APUSH Chapter 12: Give Me Liberty

abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:

countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species

Horace Mann believed that public schools would do all of the following EXCEPT:

help eliminate racial discrimination

the role of African- Americans in the abolitionist movement

included helping to finance William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper

Although it lasted only a few years, the New Harmony community:

influenced education reformers and women's rights advocates

what was the most significant about Theodore Weld's argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery

it convinced some that slavery needed to be abolished immediately

How did the Second Great Awakening influence Americans society?

it inspired some to combat the sins of society, such as alcoholism

what was the greatest accomplishment of the abolitionists by 1840

making slavery a prominent topic of conversation

the gag rule

prevented congress from hearing antislavery petitions

The colonization of freed U.S. slaves to Africa:

prompted the adamant opposition of most free African- Americans

Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans:

saw property ownership as key to economic independence, but nearly all the Utopian communities insisted that members give up their property

the reform communities established in the years before the Civil War

set out to reorganize society on a cooperative basis

how did Margaret Fuller demonstrate that women could be leaders

she edited the New York Tributes

In regard to utopian communities, how do spiritually oriented groups compare to societies with a worldly orientation?

spiritual groups usually lasted for longer time periods

William Lloyd Garrison

suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery.

the proliferation of new institutions such as poorhouse and asylums for the insane during the antebellum era demonstrated the

tensions between liberation and control in the era's reform movements

what did reformers comonly believe about prisons and asylums

that they could rehabilitate individuals and then release them back into society

the Seneca Falls convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after

the Declaration of Independence

How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?

the later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled in and needed to be destroyed immediately

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

they argued that too many people were "slaves" to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to complete economically

how did abolitionists link themselves to the nation's Revolutionary heritage

they seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery

According to Alexis de Tocqueville, what were the most important institutions for organizing Americans?

voluntary associations

Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America:

was fundamentally a white society

the first apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal freedom and equality to the status of women

were the Grimke sisters

Frederick Douglass wrote "When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, ______ will occupy a large space in its pages"

women

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

women needed to be treated as equals

how did Robert Owen first establish himself

He founded a model factory village in Scotland.

by saying all humans are "moral beings," Angelina Grimke was in a way extending what concept

John Locke's idea that all men had natural lights

who in congress worked tirelessly to end the gag rule?

John Quincy Adams

which book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What would John Winthrop most likely criticize about antebellum America?

Utopian societies promoting free love

the organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over:

a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery

in addition to trying to end slavery abolitionists from 1830 to 1860 pioneered what

a modern way of raising funds through fairs and bazaars

the arguments in this passage best represents the ideas of

antebellum reformers

William Lloyd Garrison argued in thoughts on African Colonization that

blacks were not "strangers" in America to be shipped abroad, but should be recognized as a permanent part of American society

the ideas articulated by child are most similar to those in the antebellum era who

championed social and individual freedoms

Dorothea Dix voted much time to the crusade for the

construction of humane mental hospitals for the insane

according to Catharine Beecher, how were women supposed to influence people an issue

demonstrate peace and love

Abby Kelley

demonstrated the interconnectedness of nineteenth-century reform movements.

in her writing, child chides slave owners

economic greed and religous hypocrisy

by 1840, the temperance movements in the United States had

encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol