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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