Give Me Liberty! Ch. 12

Between 1833 and 1840, about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?

100,000

Robert Owen's utopian society promoted this idea to allow workers to receive the full value of their labor.

Communitarianism

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on the __________.

Declaration of Independence

This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press.

Elijah P. Lovejoy

What was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early-nineteenth-century utopian communities?

Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.

In her 1845 work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, this writer sought to apply to women the transcendentalist idea that freedom meant a quest for personal development.

Margaret Fuller

This utopian community was created in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a son of a U.S. congressman.

Oneida

Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s.

Shakers

Why did Abby Kelly leave her infant?

She felt black mothers could not be with their babies as long as slavery was in practice, so she worked toward the goal of abolitionism for her child to be brought up in a "free" country.

The region of the United States that came to be known as the "burned-over district" as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was __________.

Upstate New York and northern Ohio

The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by __________.

William Lloyd Garrison

The American Colonization Society called for __________.

a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States

Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society wished both to __________.

abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa

The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called __________.

abolitionism

At Oneida, founded in 1848: __________.

any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book

The idea of "perfectionism" was the view that __________.

both individuals and society at large can be capable of indefinite improvement

The American Tract Society, the American Bible Society, and other groups flooded these areas with copies of the gospel and pamphlets promoting religious virtue.

eastern cities and the western frontier

The 1836 "gag rule" prohibited consideration of petitions calling for __________.

emancipation in the House of Representatives

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

founding of American Colonization Society; American Anti-Slavery Society founded; Uncle Tom's Cabin published

"Gentlemen of property and standing" were __________.

merchants with close commercial ties to the South

Dorothea Dix, a Massachusetts school teacher, was the leading proponent of __________.

more humane treatment of the insane

What was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and 1840s?

political party conventions

The greatest evil in American society at first appeared to attract the least attention from the reformers— __________.

slavery

Among the social reforms involved in the early to mid-1800s, all of the following were part of American society EXCEPT: __________.

the fashion of women wearing pants

According to Pauline Davis in 1853, to emancipate women from "bondage," __________.

women must go to work outside the home