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For which action is Nat Turner well known?
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Nat Turner was known for leading
a violent slave revolt |
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What did the abolition movement promote?
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The Abolition movement promoted
ending the institution of slavery |
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What is the cult of domesticity?
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It is a belief that married women's activities should
be limited to housework and family
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Which of the following was not a problem
faced by "mill girls" in Massachusetts?
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lack of safe places to stay |
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In which philosophical movement was
Ralph Waldo Emerson a leader? |
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What is the Second Great Awakening?
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It was the belief that a person's salvation
depended on his or her own efforts |
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Who was Frederick Douglass and
what action did he favor? |
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He was an abolitionist and
he favored political action to end slavery |
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What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
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A convention for Women's Rights.
The right to vote was ONLY NARROWLY APPROVED
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| What did the temperance movement recognized? |
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Definition
It recognized the
destructive effects of drunkenness on family life |
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Who were the majority of workers in textile
factories in the 1820s?
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| Who helped launch the Second Great Awakening? |
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Definition
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What case established the right of
workers to strike? |
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Definition
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Who represented a philosophical movement that
emphasized self-reliance, truth in nature,
and personal imagination |
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It prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist
petitions to end slavery |
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Term
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She was a former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights |
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| Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? |
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Definition
Ms Stanton, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first
women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY |
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Term
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Definition
Ms. Mott helped develop the agenda for the
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 |
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What two sisters worked tirelessly to abolish salvery
despite having a father who was a slaveholder? |
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Definition
Sarah and Angelina Grimke |
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Who designed a new style of clothing for women
to improve comfort and health? |
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Definition
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A former slave, who chose a new name for herself when
she began traveling around the country to speak
out against slavery |
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Definition
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What term means "a setting free"?
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This man was one of the first white Americans
to demand the immediate freeing of slaves |
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Definition
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Term
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A FREE African American who took the extreme position of encouraging slaves to fight for freedom rather than to wait for God or slave owners to end slavery. |
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Definition
She persuaded nine Southern states to establish
public hospitals for the mentally ill. |
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Term
Brook Farm was one of the most famous
efforts to establish a
utopian community
or
communist community |
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