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Grade 7 Unit 5 Pre/Post Test
Social Studies Grade 7 Unit 5
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Social Studies
7th Grade
03/28/2014

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Trancendentalist thinkers
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margeret Fuller and Henry David Thoreau
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Utopian Communities
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attempts to form perfect societies
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self reliance
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Focus of the writings of trancendentalist thinkers
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individualism and democracy
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The values Walt Whitmans poetry expressed
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Second Great Awakening
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Period of Christian renewal that began in the northeastern Unites States
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Temperance movement
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reform effort to urge people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor
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Dorthea Dix
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spoke of the horrid conditions of prisions and inspired the building of sperate facilities for the mentally ill
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common school movement
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believed that all children learn in the same place regardless of their backgrounds
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Horace Mann
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contributed to the education reform movement and extended the length of the school year
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Thomas Gallaudet
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free American schools for the deaf and those with hearing impairments
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womens rights and slavery
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Reform movements during the Antebellum period were directed at which of the following
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19th amendment
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gave women right to vote
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Anti Slavery Society
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free slaves immediately and obtain racial equality
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Harriet Tubman
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one of the major conductors of the underground railroad
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Seneca falls convention
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started women's rights movement
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Abolitionist Movement
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reform movement that inspired the women's rights movement
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slaves
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The constitutions guarantee preventing cruel and unusual punishment did apply to
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due process of law
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a citizen may not lose their life, liberty or property
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underground railroad
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transporting runaway slaves to safe places in the North
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abolitionist
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a complete end to slavery in the United States was needed
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social reformers
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gave speeches to promote their cause
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quakers
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first to speak out among slavery
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susan b anthony
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outspoken advocate for equal pay for men and women
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