Exam 12: An Age of Reform, 1820-1840

A) Work diligently.
B) Get a college education.
C) Demonstrate peace and love.
D) Learn how to shoot a gun.
E) Show the best way to do domestic duties.

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A) There was no hope for the United States, since many of the founders were slaveowners.
B) The American Revolution was a good starting point for principles of freedom.
C) Religion needed to play a more significant role in the starting of the United States.
D) It was acceptable for Thomas Jefferson to be a slaveholder because he had many accomplishments.
E) The three-fifths clause helped slaves.

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A) The movement led to most immigrants becoming Methodist and Baptist.
B) It led to women's suffrage by the time of the Civil War.
C) The religious aspect led to alcohol being banned in the United States.
D) It inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as alcoholism.
E) The movement deemphasized self-control.

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A) It had its offices ransacked.
B) The newspaper had accomplished its goal of ending slavery.
C) The women editors had been widely harassed on their stand for female equality.
D) The editor felt frustrated that African-Americans would never achieve full rights.
E) Frederick Douglass purchased the newspaper and merged it with his own.

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A) saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted that members give up their property.
B) feared the Communist Party that endorsed and, in some cases, sponsored these communities.
C) were Protestants, but all utopian communities required members to deny religious beliefs.
D) supported the industrial revolution, but most utopian communities turned away from industry in favor of an agrarian lifestyle.
E) considered the utopian communities to be too materialistic and selfish.

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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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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.

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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) 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.

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A) He helped to create a larger movement.
B) Ministers could preach that slavery was a necessary evil.
C) It contradicted passages in the Bible that seemed to be proslavery.
D) It allowed ministers like William Lloyd Garrison to take on a leadership role.
E) It led to Frederick Douglass gaining his freedom.

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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.

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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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A) Beecher did not like the idea of women taking a lead role in the abolition movement.
B) Beecher was proslavery and wanted to extend slavery.
C) The Grimkés thought the abolitionist movement was too radical and should not try to end slavery immediately.
D) The Grimkés did not like Beecher's father, Lyman, who was a minister.
E) Frederick Douglass did not support women's rights, which angered the Grimkés.

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