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What was the village created by a utopian believer

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New harmony

1
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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?

A

Second Great Awakening

3
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How did the 2nd

Great Awakening begin?

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revivals

4
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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

6
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What did Dorothea Dix do?

A

Reformed care for the mentally ill

7
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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?

A

The relationship between humans and nature

9
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What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

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Famous author who wrote the legend of sleepy hollow

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

A

Uncle toms cabin

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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 Lloyd Garrison

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Who was the most well known abolitionist?

A

Fredrick Douglas

15
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How did he learn how to read and write?

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He 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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Injustice of slavery

18
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What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

A

Purchased his freedom from original slave owner

19
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Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

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Sojourner Truth

20
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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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It’s Gods 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?

A

Harriet Tubman

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Where was the first women’s rights convention?

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Seneca Falls, NY

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What was the most controversial issue at this conference?

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Over women’s suffrage

26
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Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights.

A

No

27
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Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?

A

Susan B Anthony

28
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What did the 19th

Amendment do?

A

Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state