ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY
Homework Assignment
The American Renaissance

Directions:  Answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses must be either typewritten or hand-written in black or blue ink.

PART ONE:

1.       Why was individualism so deeply rooted in different aspects of American social reform?

2.       Compare the roles of women in Shaker communities and in John Humphrey Noyes's Oneida Community.

3.       How did the Mormons differ from other communalist experiments?

4.       Compare and contrast William Lloyd Garrison's ideas on the Constitution with James Birney's beliefs.

5.       Why did northern abolitionists encounter so much opposition?

6.       How did the abolition movement lead to the struggle for women's rights?

PART TWO:

1.    Read An Illinois “Jeffersonian Attacks the Mormons  in your text, and answer the following questions:

The Mormons moved west in 1839 and established a settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. In a few years, immigration made Nauvoo one of the largest cities in the region. Mormon leadership exerted theocratic rule over the town and the people. From the start, the Mormons were unwelcome neighbors, and frictions between them and American "gentile" settlers increased.

a.      What are the writer's political objections to the Mormons' activities?

b.      Does he charge the Mormon leadership with any crime?

c.       Condemning the Mormons' "high-handed outrages," what is the author's remedy to the friction between Mormons and non-Mormons in Illinois?