Question 1

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

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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.

Question 2

William Lloyd Garrison argued in Thoughts on African Colonization that:

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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.

Question 3

How did Margaret Fuller demonstrate that women could be leaders?

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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.

Question 4

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

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A)   Catholics.
B)   Protestants.
C)   Women.
D)   Perfectionists.
E)   Northern middle class.

Question 5

Although it lasted only a few years,the New Harmony community:

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A)   demonstrated that workers could function without discipline.
B)   influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates.
C)   popularized the abolitionist movement.
D)   allowed Josiah Warren to prove his point about absolute individual freedom.
E)   inspired the formation of more than a dozen offshoot communities by 1850.

Question 6

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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A)   20
B)   50
C)   100
D)   200
E)   500

Question 7

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

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Freedom celebrations refer to the variou...

Question 8

The American Temperance Society directed its efforts at the drunkards but not the occasional drinker.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What was the purpose of the bloomer?

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A)   It was designed to make single women more physically attractive.
B)   It was functional clothing that made work less restrictive.
C)   It was made for stage performances in New York.
D)   It was military garb for Union soldiers.
E)   It was clothing for religious ceremonies.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

The role of African-Americans in the abolitionist movement:

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A)   was limited to the writings and speeches of Frederick Douglass.
B)   included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.
C)   showed that the movement was free from the racism that characterized American society.
D)   was limited because the American Anti-Slavery Society banned them from its board of directors.
E)   grew over time until,by the 1850s,the movement was dominated by blacks.

Question 12

What was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840?

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A)   Getting all slaves freed.
B)   Helping free,on average,5,000 slaves a year.
C)   Getting Abraham Lincoln elected president.
D)   Making slavery a prominent topic of conversation.
E)   Gaining the right to vote for women.

Question 13

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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Theodore Weld's argument about the sinfu...

Question 14

Although it was an exciting miniature university,the transcendentalists' Brook Farm community failed in part because many of the intellectuals who participated disliked farm labor.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Do you agree with the assertion that blacks viewed freedom in a different way than did whites? Defend or reject this idea using examples from the text.

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I agree with the assertion that blacks v...

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)   newspaper editors
B)   black abolitionists
C)   freed slaves
D)   white abolitionists
E)   women

Question 17

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

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Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Frederick Douglass.
B)   William Lloyd Garrison.
C)   David Walker.
D)   John C.Calhoun.
E)   Jennings Randolph.

Question 19

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,when published,went virtually unknown for two decades but then became popular in the 1850s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Brook Farm

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A)  made abolition a political movement
B)  group of reformed drinkers
C)  Seneca Falls Convention
D)  New England transcendentalists
E)  advocated blacks returning to AfricaF) tax-supported public schoolsG) a vision for a perfect societyH) area of intensive revivals in New York and OhioI) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in CongressJ) feminist style of dressK) first U.S.black newspaperL) movement against alcohol

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