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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -common schools


A) made abolition a political movement
B) group of reformed drinkers
C) Seneca Falls Convention
D) New England transcendentalists
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F) tax-supported public schools
G) a vision for a perfect society
H) area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J) feminist style of dress
K) first U.S.black newspaper
L) movement against alcohol

M) J) and K)
N) G) and K)

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Most African-Americans enthusiastically favored the colonization idea and moving to Africa.

A) True
B) False

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


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.

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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Which state enacted a far-reaching law allowing married women to sign contracts and buy and sell property?


A) New Jersey.
B) Massachusetts.
C) Vermont.
D) Pennsylvania.
E) New York.

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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Abolitionists fought for the right to debate slavery openly and without reprisal.Analyze what led them to elevate "free opinion" to a central place in what William Lloyd Garrison called the "gospel of freedom."

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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.

F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

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William Lloyd Garrison:


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.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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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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Mob attacks and attempts to limit abolitionists' freedom of speech convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with the democratic liberties of white Americans.

A) True
B) False

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Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:


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 D)
G) None of the above

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In addition to trying to end slavery,abolitionists from 1830 to 1860 pioneered what?


A) The use of the telegraph.
B) A modern way of raising funds through fairs and bazaars.
C) The spread of the penny press.
D) Establishing various colonies in the Caribbean for ex-slaves.
E) Successfully getting guns to slaves.

F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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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) group of reformed drinkers
C) Seneca Falls Convention
D) New England transcendentalists
E) advocated blacks returning to Africa
F) tax-supported public schools
G) a vision for a perfect society
H) area of intensive revivals in New York and Ohio
I) preventing antislavery petitions to be heard in Congress
J) feminist style of dress
K) first U.S.black newspaper
L) movement against alcohol

M) D) and L)
N) B) and C)

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The gag rule:


A) stated that newspapers could not print antislavery materials.
B) prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.
C) denied women the right to speak in mixed-sex public gatherings.
D) prevented Congregational ministers from preaching against Catholics.
E) was adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention to symbolize that women did not have a voice in politics.

F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

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

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


A) Liberty Party
B) Whig Party
C) North Star Party
D) Republican Party
E) Afro-American Party

F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

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In general,Catholics supported the temperance movement.

A) True
B) False

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


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) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Who founded the Shakers?


A) Joseph Smith.
B) Ann Lee.
C) Aimee McPherson.
D) Louisa Alcott.
E) Robert Matthews.

F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

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MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Margaret Fuller


A) equated slavery with sin
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

M) E) and G)
N) A) and F)

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