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What president greatly disliked the Indians?
Andrew Jackson
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What document that advocated for feminism closely resembled the Declaration of Independence? Where and when was it written?
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions; it was written in 1848 at the womens' rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY.
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What Supreme Court case ruled that states didn't need to aid in enforcing the 1793 law that required fugitive slaves to return to their owners?
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
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Founded the newspaper "The Liberator," in 1831 to express his anti-slavery sentiments. He demanded immediate abolition of slavery, and formed the American Antislavery Society.
William Lloyd Garrison
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What concept did the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions reject?
It rejected the idea that men and women should have separate "spheres" in society.
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What was the main principle behind relocation?
To get tribes out of the way of white civilization.
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What was a new set of problems for women in the 1830s and 1840s?
Women were now expected to be domestic and devote their time to their homes and leave income-producing to the husbands.
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What was the ACS? (American Colonization Society)
A group of white Virginians who worked for slaves' rights without challenging property rights; it was formed in 1817.
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This person wrote one of the most powerful documents of abolitionist propaganda in 1852: "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who was Sojourner Truth?
She was a freed black who emerged from a New York cult as a powerful spokeswoman for the abolition of slavery.
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What was a social purpose of the reservations?
The Indians would become civilized and eventually assimilate.
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What were the majority of feminists?
Quakers
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Why did abolitionism appeal to slaves in the North?
They lived in poverty and oppression worse than slaves in the South
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Who were the two sisters who were active abolitionists and argued that men and women were created equal?
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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What happened to the abolitionist headquarters, "Temple of Liberty" in 1834?
It was burned down by a mob in Philadelphia and led to a bloody race riot.
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What economic purpose did the reservations serve?
The Indians would be moved out of valuable land for the settlers.
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What was the most prominent demand for womens' rights activists?
The right to vote - suffrage.
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What group wanted to keep slavery out of the territories, some cared for the slaves, others wanted to keep the West for the whites.
Free-soilers
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Considered to be one of the greatest African-American abolitionists, and was also an electrifying orator. He was a freed slave and demanded equality for African Americans.
Frederick Douglass, who wrote "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
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Who wrote a letter in 1833 to William Garrison stating that slavery was a sin and that men are free moral agents?
Theodore Dwight Weld, a prominent abolitionist and husband of Angelina Grimke.