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The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to -
ban the spread of slavery to new territories
decrease the consumption of alcohol
gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons
create a self-sufficient Utopian society
Which of these most contributed to the movement represented by this newspaper?
Protestant preachers had denounced the institution of slavery as a sin.
African-born slaves rebelled and overcame their owners on several Southern plantations.
The liberation of the Africans on the ship Amistad revealed the evils of the slave trade.
Economic changes made slavery less profitable for Southern slave-owners.
Which sign would most likely have been carried by an abolitionist?
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Which of these was an impact of the religious movement shown above known as the Second Great Awakening?
Reformers challenged slavery, drunkenness and other social problems.
More Americans felt able to resist the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament.
Several states established their own state religions.
Rural areas in the South introduced better forms of lighting.
Helped lead in prison reform
and treatment for mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
Which reformer dedicated his/her efforts to implementing this strategy for improving society?
Horace Mann
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Susan B. Anthony
What was the impact of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)?
It led to the formation of the Republican Party.
It publicized the need for an expansion of women’s rights.
It promoted the concept of Manifest Destiny.
It revealed the poor treatment of Southern slaves.
Which abolitionists was the author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Sojourner Truth
Who was a leader of Women's rights?
Susan B. Anthony
Frederick Douglass
Horace Mann
Dorathea Dix
Who was responsible for reforming the treatment of prisoners and asylum patients?
Susan B. Anthony
Horace Mann
Dorathea Dix
Frances Willard
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