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What was the village created by a utopian believer?

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New Harmony Indiana

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What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?

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Utopias

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What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?

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Second Great Awakin

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How did the 2nd

Great Awakening begin?

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Began with former camp meetings called revivals

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What does temperance mean?

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Drinking little or no alcohol,

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What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

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Gallaudet University

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What did Dorothea Dix do?

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Reformed care for the mentally ill

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What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson?

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Transcendentalists

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What did transcendentalists stress?

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The relationship between humans and nature and the human conscience

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What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

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Americas first internationally famous author with his story, The Lengend of Sleepy Hollow

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What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19
century?

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Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher

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Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

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Abolitionists

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Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete
emancipation of slaves?

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William Llyod Garrison

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Who was the most well known abolitionist?

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Fredrick Douglass

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How did he learn how to read and write?

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Taught himself

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What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?

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North Star

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What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?

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The injustice of slavery

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What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

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Help them purchase his freedom from original slave holder

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Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

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Sojourner Truth

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Where was she born?

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New York

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Why did she choose her new name?

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She said “I will walk in the light of God’s truth”

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What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?

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The Underground Railroad

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Who was the most famous conductor of that system?

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Harriet Tubman

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Where was the first women’s rights convention?

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Seneca Falls, New York

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What was the most controversial issue at this conference?

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Over women’s suffrage

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Constitution preamble

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“We the people”

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Declaration of

Independence Natural Rights.

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“We hold these Truths to be self-evident”

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Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?

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Susan B. Anthony

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What did the 19th Amendment do?

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Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state

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