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History 1301 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Graded A Missouri Compromise ✔✔"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state... and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states. Cotton Gin ✔✔A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 Paternalism ✔✔A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights. Educational Reform ✔✔Leaders: Horace Mann and Massachusetts Board of Education. Pushed for public schools to "shape youth into desired citizens" Women's Rights Movement/Reform ✔✔Movement that worked for greater rights and opportunities for women. Began with the Seneca Falls Convention in New York in 1848. Women worked for rights like suffrage (the right to vote), equality in clothing, and property rights; wives regarded as companion instead of property; promote value of women in the home Utopian Communities ✔✔An ideal society. Some Americans concluded that society had corrupted human nature so they decided to form a separate ideal society. The Shakers were a religious group that established utopian communities. The society believed in social and spiritual equality for all of its members. They did not believe in marrying or having children, the group could only expand by making converts or taking in orphans. Strict abstinence to alcohol, and behavior regulated by church. Asylum Reforms ✔✔Insane treated at home or in closed environment like state supported mental hospital Jail Reforms ✔✔Large number of crim [Show More]

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