History-120 chapter-12
The Liberty Party was created in 1840 and nominated James G. Birney as its candidate for president. Identify the statements that describe Birney and the Liberty Party.
The creation of the Liberty Party was partly due to some abolitionists' dislike of women playing prominent roles in politics.
The outlook called "perfectionism" held that even though individuals are flawed and commit sin, they are able to improve their lives through good choices in order to become better people.
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On the map of utopian communities in the mid-nineteenth century, identify the state in which both the community of Oneida and the very first Shaker community were established.
New York
The image below comes from a nineteenth-century book for children aimed to teach the righteousness of the abolitionists' cause. Drag each description below to the rhyming verse in the image it best describes.
A: A is an Abolitionist A man who wants to free The wretched slave-and give to all An equal liberty. This verse relates the abolitionist cause to the notion of liberty for every citizen, black and white B: is the Cotton-field, to which This injured brother's driven, When, as the while man's slave, he toils From early morn till even. This verse creates empathy for slave's day-to-day life and work. C: This verse places the abolitionist's cause in religious context. This verse places the abolitionist's cause in religious context. D: This verse illustrates a common enemy for slaves and abolitionists. This verse illustrates a commonenemy for slaves and abolitionists.
Match each of the following individuals to her contribution to the abolitionist cause.
Abby Kelly: -A Quaker and prolific abolitionist speaker, this individual spoke almost daily for two decades on "the holy cause of human rights." Harriet Beecher Stowe: -This individual authored the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most widely read of all antislavery writings during this period. Angelina Grimké: -Growing up the daughter of a South Carolina slaveholder, this individual was among the first to apply the abolitionist doctrine of universal equality to the status of women.
Around 100 reform communities were established in the decades before the Civil War. Match each statement to the community it correctly describes.
Brook Farm: -In this Massachusetts community, transcendentalists sought to prove that manual and intellectual labor could coexist. New Harmony: -This community lasted only a few years, but was highly influential to the labor movement, educational reformers, and women's rights advocates. The Shakers: -Members of this community cultivated "virgin purity" and believed that the sexes were spiritually equal because God had a dual, male-female personality. Oneida: -Members of this community believed in "complex marriage," or that all of the men and women in the community were united as a "holy family" of equals.
The 1848 Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention, written mainly by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is best known as the beginning of the seventy-year struggle for women's suffrage. In addition to demanding the right to vote, however, Stanton went on to detail numerous forms of inequality facing women. In the excerpt below, identify the passage(s) where Stanton specifically denounces the loss of rights of women who choose to marry.
In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master—the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. . . . He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.
In 1836, abolitionists began to flood Washington with petitions calling for emancipation in the nation's capital. Complete the passage about the events that occurred next.
The House of Representatives adopted a gag rule prohibiting discussion of emancipation petitions. The rule was seen by many northerners as an unconstitutional affront to freedom because it restricted free speech within Congress about an issue important to citizens. The rule was appealed in 1844 thanks largely to the support of former president John Quincy Adams.
Complete the passage about a prominent utopian community during the nineteenth century.
The Shakers were the most successful of the religious "utopian" communities. Though they rejected accumulation of private property, they were able to support their community through the sale of furniture, vegetable and flower seeds, and commercially bred cattle.
The American Anti-Slavery Society took advantage of the rapid development of print technology and the expansion of literacy due to common school education to successfully spread its message.
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Analyze the image below. What argument did Josiah C. Nott and George R. Gliddon make in their book Types of Mankind?
blacks formed a separate species that fell midway between whites and chimpanzees
Abolitionists pioneered the use of modern methods and technology to gain support and finance their cause. Which of the following are examples of their revolutionary approaches to fighting slavery?
correct: -Abolitionists seized upon the recently developed steam printing press to produce millions of copies of pamphlets, newspapers, petitions, novels, and broadsides. -They developed charity fairs or "bazaars," where women sold clothing and embroidery, luxury goods, and works of art to raise funds.
Analyze the photograph and painting below, both of which depict abolitionist gatherings in the 1840s or 1850s. What do these images reveal about the abolitionist movement by the 1850s?
correct: -Although free society was deeply segregated, blacks and whites worked together to further the abolitionist cause. -Both men and women engaged in abolitionist efforts.
Read the selection below from Angelina Grimké, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837). Since I engaged in the investigation of the rights of the slave, I have necessarily been led to a better understanding of my own; for I have found the Anti-Slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated, and better understood and taught, than in any other [reform] enterprise. ... Here we are led to examine why human beings have any rights. It is because they are moral beings. ... Now it naturally occurred to me, that if rights were founded in moral being, then the circumstance of sex could not give to man higher rights and responsibilities, than to woman. ...When I look at human beings as moral beings, all distinction in sex sinks to insignificance and nothingness; for I believe it regulates rights and responsibilities no more than the color of the skin or the eyes. My doctrine, then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. ... How does Grimké explain that the discussion of wrongs of slavery opened the way for the discussion of other rights?
correct: -By studying slavery, she realized women lacked basic freedoms as well.
Identify the statements that are true about the American Colonization Society, both its creation and its impact.
correct: -Its goal was the resettlement of black Americans in Africa after gradual emancipation. -The Colonization Society inspired free black persons to fight for their rights as Americans.
Identify the statements that describe the Oneida community.
correct: -The founder, John Humphrey Noyes, ruled like a dictator over the community. -Members wanted to create a "holy family" of equals by doing away with private property and traditional marriage.
How have religious reformers made a difference in American society?
correct: -They amplified the debate for abolition, using Christian principles to attack slavery. -They spearheaded the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. -They created the Social Gospel that sought to improve the lives of working people and immigrants.
In 1836, when abolitionists began to flood Washington with petitions calling for emancipation in the nation's capital, the House of Representatives adopted the gag rule, which prohibited southern congressmen from speaking out against the petitions.
false
Like abolitionism, temperance, and other reforms, feminism was an international movement, as it reinforced the idea that women should remain in the home, which resonated in industrial Europe.
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