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TRUE or FALSE:
Before 1815, schools were primarily sponsored by private institutions |
True
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What was the Lancastrian system?
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An educational system in which older students tutored younger ones. The New York Free School experimented with this method for a time.
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Which 19th- century groups formed cooperative communities to improve the life of the common man against industrialism?
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The Utopians
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Who founded the New Harmony, Indiana, commune?
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Robert Owen
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Why did Owen's Utopian community fail?
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He encountered resistance from neighboring because he attacked religion, marriage, and the institution of property.
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Who established the Nashoba Community in Memphis Tennessee?
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Robert Owen
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How was the Nashoba Community different from the other Utopian communities of the 19th century?
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It was a communal haven for freed slaves
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Why did Alexis Tocqueville travel to the United States to study the American prison system?
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It was considered one of the most innovative in the world.
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What was the name of the earliest commune in America?
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Brook Farm, Massachusetts
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What Utopian community was based on free love and open marriage?
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Oneida Community, New York
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What 3 practices did Shakers follow?
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1) Celibacy
2) Sexual Equality 3) Social Discipline |
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The __________ _________ in Iowa was a socialist experiment, with rigidly ordered society.
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Amana Community
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What group was the most successful of the communal experiments of the 19th century?
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The Mormons
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Who was Horace Mann?
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The first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education
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Who was Dorothea Dix?
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A reformer who advocated for more humane treatment for the mentally incompetent in mental asylums.
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What was the main purpose of the early antislavery movement?
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The movement advocated the purchase and colonization of slaves
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During the mid to late 19th century, what developments indicated that the American public was becoming more educated?
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A proliferation of newspapers and magazines and the springing up of new colleges.
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What were "booster colleges"?
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Colleges that sprang up in every new community as population moved west
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What were informal educational "lyceums"?
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Popular areas where the public could gather for cultural enrichment
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What issues did the women's rights movement of the 1830s and 1840s focus upon?
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Social and legal discrimination
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Where and when did the first feminist meeting take place?
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Seneca Falls, New York, 1848
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Why did the feminist movement suffer because of its link with the abolitionists?
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Feminism was considered of secondary importance to the abolitionist cause.
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What Sojourner Truth?
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A well-known figure on the speakers' circuit who spoke against social and legal discrimination against women.
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What was the Underground Railroad?
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A system by which northern abolitionists smuggled escaped slaves to permanent freedom in Canada.
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
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One of the main operators of the Underground Railroad, leading over 300 of her friends and family to freedom after she had escaped slavery.
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What kind of educational opportunities existed for southern women before the Civil War?
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Education for southern women was rare; little there was centered on the "domestic arts."
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Who were Jane Addams and Washington Gladden?
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Advocates of the "social gospel"
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What was the purpose of the Tuskegee Institute?
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To provide teaching and vocational education for African Americans
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Who became president of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881?
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Booker T. Washington
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Why did feminism become stronger during the 1870s and 1880s?
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Because millions of women worked outside the home and were active in social reform movements
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What educational innovation did Johns Hopkins University pioneer in the 1880s?
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Graduate seminars
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What four women's colleges were established in the 1880s?
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1. Bryn Mawr
2. Vassar 3. Wellesley 4. Mount Holyoke |
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Who was Jacob Coxey?
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A Populist businessman who led a march of unemployed workers to Washington to petition for a government work relief work program
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What was the relationship between the Depression of 1893 and the formation of the Anti-Saloon League?
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High unemployment caused by the depression led to increased drunkenness by male workers, which in turn led women to support and anti-saloon movement.
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What educational development grew out of the Chautauqua Movement?
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Home study courses
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Who wrote "How the Other Half Lives"?
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Jacob Riis
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What did the author of "How the Other Half Lives" criticize?
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Riis criticized the poverty, illness, crime, and despair of New York's slums
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What three kinds of political reforms took place at the state level during the early 1900s?
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1) Primary elections
2) Initiative and referendum 3) The rooting out of political machines |
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Who was Robert La Follette?
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A leading reformer in Wisconsin during the early 1900s
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What did the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People advocate?
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An end to racial segregation
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Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
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An African American intellectual militant who founded the Niagara Movement
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What did the Niagara Movement want the federal government to do?
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Pass laws to protect racial equality and full rights of citizenship for African Americans
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Who were the muckrakers?
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The muckrakers were investigative journalists and authors who favored progressive political, economic, and social reforms in the early 1900s
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What were some popular muckraking magazines of the early 1900s?
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McClure's, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, and Everybody's
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