Exam 12: Antebellum Reform

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Democrats saw government as a tool of progress.

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The leading advocate of humane treatment of the insane was

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By 1860, the legislatures of_____________ of the 33 states had established state-run insane asylums.

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Horace Mann was most interested in the establishment of_____________.

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By the 1830s, in the northern states

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Discuss American views on slavery and racial differences along with the rise of abolitionism in the years from 1820 to 1840.

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The American Anti-Slavery Society demanded gradual emancipation of slaves.

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The abolitionist newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison was The North Star.

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Where Democrats proposed abolishing banks, Whigs defended the system of private banks that -- as authorized by state governments -- had the right to issue currency but had_____________ to protect directors and stockholders from bank-incurred debts.

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The only state to imitate Pennsylvania's prison system was_____________.

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Hierarchy based on sex was_____________ questioned in public before 1830.

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The market revolution seemed to increase the number of those dependent upon the state.

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The New York Magdalen Society was formed by_____________ in 1828.

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Examine the development of the Women's Rights Movement in post-1820 America.

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The British outlawed the Atlantic slave trade in_____________.

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The_____________ Temperance Society was primarily a working-class organization opposed to the abuse of alcohol.

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Describe the differences between the two major political parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, between 1820 and 1840.

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Many of the reforms urged by Whig evangelicals had to do with domestic and personal life rather than with politics.

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The leader of the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue  that led to that nation's independence in 1804 was

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The Whig party supported all of the following except

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