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100
Who led a group practicing transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
100
Who wrote/said, "To drive carriages, carry a market basket after the boss, and brush his boots was as high as a colored man would rise.”
William J. Brown
100
What did the slaves call Nat Turner?
Prophet
100
a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue
gag rule
100
Where were most of the slaves born?
America
200
Who was a famous Unitarian leader who asserted that the purpose of Christianity was "the perfection of human nature, the elevation of men into nobler beings."?
William Ellery Channing
200
Who said, “I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them.” AND "The Liberator sent a thrill of joy through my soul, such as I had never felt before.”
Frederick Douglass
200
Who was responsible for the crucial defeat of the confederate army at Fort Donelson?
Floyd (Virginia's governer)
200
an emotional meeting designed to awaken religious faith through impassioned preaching and prayer
revival
200
Who made the newspaper "The North Star"?
Frederick Douglass
300
Who urged people to not obey laws that they considered unjust?
Henry David Thoreau
300
Who wrote/said, “The man who would not fight...ought to be kept with all of his children or family, in slavery, or in chains, to be butchered by his cruel enemies.”
David Walker
300
What year was William Lloyd Garrison born in? OR What year did William's dad desert his family?
1805/1808
300
the call to outlaw slavery
abolition
300
When a person became a Shaker, he or she vowed not to do what?
Not to marry or have children
400
Who stressed that people need to be responsible for their own salvation?
Charles G. Finney
400
Who said, “While society in the United States gives the example of the most extended liberty, the prisons of the same country offer the spectacle of the most complete despotism [rigid and severe control].”
Alexis de Tocqueville
400
It is believed that Charles G. Finney converted around how many people to revivalism?
500,000
400
19th-century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for social and emotional improvement
Second Greatest Awakening
400
Why didn't Frederick Douglass's owner want him to learn how to read?
Because reading "would forever unfit him to be a slave."
500
Who inspired his congregation to strengthen its faith as well as fight against slavery?
Richard Allen
500
He said, “if we do not prepare children to become good citizens, . . . if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, then our republic must go down to destruction, as others have gone before it.”
Horace Mann
500
Name the four places where Unitarianism was first developed.
Poland, Transylvania, England, and America.
500
period before the Civil War
antebellum
500
Where did slaves work over the years?
In mines or on ships
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