Gml 12 Tf

Front 1

As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.

Back 1

True

Front 2

The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor, intellectual work, and leisure.

Back 2

True

Front 3

According to Frederick Douglass, the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.

Back 3

False

Front 4

Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female orators in the country during her time.

Back 5

True

Front 6

Brook Farm was a vibrant, successful, and active community for more than a century.

Back 6

False

Front 7

In the absence of a strong national government, American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches, fraternal societies, and political clubs.

Back 7

True

Front 8

Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.

Back 8

True

Front 9

"Shakers" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.

Back 9

True

Front 10

The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth century American Revolutionaries, but instead, from nineteenth century abolitionists.

Back 10

True

Front 11

William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Back 11

False

Front 12

A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.

Back 12

False

Front 13

Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.

Back 13

False

Front 14

By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.

Back 14

False

Front 15

As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all, Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals, which he believed meant people who might follow any desire they had, from hedonism to zoology.

Back 15

False

Front 16

As they were committed to the separation of the sexes, Shaker communities admitted only men.

Back 16

False

Front 17

Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).

Back 17

False

Front 18

"Perfectionism" is the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could now be eradicated.

Back 18

True

Front 19

As a group, Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.

Back 19

False

Front 20

Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.

Back 20

False

Front 21

Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.

Back 21

True

Front 22

More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.

Back 22

False

Front 23

Overall, the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.

Back 23

False

Front 24

The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by Lucretia Mott.

Back 24

False

Front 25

The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners, including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.

Back 25

True

Front 26

Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.

Back 26

False

Front 27

Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.

Back 27

False

Front 28

Though women could not vote in the early nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.

Back 28

True

Front 29

Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message, but few played an active role in spreading it.

Back 29

False

Front 30

American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues, such as alcoholism, crime, prison life, illiteracy, labor conditions, women’s rights, and slavery.

Back 30

True

Front 31

First and foremost, Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.

Back 31

False

Front 32

Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.

Back 32

False