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An Age of Reform (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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"Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren,"

Motto of The North Star, founded by Frederick Douglass, December 3, 1847

The excerpt from The North Star most directly reflects which of the following ideas of the abolitionist movement?

  • The idea that Black Americans should establish separate communities rather than integrate into American society

  • The argument that gradual emancipation was preferable to immediate abolition

  • The belief that abolitionism should be a racially inclusive cause advocating for universal human rights

  • The belief that slavery should be restricted to the Deep South but not fully abolished

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"Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren,"

Motto of The North Star, founded by Frederick Douglass, December 3, 1847

The excerpt from The North Star best reflects which of the following developments in antebellum reform movements?

  • The push for temperance laws to restrict alcohol consumption

  • The growing women’s rights movement and activism 

  • The religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening

  • The growing nativist opposition to European immigration

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"Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren,"

Motto of The North Star, founded by Frederick Douglass, December 3, 1847

The abolitionist beliefs outlined by The North Star oppose which of the following American Colonization Society’s strategies? 

  • Raising public awareness of the issues of slavery 

  • The call for immediate abolition and full rights for Black Americans

  •  Lobbying influential politicians to gain support for abolition 

  • The promotion of voluntary Black emigration to Liberia

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Vintage illustration titled "The Progress of Intemperance" showing a family in the countryside, with adults and children looking distressed and impoverished.
N. Currier, The ruined family. Plate IV. From The Progress of Intemperance series, 1841

 In this picture the artist had the goal of 

  • Promoting moral purity as part of the First Great Awakening  

  • Encouraging the restriction or banning of alcohol consumption  

  • Highlighting the struggles of immigrant families in urban areas

  • Advocating for compulsory education for children in the United States

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Vintage illustration titled "The Progress of Intemperance" showing a family in the countryside, with adults and children looking distressed and impoverished.
N. Currier, The ruined family. Plate IV. From The Progress of Intemperance series, 1841

The Seneca Falls Convention would strongly support this image as

  • Women were disproportionately affected by alcohol abuse in their homes and sought legal protections

  • The temperance movement and women’s rights movement were both rooted in religious revivalism and moral reform

  • The temperance movement was primarily supported by female abolitionists who saw alcohol as a moral failing

  • Women’s rights advocates were primarily concerned with property and legal rights

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Vintage illustration titled "The Progress of Intemperance" showing a family in the countryside, with adults and children looking distressed and impoverished.
N. Currier, The ruined family. Plate IV. From The Progress of Intemperance series, 1841

The most direct consequence of this image was the

  • Webb-Kenyon Act 

  • Volstead Ac

  • 18th Amendment  

  • Maine Law of 1851

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