Question 1

When was the Antebellum Era?

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before the Civil War

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during the Revolutionary War

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after the Civil War

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early colonial times

Question 2

Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to which of the following reforms:

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temperance

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peace

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education and rehabilitation

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women's rights

Question 3

As women in various reform movements confronted the problems they faced in a male- dominated society, they responded by:

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setting in motion the first important feminist movement

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withdrawing from the movements.

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focusing their attention on religious matters.

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accepting the notion that men and women were assigned separate "spheres" in society.

Question 4

The "burned-over district" was a region of upstate New York prone to religious revivals because of:

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the disorientation of residents caused by profound social and economic changes.

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the location there of the headquarters for the Mormon Church.

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efficient transportation provided by the Erie Canal for traveling evangelists

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the significant number of utopian communities in the vicinity.

Question 5

The most noted black abolitionist of the day was:

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Frederick Douglass.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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William Lloyd Garrison.

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Joseph Smith.

Question 6

Personal liberty laws

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forbade state officials to assist in the capture and return of runaways.

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outlawed the interstate slave trade.

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freed slaves who escaped to states in the Old Northwest.

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allowed masters to claim slaves who ran away to the North.

Question 7

The snakes in the cartoon are ment to portray which of the following?

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northerners willing to negotiate an end to the war

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British aiding the Confederacy

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southerners willing to secede

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northern Republicans

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