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What time period began in 1790 and was marked by a renewed interest in relgiion

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The second great awkening

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Which of the following was Not something that marked the 1790 era

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A return to strict adherence to church doctrine

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Which was a utopian community founded during the reform era

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Brooke Farm

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What was the name of the textbook that served as the reading book during this era

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McGuffey’s

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Which term means that the slaves are set free without payment to their masters

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Emancipation

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Which type of slave had the best chance to eventually buy their freedom

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Urban Slave

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Where did Nat Turner’s Rebellion take place

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Virginia

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What the term antebellum refer to regarding the Civil War

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Before the war

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What was the idea that a woman should remain in the home after marriage to take care of it and raise the children

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The cult of domesticity

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Why did women support the Temperance Movement

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It allowed them to be less susceptible to domestic violence

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Where was the women convention held that produced the document, the declaration of sentiments

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Seneca Falls, NY

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He wrote the appeal to the colored citizens of the world

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David Walker

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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Founded troy femal seminary

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Emma wilard

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A leader of the women movements

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Leading preacher of the religious movement

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Charles Grandison Finney

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The author of civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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The first women to graduate from a medical school

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elizabeth blackwell

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Editor of the norths star

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Frederick Douglas

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HE was the author of Self Reliance

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Ralph Waldo emerson

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HE was a clergymen that led the temperance movement

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Lyman Beecher

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“He hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Led the reform of mental institutions and prisons

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Dorothea Dix

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Founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mary Lyon

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The author of walden
Henry David Therau
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The newspaper the liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
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A lady whore wore "pants"
Amelia Bloomer
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"I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them"
Frederick Douglas
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The first superintendent of Massachusetts public schools
Horace Mann
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Bough and sold goods rather than produce them in the homes and for their own use
Market Revolution
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An economic system in which the means of production are controlled by private individuals and business ands them to earn a profit
Capitlism
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which is not a means of production
New Inventions
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A person that risks their own money in business
Entrepenuer
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What is another term for Conestoga wagon
Prairie Schooner
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The formal name for the Morman Church is
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints
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What was the border of texas, according to the state of texas
The rio grande river
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The election of 1844
Dem- James k Polk | Whig- Henry Clay
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Mexico agreed to th Rio Grande as the border for Texas - ceded new mexico and california to usa - usa paid 15 mil for mexican cession - usa guranteed mexicans living in the eare: freedom of religon, protection of property, bilungual elections, and open borders
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President during the Mexican war
James K Polk
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Won the battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston
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Invented the steel plow
John Deere
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Invented the commercial sewing machine
Isaac Singer
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Led the mormons to salt lake
Brigham Young
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Man with a big knife
Jim Bowie
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Invented the mechanical reaper
Cyris McCormick
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Invented stronger rubber
Charles Goodyear
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Invented the telegraph
Samuel F.B Morse
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Founder of the Mormons
Joseph Smith
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Zachary Taylor
"Old rough and ready"
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Winfield Scott
"Old Fuss and feathers"
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Stephen Kearney
"The long marcher"
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Santa ana
"Leader of the mexican army"
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Davey Crockett
"Defender at the alamo"
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Which section of the US was the most industrialized prior to the civil war
North
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Which section of the US had the most miles of telegraph cable prior to the Civil War
North
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Which section of the Us depended on rivers for travel and trade prior to the Civil War
South
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Which section of the US had the larger population prior to the Civil War
North
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Which statement is most true describing the Wilmot Proviso
It was a rider attached to a military appropriations bill that slave slavery could not exist in any territory gained from mexico
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which was not part of the comprise of 1850
Texas received 10 mill to settle its border dispute with Arizona
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Which man broke up the compromise of 1850 into five serrate parts and was bel to have each part pass the congress
Stephen A Douglas
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What was the underground railroad
it was a series of stations from which runaway slaves move at night in their trip to freedom
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Which one of the following repealed the missouri compromsie
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What english colony had the Powhatan indians as their main rival
Virginia
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Which type of representation did the colonies say they had in parliament
Virtual
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Who did not ride out to warn the people in the countryside that the "Regulars are coming, the regulars are coming"
Joseph Warren
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Which one of the following was an action of the First Continenetal Congress
It recognized the minutemen encamped outside of Boston as the Continental Army
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He developed the sons of liberty
Samuel Adams
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"Give me liberty, or give me death"
Patrick Henry
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HE was chancellor of the Briish Enchequer
Charles Townshend
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He was the births officer in charge at the boston massacre
thomas prescott
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He was the first man killed at the boston massacre
Crispus Attucks
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He owned the ship Liberty that smuggled goods into boston
John Hancock
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He uncovered the British move to take Concorde
Joseph Warren
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British general that was placed in charge of boston
Thomas Gage
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His political ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence
John Locke
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He was in charge of the committee to write the Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin
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troops unfamiliar with the lay of the land
british
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good military leaders
american
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financing the war
british
80
home field advantage
american
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support of native americans
british
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a strong central government
british
83
an excellenet navy
british
84
a noble and true cause
American
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He wrote The Southern Exposition of Protest
John C Calhoun
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He developed the concept of interchangeable parts
eli Whitney
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" The union, next to our liberty most dear"
John C Calhoun
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Which was not a characteristic of the transcendentalism movement
Emphaiss on an Elaborate lifestyle
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Which was not a slave code
They could testify in court
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What was the total number of confederate states that seceded from the union
11
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where were the first shots fired that began the civil war
Fort Sumter
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What are the four border states
Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Delware
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What slaves were set free by the emancipation proclomation
Slaves in states that were still in a state of rebellion against the Union
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Who was the union general that was the commander in the west and won the battle at fort donelson
Ulysses S Grant
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Which union general engineered the infamous "March to the Sea" and employed the concept of total war
William Sherman
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Which battle was the bloodiest single day of the civil war
Antietam
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What was president lincolns primary objective during the civil war
To save the unon
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which is not true about habeas corpus
it required the authorities to bring a person in jail to court and be charged with a crime
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What was a Copperhead during the Civil war
It was a northern Democrat that advocated tpeace with the South during the civil war
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What southern men were exempt from the draft during the civil war
Any planter with 20 or more slaves
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where did the march to the sea occur
Atlanta to Savannah
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Where did Generla Lee surrender to Generla Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
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which amount most closely represents the total number of dead during the civil war
600,000
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What was the line said by john wilks booth
sic semper tyrannis
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which amendment freed the slaves
13

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