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  This Transcendentalist writer placed a special emphasis on the role of nature as a gateway to greater individualism.

• Robert Owen

•    Stephen Douglas

•    Henry David Thoreau

•   William Lloyd Garrison

  Which new church was considered the most successful religious utopian community, despite being met with hostility after it was founded in the 1830s?

•    Mormonism

•    Pentecostalism

•    Unitarianism

•   Millenialism

    Carrie is a married woman living near Cleveland, Ohio in the 19^th century.  Her husband regularly visits the local tavern after a hard day at work, staying late into the evening.  He often comes home upset and has a difficult time getting to work the next morning.  Carrie is concerned that he will lose his job as a result. Based on this information, Carrie would be most likely to support which 19^th century reform movement?

•    Abolition

•   Temperance

• States’ Rights

•   Public Education

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  Which abolitionist is INCORRECTLY paired?

•     William Lloyd Garrison—The Liberator

• Harriet Tubman—The Underground Railroad

•     Frederick Douglass—Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

• Sojourner Truth—“Ain’t I A Woman”

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   The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 revealed that:

•   The sectional differences over slavery had become too violent to remain a single nation.

•   A political solution to sectional differences might still be possible.

•   The nation was not as divided as the 1850s suggested.

•   Americans no longer had any faith in the democratic election process.

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    Which of these was NOT part of the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857?

•    Dred Scott  should remain a slave despite having lived in free territory

•   Black men and women could never become citizens with full equality

•   Congress had no authority to stop or limit the spread of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.

•    Popular sovereignty was the appropriate legal mechanism for dealing with slavery in the new territories.

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   The Kansas-Nebraska Act had enraged many people who opposed the extension of slavery because it favored popular sovereignty and repealed the:

•    LeCompton Constitution

•    Missouri Compromise

• Freeport Doctrine

•    Fugitive Slave Act

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    Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

•   Harriet Tubman

•   Frederick Douglass

•    Harriet Beecher Stowe

•     Catherine Beecher Stowe

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    The law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 that generated emotional opposition in the North was the:

• Admission of Kansas as a free state.

•    Establishing the modern border of Oregon.

• Outlawing the slave trade in Missouri

•    Passing a series of new fugitive slave laws.

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     Which of the following was a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

•   Slavery in New Mexico and Utah would be decided on the basis of popular sovereignty

•     Slavery would allowed in the District of Columbia, but not the slave trade

•    Free states would be forced to return slaves who escaped to those states

• All of the above

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