The ideas that all souls are equal in salvation and everyone can be saved by surrendering to God is called:
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equality under God's Law
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spiritual egalitarianism
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Question 2
The advances of the Market and Transportation Revolutions allowed for the growth of transatlantic reform movements because:
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improved transportation connected people in the US as well as in Europe.
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improved printing technology allowed reformers to reach a larger audience.
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the invention of the radio allowed for print-less dissemination of information .
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Question 3
The involvement of women in the social reform movements of the 1820s-1830s was seen as acceptable because:
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they had been given the right to vote in 1820.
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women had proven their "worthiness" for an increased public role after serving as soldiers during the War of 1812.
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this type of activism was seen as a logical progression from their "motherly" duties of protecting virtue and providing spiritual guidance to their children.
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Question 4
Which of the following statements is true about US Indian Policy during the 1820s-1830s?
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The US government removed the Cherokee despite the fact that they had embraced assimilation by adopting a written language and a tribal constitution based on the US Constitution.
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None of the social reform movements born out of the Second Great Awakening tried to protect Indian rights.
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The Supreme Court ruled that individual states had sovereignty over the Indian tribes living inside their state borders.
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White Americans universally supported Indian removal.
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Question 5
The abolitionist movement splintered in the 1830s because:
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disagreement on whether or not abolition could be accomplished through the US political system due to the belief that the Constitution was pro-slavery.
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resentment that arose after women were elevated to leadership positions inside the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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violent attacks by opponents of abolition in the North and South.
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Question 6
The four million enslaved people in the U.S. South in 1860 represented ____ percent of the total population.
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Question 7
Which of the following statements is true about land prices in Mississippi in the decades leading up to the U.S. Civil War?
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Land purchased for $600 in 1835 could be sold for as much as $3,000 in 1850. Speculation in land made real estate values volatile.
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Land purchased for $600 in 1835 could be sold for as much as $100,000 in 1850. Speculation in land made real estate values volatile.
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There was so much land, and it was so variable that it is difficult to say with any certainty what real estate values looked like at the time.
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Land prices declined. The agrarian South was not able to compete with the industrial North.
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Question 8
By 1860, cotton alone accounted for __ percent of the total U.S. exports for the year.
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Question 9
Among enslaved southerners, family and kinship networks served to maintain ____.
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Question 10
In his 1785 Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson expressed support for emancipation if:
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it was gradual and owners were compensated.
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freed people were colonized in another country because he feared vengeance in the form of a war of "extermination" if they were not.
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freed people were colonized in Liberia.
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it took place only in the North.
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