoting religious virtue
C) Seneca Falls Convention
D) indefinite improvement
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F) tax-supported institutions
G) a vision for a perfect society
H) merchants opposed to abolitionism
I) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J) feminist style of dress
K) first U.S. black newspaper
L) movement against alcohol

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What were the women at Seneca Falls advocating? Be sure to explain how they understood freedom and liberty. What methods were the feminists using to promote their cause?

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Grimké-Beecher debate

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


A) was fundamentally a white society.
B) wanted what was in the best interest of all the people.
C) was not financially able to support all who lived there.
D) provided opportunity for new land to those who desired it.
E) was a land of diversity and equality.

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Angelina and Sarah Grimké:


A) supported Catharine Beecher's efforts to expand political and social rights for women.
B) critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women.
C) were Pennsylvania-born Quakers whose religion compelled them to oppose slavery.
D) publicly defended the virtues of southern paternalism in lectures to southern women.
E) delivered many public lectures in which they detailed their escape from slavery.

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At Oneida, celibacy was strictly enforced.

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To what extent was Theodore Weld's argument about the sinfulness of slavery not only radical but also necessary for the popularization of immediate abolition?

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Robert Owen


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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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -the Liberty Party


A) made abolition a political movement
B) promoting religious virtue
C) Seneca Falls Convention
D) indefinite improvement
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F) tax-supported institutions
G) a vision for a perfect society
H) merchants opposed to abolitionism
I) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J) feminist style of dress
K) first U.S. black newspaper
L) movement against alcohol

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -perfectionism


A) made abolition a political movement
B) promoting religious virtue
C) Seneca Falls Convention
D) indefinite improvement
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F) tax-supported institutions
G) a vision for a perfect society
H) merchants opposed to abolitionism
I) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J) feminist style of dress
K) first U.S. black newspaper
L) movement against alcohol

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The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after:


A) Letters on the Equality of the Sexes.
B) The U.S. Constitution.
C) Woman of the Nineteenth Century.
D) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
E) The Declaration of Independence.

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Elijah Lovejoy

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The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice, freedom, and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

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