Question 39 (1 point)Which statement about Nat Turner’s Rebellion is true?
Question 39 (1 point)Which statement about Nat Turner’s Rebellion is true?Question 39
options:
| Turner and his followers assaulted mostly men. | |
| Fewer than twenty whites were killed during the rebellion. | |
| Turner escaped capture. | |
| Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion. | |
| It occurred in Georgia. |
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Question 40 (1 point)
What was most significant about Theodore Weld’s argument concerning the sinfulness of slavery?
Question 40 options:
| It convinced some that slavery needed to be abolished immediately. | |
| Ministers could preach that slavery was the devil’s work. | |
| It contradicted passages in the Bible that seemed to be proslavery. | |
| This allowed ministers like William Lloyd Garrison to take on a leadership role. | |
| It led to Frederick Douglass gaining his freedom. |
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Question 41 (1 point)
Which American Revolution ideology is best encapsulated in the Declaration of Sentiments?
Question 41 options:
| “Don’t tread on me.” | |
| “These are the times that try men’s souls.” | |
| “Give me Liberty or give me death.” | |
| “No taxation without representation.” | |
| “One if by land, and two if by sea.” |
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Question 42 (1 point)
How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?
Question 42 options:
| They did not even try, because they had no intention of enhancing personal freedom. | |
| They claimed that genuine liberty meant allowing others to eliminate those problems that might threaten that liberty. | |
| They argued that too many people were “slaves” to various sins and that freeing them from this enslavement would enable them to compete economically. | |
| They contended that self-discipline was so rare, someone had to step in and make sure that Americans could enjoy the fruits of their labor. | |
| They felt that eliminating temptations would lead to the natural liberty that Protestants had long considered crucial to maintaining a good society. |
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Question 43 (1 point)
By 1840, the temperance movement in the United States had:
Question 43 options:
| united Americans of all classes and religions in a “war” against alcohol. | |
| virtually disappeared. | |
| convinced Congress to pass a national prohibition law. | |
| made no measurable impact on Americans’ drinking habits. | |
| encouraged a substantial decrease in the consumption of alcohol. |
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Question 44 (1 point)
The American Tract Society was focused on:
Question 44 options:
| slavery. | |
| drinking. | |
| feminism. | |
| suffrage. | |
| religion. |
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Question 45 (1 point)
How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?
Question 45 options:
| Actually, the two movements were quite similar in every way; the later one was simply more well-known because more people were literate by the 1830s. | |
| The later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately. | |
| Earlier opponents of slavery had called for immediate emancipation, but the later group devised a plan for gradual emancipation that won broader support. | |
| The later movement banned participation by African-Americans, because they feared that their involvement would cause a backlash. | |
| The movement of the 1830s introduced the idea of colonizing freed slaves outside the United States, which proved immensely popular with southern whites. |
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Question 46 (1 point)
A young minister converted by the evangelical preacher Charles G. Finney, __________ helped to create a mass constituency for abolitionism by training speakers and publishing pamphlets.
Question 46 options:
| David Walker | |
| Theodore Weld | |
| Abby Kelley | |
| Lewis Tappan | |
| Lydia Maria Child |
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Question 47 (1 point)
Abolitionists challenged stereotypes about African-Americans by:
Question 47 options:
| countering the pseudoscientific claim that they formed a separate species. | |
| presenting the compositions of Henry Highland Garnet to disprove the belief that African culture was inferior because it produced no classical music composers. | |
| pointing to Haiti, the scene of the famous slave revolts of the 1790s and 1800s, as a model of civilization. | |
| making January 1, the anniversary of the end of the international slave trade, a holiday throughout the North until the end of the Civil War. | |
| nominating Frederick Douglass for president in 1852 and winning him Vermont’s electoral votes. |
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Question 48 (1 point)
Freedom’s Journal:
Question 48 options:
| was the autobiography of Joseph Taper, a fugitive slave. | |
| published Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. | |
| was the newspaper of the Owenite community at New Harmony. | |
| was established by Abby Kelley. | |
| was the first black-run newspaper in the United States. |
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Question 49 (1 point)
Frederick Douglass wrote, “When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, __________ will occupy a large space in its pages.”
Question 49 options:
| newspaper editors | |
| black abolitionists | |
| freed slaves | |
| white abolitionists | |
| women |
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Question 50 (1 point)
All of the following are true of Margaret Fuller EXCEPT:
Question 50 options:
| she was the first feminist leader educated at a major college. | |
| her father was a member of Congress. | |
| she was the first female literary editor of the New York Tribune. | |
| she was a leading transcendentalist. | |
| she believed marrying an American would mean subordinating herself to male dictation. |