Chapter 13 Flashcards

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The combination of widespread religious energy and fervent social idealism brought

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Major reforms and advances in human rights during the first half of the 19th century

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Christian activists assumed that the US had a

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God-mandated virtue to provide the world example of republican virtue

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Enlightenment rationalism stressed

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Humankind’s inherit goodness rather than its depravity and encouraged a belief in social progress and the promise of individual perfectibility

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French revolution increased

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Deism

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Buy the use of reason deists could

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Grasp the natural laws governing the universe

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Unitarianism is

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The belief that emphasized the oneness and benevolence of a loving God, humankind, and the primacy over religious creeds and organized churches

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Unitarians believed Jesus was not

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Divine

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Universalism was

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Founded by John Murray and focuses on the salvation of people, not just a selected few

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Anglicanism was on the

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Demise

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What sparked the Second Great Awakening?

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Fears of secularism

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Timothy Dwight helped

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Spark the Second Great Awakening

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What Protestant denominations sparked after SGA?

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Baptists and Methodists

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What was the main message of SGA?

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Salvation is available to everyone

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SGA in the frontier had two religious phenomena

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The backwoods circuit-riding teacher and the camp meeting

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Women especially flocked to

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These events

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Presbyterianism was entrenched among

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The Scots-Irish

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The Baptists embraced

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A simplicity of doctrine and organization that appealed especially to the rural people

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Baptists theology was grounded in the

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Infallibility of the Bible and the recognition of human depravity

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The Methodists shared with the Baptists that

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The belief that everyone could gain an act of free will, established a much more centralized church structrue

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Methodists developed

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The traveling minister on horseback

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The largest camp meetings tended to be

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Ecumenical affairs

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Dwelling in camp meetings distorts an activity

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That offered a redemptive social outlet to isolated rural folk

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Evangelical ministers repeatedly applauded the

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Spiritual energies of women and affirmed their right to give public witness to the faith

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The energies of the revivals helped spread a more

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Democratic faith among people

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Finney wrestled with the question of

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What role can the individual play in earning salvation

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Finney’s answer

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The sinner must choose salvation by embracing the promises of Jesud

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Finney compared bis theatrical methods with those of campaigning

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Politicians who used advertising and showmanship to attract attention

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Finney organized social reform groups that

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Wanted to reform social ills: including alcoholism and slavery

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How was the book of mormon discovered?

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Reported an angel named Moroni led him to a hillside near his father’s farm and unearthed golden tablets

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What did Mormons believe?

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No hell, rejected all other dominations, and the Second coming was imminent

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In result to the persecution of Mormons,

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Moved to Commerce, Illinois

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By the end of 1848, the Mormons had developed

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An efficient irrigation system and brought greening to the desert

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Immanuel Kant

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Gave the transatlantic Romantic movement a summary definition in the title of his Critique of Pure Reason. Emphasized the limits of science and reason

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Transcendentalism was a reaction against

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Calvinist Orthodoxy and the corpse cold rationalism of Unitarianism

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What Was the truest piety

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A pure form of personal spirituality, which had been corrupted by religion

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Harmony with

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Nature. Realize divine potential in God’s teachers

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Emerson was determined to

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Transcend the limitations of inherited conventions and rationalism in order to penetrate the inner recesses of the self

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Thoreau displayed a sense of uncompromising

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Integrity, outdoor vigor, and prickly individuality

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Thoreau did not live life as a hermit, as he

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Often welcomed guests and came to them for dinner

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Thoreau and the other transcendentalism taught a powerful lesson:

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People mist follow their conscience

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Transcendentalists portrayed the movement as

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A profound expression of moral idealism, critics dismissed it as egotism

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in the 1840 census,

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78% of the population could read and write, and 91% of the white population could read and white

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Most children were taught to read

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In church or in private dame schools

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The Workingmen’s party of Philly argued that education

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Would improve manners and at the same time reduce crime rate

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Horace Mann did what?

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Led the early drive for statewide school systems. He prompted the public school system as the way to achieve social stability and equal oppurtunity

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North Carolina led the way in

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State supported education

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South continued to reflect the

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Aristocratic pretensions. The south had more college students than other region, but smaller public schools

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However, conditions for public education was

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Seldom ideal.

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Boston English High School was the first free

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Public secondary school, set up mainly for those students who don’t plan on attending college

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By law in 1827, Mass. required

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A high school in every town over 500, and in towns over 4000 college preparatory course like Latin, Greek, and rhetoric

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The urge to eradicate evil had its roots in the widespread sense of

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Spiritual zeal and moral mission, which on turn drew upon the growing faith in human perfectibility promoted by both revivalists and Romantic idealsists

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The rise of an urban middle class offered affluent

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Women greater time to devote to social emotions

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The american society for the promotion of temperance, which

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Organized lectures, press campaigns, an essay contest, and the formation of local and state societies

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The absolutists of temperance

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Would brook no compromise with Demon Rum and carried the day with a resolution that liquor was evil and ought to prohibited by law

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Asylums arose

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To treat and cure social ills, a result of Romanticism

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What would the penitentiary do?

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Where the guilt experience penitence and underwent rehabilitation, not punishment

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The discipline offered at Auburn Penitentiary (isolation)

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Had a beneficial effect on the prisoners and saved money

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The insane were usually

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Confined at home with hired keepers or jails in almshouses

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Catherine Beecher did what?

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A leader in the education movement and founder of women’s schools in Connecticut and Ohio, and published A Treatise on Domestic Economy, prescribing the domestic sphere for women

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According to some, a middle class home gave women a

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Sphere of independence in which they might exercise a degree of initiative and leadership

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Who were the two moral reformers and advocates of women’s tights?

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Laucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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What did the Seneca Falls Convention emphasize

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A part in the Declaration of Independence called Declaration of Sentiments. All men and women are created equal

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Seneca Falls represented an

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Important first step

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Still, after women could control their own property, women were in

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Nursing or teaching

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Believing religious fervor to be a sign of inspiration from the Holy Ghost, Mother Ann Lee

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And her followers had strange fits in which they saw visions and prophesied. They had a dance, hence the name shakers

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Shaker doctrine held God to a dual personality:

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In christ the masculine side was manifested, and mother ann the feminist side

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Shakers farms were among the

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Leading sources of garden seed and medical herbs while their manufactured goods, were prized for their simple beauty

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What did John Humphrey Noyes believe in?

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That sexual intercourse can be practiced by all of the community

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Brook Farm grew out of the

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Transcendentalist movement

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Brook Farms’ residents would share

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The tasks of maintaining the buildings, tending the fields, and preparing the fields

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Utopian communities quickly ran out of

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Steam

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The communal social experiments, performed in relative isolation, had

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Little effect on the outside world, where reformers wrestled worh the sins of the multitude

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The American Colonization Society proposed to

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Return freed slaves to Africa

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Why did some support this?

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It would bolster slavery by getting rid of free blacks

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Lloyd Garrison launched the

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Liberator

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During the 1830s Garrison became the nations’s most

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Fervent foe of slavery

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Who made up Garrison’s army?

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Evangelical Christians

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Who funded the abolitionist papers

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Arthur and Lewis Tappan

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The American Anti Slavery Society created a

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National network of newspapers, offices, chapters, and activists

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What did the society stressed

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Slaveholding is a heinous crime in the sight of God

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What did David Walker do?

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Published Walker’s Appeal, which denounced the hypocrisy of Christians in the slaveholding south

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Other reformers saw the American Society as

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Fundamentally sound and concentrated on purging it from slavery

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Sarah and Angelina Grimké provoked

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The Congregational Clergy of Mass. to chastise them for engaging in unfeminine activity

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Douglass started an abolitionist newspaper for blacks, the

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North Star

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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Grew into a vast system of secret routes and safe stopping places thag concealed runaways and spirited them to freedom,

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Harriet Tubman risked

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Everything to venture back to the South 19 times and helped three hundred slaves escape

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Sojourner Truth was able to speak about

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The evils of peculiar institution and the inequality of women

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Truth also tapped the

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Distinctive energies that women brought to reformist causes

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One shrewd strategy was to deluge

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Congress with petitions calling for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia

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The evangelical Christian Churches in the South

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Gradually turned pro slavery

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What dis JCC say that slavery was good?

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That Americans saved blacks from their unorganized civilizations and that white supremacy would be compromised

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Blacks also couldn’t work in

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Freedom

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Whigs were against

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Slavery