Please choose one of the following questions to answer: 1.  What accounts for the proliferation of rural utopian communities in nineteenth-century America? 2.  Why did women take such a prominent role in the reform movement? 3.   How did the abolitionists’ proposals and methods differ from those of earlier antislavery movements? Why did those proposals and methods arouse such hostility in the South and in the North? 4. How would you explain the large and expanding domestic trade in slaves between 1800 and 1860? What combination of factors produced this result? .

1. Please choose one of the following questions to answer:
1.
What accounts for the proliferation of rural utopian
communities in nineteenth-century America?
2. Why did women take such a prominent role in the reform
movement?
3.
How did the abolitionists’ proposals and methods differ from
those of earlier antislavery movements? Why did those
proposals and methods arouse such hostility in the South and in
the North?
4. How would you explain the large and expanding domestic
trade in slaves between 1800 and 1860? What combination of
factors produced this result?