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Urban popular culture was based on
the thousands of young rural people who flocked to the city in search of fortune and adventure
The Mormon practice of polygamy
was opposed by some within their church as well as non-Mormon Christians outside it
Emerson's ideas most closely resembled
Charles Grandison Finney's "moral free agency."
Margaret Fuller's greatest contribution to transcendental philosophy was her
belief that men and women were equally capable of transcendence
Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraged listeners and readers to seek transcendence to a higher reality because he wanted them to
celebrate individualism and energize the American spirit
Ideas that the Shakers supported include all of the following except
complex marriage
William Lloyd Garrison's insistence on broadening the abolitionist agenda split the organization by pushing out those who
did not support women's rights
Between 1836 and 1844, the federal government responded to abolition by
limiting the debate in Congress of antislavery petitions
Herman Melville came to the conclusion that extreme individualism led to
madness and death, through a lack of inner discipline and self-restraint
The most common response of white Americans to the abolition movement was
opposition to the movement
Free blacks in the North sought to encourage emancipation and race equality through all of the following except
the bribing of southern slaveholders