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15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture
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1As embraced by many of the founding fathers; Deism:
- Aemphasized that a person's fate was predestined and known only by God.
- Bwas rooted in strict adherence to the Bible
- Ccelebrated God's hand in the daily workings of the world
- Dstressed that God created the world but trusted the moral capacity of human beings to run it.
2The Second Great Awakening reversed the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the late eighteenth century.
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3Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Second Great Awakening?
- AIt was a religious movement that led to the reorganization of many existing churches and the founding of new sects
- BIt drew new converts from massive camp or revival meetings
- CIt had its greatest appeal to men, who made up the majority of new religious adherents.
- DIt inspired several reform movements
4The Mormon church migrated to Utah to escape persecution and to establish a tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution.
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5The term "Burned-Over District" refers to
- Aparts of western New York that were inundated with preachers lecturing hellfire and damnation.
- Bfactory districts in New England that were ravaged by fires in the early 1800s
- Csections of the frontier that were overwhelmed with multiple revivals
- Dregions of New England that were overcrowded, overgrown, and increasingly run down.
6Women achieved equality with men in higher education before the Civil War
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7Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the West and South were:
- ALutherans and Catholics
- BMethodists and Baptists
- CQuakers and Seventh Day Adventists
- DCongregationalists and Unitarians
8The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was
- Aa major missionary effort directed at converting African American slaves
- Bthe organization of the churches to lobby for the abolition of slavery.
- Can agreement to keep political issues like slavery out of the religious area
- Da split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches
9Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism.
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10Who founded the Mormon religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?
- ABrigham Young
- BJoseph Smith
- CCharles Finney
- DPeter Cartwright
11The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free public education for all American children was
- AMary Lyons
- BHorace Mann
- CNoah Webster
- DSusan B. Anthony
12The key role of women in American reform movements was supported by a growing "feminization" of the churches that spawned many efforts at social improvement
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13Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of:
- Awomen's right to higher education and voting
- Bantislavery
- Cbetter treatment of the mentally ill
- Dtemperance
14Most early American communal experiments involved attempts to create a perfect society based on brotherly love and communal ownership of property
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15One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was
- Athe cult of domesticity that sharply separated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace
- Bwomen's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights
- Cthe prohibition against women's participation in religious activities
- Dthe widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men.
16Why was there a lag in founding women's colleges and other secondary institutions until after the 1820s?
- ASecondary education for women was against the law in many states.
- BPeople feared that education would make women unfit for marriage
- CThere was discomfort with the idea of women and men in similar institutions.
- DEducation women was against many religious principles
17Although transcendentalism rejected most American materialism and focus on practical concerns, transcendentalism strongly reflected American individualism, love of liberty, and hostility to formal institutions and authority.
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18What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?
- AThe rise of the universal suffrage movement
- BThe beginning of the abolition movement
- CThe advent of the women's rights movement
- DThe start of a dress reform crusade
19Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men , the pre-Civil War women's movement failed to make large gains because?
- Ait was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement
- Bwomen were unable to establish any effective organization to advance their cause.
- Cmost ordinary women could not see any advantage to gaining equal rights.
- Dit became bogged down in pursuing trivial issues like changing women's fashions.
20Most early American imaginative writers and historians came from the Midwest and the South
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21Many of the American Utopian experiments of the early 19th century focused on:
- Acommunal economics and alternative sexual arrangements
- Btemperance and diet reforms
- Cadvanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming
- Ddoctrines of transcendental meditation
22Which of the following were NOT among the many Utopian communities that sprang up in the early to mid-nineteenth century?
- AOneida
- BBrook Farm
- CQuakers
- DShakers
- ENew Harmony
23Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to:
- Athe construction of large church buildings throughout the Midwest
- Bthe expansion of American political power across the continent
- Cthe Christian reform of social problems
- Dthe organization of effective economic development and industrialization.
24The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s
- Acelebrated the power of the individual spirit
- Bembraced the communal influences of the church and other institutions
- Cput the greater good ahead of the individual's needs
- Dargued that laws and government were the key to social order
25Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormans aroused hostility from many Americans because of:
- Atheir cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism
- Bthe political ambitions of their leaders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
- Ctheir populous settlement in Utah, which posed a threat of a break-away republic in the West
- Dthe efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism.
26The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for:
- Aequal pay for equal work
- Ban equal rights amendment to the Constitution
- Cequal rights, including the right to vote
- Daccess to public education for women
27Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were:
- ASarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin
- BSarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony
- CHarriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams
- DLouisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson
28The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the idea of:
- Ainner truth and individual self-reliance
- Bpolitical community and economic progress
- Cpersonal guilt and fear of death
- Dlove of chivalry and return to the medieval past
29All of the following American authors celebrated the human potential for goodness and progress in their work EXCEPT:
- ALouisa May Alcott
- BHenry David Thoreau
- CHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- DEdgar Allen Poe
30Who is considered the "father of American history"
- ARalph Waldo Emerson
- BWilliam Prescott
- CGeorge Bancroft
- DHerman Melville
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