Question 1

What did reformers commonly believe about prisons and asylums?

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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.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

The participants at Seneca Falls embraced the identification of the home as the women's "sphere."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

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A)   Slavery.
B)   Education reform.
C)   The temperance movement.
D)   Merchants trading with Europe.
E)   Utopian societies promoting free love.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 4

Burned-over districts were:

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A)   areas in New York City where slaves had set fires.
B)   in Louisiana, where slaves had burned cotton fields as a form of resistance.
C)   regions where few evangelical Protestants lived (as though they had been burned out) .
D)   in Kansas and Nebraska, where fighting broke out over issues of slavery.
E)   in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A)  equated slavery with sin
B)  The Liberator
C)  Uncle Tom's Cabin
D)  accepted men as "the superior"
E)  organized the Seneca Falls ConventionF) advocate for the mentally illG) leading educational reformerH) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the WorldI) editor and martyr of the abolitionist movementJ) Letters on the Equality of the SexesK) New HarmonyL) Woman in the Nineteenth CenturyM) A) and B)
N) A) and K)

Question 6

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.F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 7

The abolitionist movement split in two in part because Abby Kelley had been appointed to an office within the American Anti-Slavery Society,which angered some men who believed it was wrong for a woman to occupy such a prominent position.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The Oneida community:

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A)   allowed each member an equal vote in governing the community.
B)   permitted all of its members to own private property.
C)   banished any member who divulged any information about the community's sexual practices.
D)   invented the concept of birth control in America.
E)   controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce.F) C) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 9

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

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A)  equated slavery with sin
B)  The Liberator
C)  Uncle Tom's Cabin
D)  accepted men as "the superior"
E)  organized the Seneca Falls ConventionF) advocate for the mentally illG) leading educational reformerH) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the WorldI) editor and martyr of the abolitionist movementJ) Letters on the Equality of the SexesK) New HarmonyL) Woman in the Nineteenth CenturyM) B) and J)
N) K) and L)

Question 10

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

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Oneida was a utopian community founded i...

Question 11

Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Frederick Douglass?

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A)   Garrison wanted equal rights for African-Americans.
B)   Douglass wanted women to play a role in abolitionism.
C)   Douglass wanted ex-slaves to leave the United States.
D)   Douglass favored a gradual end to slavery.
E)   Garrison saw the Constitution as evil.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

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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Question 13

Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

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A)   countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species.
B)   presenting the compositions of Henry Highland Garnet to disprove the belief that African culture was inferior because it produced no classical music composers.
C)   pointing to Haiti, the scene of the famous slave revolts of the 1790s and 1800s, as a model of civilization.
D)   making January 1, the anniversary of the end of the international slave trade, a holiday throughout the North until the end of the Civil War.
E)   nominating Frederick Douglass for president in 1852 and winning him Vermont's electoral votes.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 14

The antebellum utopian communities were largely located in the Upper South.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Washingtonian Society

Accepted Answer

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 alcoholM) I) and L)
N) None of the above

Question 16

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

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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.F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Brook Farm: Virginia.
B)   Oneida: Massachusetts.
C)   Zoar: Maine.
D)   New Harmony: Indiana.
E)   Modern Times: Tennessee.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Overall,how did utopian societies and worldly communities perceive women?

Accepted Answer

A)   A woman's place was in the home.
B)   Women needed to serve in the military.
C)   The prostitution of women was an example of free love.
D)   Women should not participate in religious services.
E)   Women needed to be treated as equals.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 19

In general,Catholics supported the temperance movement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

How did the fairs of abolitionists expand on the Christmas holiday?

Accepted Answer

A)   They added more church services.
B)   They made it mandatory for all members of abolitionist societies to attend church on Christmas day.
C)   They helped to create the idea of a Christmas shopping season.
D)   They encouraged slaveowners to teach slaves about Christmas.
E)   They created the Christmas tree.F) C) and E)
G) None of the above

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