15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture

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American Pageant Chapter 15
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Pregunta 1

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As embraced by many of the founding fathers; Deism:
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  • emphasized that a person's fate was predestined and known only by God.
  • was rooted in strict adherence to the Bible
  • celebrated God's hand in the daily workings of the world
  • stressed that God created the world but trusted the moral capacity of human beings to run it.

Pregunta 2

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The Second Great Awakening reversed the trends toward religious indifference and rationalism of the late eighteenth century.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 3

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Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Second Great Awakening?
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  • It was a religious movement that led to the reorganization of many existing churches and the founding of new sects
  • It drew new converts from massive camp or revival meetings
  • It had its greatest appeal to men, who made up the majority of new religious adherents.
  • It inspired several reform movements

Pregunta 4

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The Mormon church migrated to Utah to escape persecution and to establish a tightly organized cooperative social order without persecution.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 5

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The term "Burned-Over District" refers to
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  • parts of western New York that were inundated with preachers lecturing hellfire and damnation.
  • factory districts in New England that were ravaged by fires in the early 1800s
  • sections of the frontier that were overwhelmed with multiple revivals
  • regions of New England that were overcrowded, overgrown, and increasingly run down.

Pregunta 6

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Women achieved equality with men in higher education before the Civil War
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 7

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Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the West and South were:
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  • Lutherans and Catholics
  • Methodists and Baptists
  • Quakers and Seventh Day Adventists
  • Congregationalists and Unitarians

Pregunta 8

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The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was
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  • a major missionary effort directed at converting African American slaves
  • the organization of the churches to lobby for the abolition of slavery.
  • an agreement to keep political issues like slavery out of the religious area
  • a split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches

Pregunta 9

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Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism.
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 10

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Who founded the Mormon religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?
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  • Brigham Young
  • Joseph Smith
  • Charles Finney
  • Peter Cartwright

Pregunta 11

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The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free public education for all American children was
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  • Mary Lyons
  • Horace Mann
  • Noah Webster
  • Susan B. Anthony

Pregunta 12

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The 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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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 13

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Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of:
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  • women's right to higher education and voting
  • antislavery
  • better treatment of the mentally ill
  • temperance

Pregunta 14

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Most early American communal experiments involved attempts to create a perfect society based on brotherly love and communal ownership of property
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 15

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One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was
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  • the cult of domesticity that sharply separated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace
  • women's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights
  • the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities
  • the widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men.

Pregunta 16

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Why was there a lag in founding women's colleges and other secondary institutions until after the 1820s?
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  • Secondary education for women was against the law in many states.
  • People feared that education would make women unfit for marriage
  • There was discomfort with the idea of women and men in similar institutions.
  • Education women was against many religious principles

Pregunta 17

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Although 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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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 18

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What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?
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  • The rise of the universal suffrage movement
  • The beginning of the abolition movement
  • The advent of the women's rights movement
  • The start of a dress reform crusade

Pregunta 19

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Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men , the pre-Civil War women's movement failed to make large gains because?
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  • it was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement
  • women were unable to establish any effective organization to advance their cause.
  • most ordinary women could not see any advantage to gaining equal rights.
  • it became bogged down in pursuing trivial issues like changing women's fashions.

Pregunta 20

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Most early American imaginative writers and historians came from the Midwest and the South
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  • True
  • False

Pregunta 21

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Many of the American Utopian experiments of the early 19th century focused on:
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  • communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements
  • temperance and diet reforms
  • advanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming
  • doctrines of transcendental meditation

Pregunta 22

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Which of the following were NOT among the many Utopian communities that sprang up in the early to mid-nineteenth century?
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  • Oneida
  • Brook Farm
  • Quakers
  • Shakers
  • New Harmony

Pregunta 23

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Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to:
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  • the construction of large church buildings throughout the Midwest
  • the expansion of American political power across the continent
  • the Christian reform of social problems
  • the organization of effective economic development and industrialization.

Pregunta 24

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The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s
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  • celebrated the power of the individual spirit
  • embraced the communal influences of the church and other institutions
  • put the greater good ahead of the individual's needs
  • argued that laws and government were the key to social order

Pregunta 25

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Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormans aroused hostility from many Americans because of:
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  • their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism
  • the political ambitions of their leaders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
  • their populous settlement in Utah, which posed a threat of a break-away republic in the West
  • the efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism.

Pregunta 26

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The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for:
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  • equal pay for equal work
  • an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
  • equal rights, including the right to vote
  • access to public education for women

Pregunta 27

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Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were:
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin
  • Sarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams
  • Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson

Pregunta 28

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The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the idea of:
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  • inner truth and individual self-reliance
  • political community and economic progress
  • personal guilt and fear of death
  • love of chivalry and return to the medieval past

Pregunta 29

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All of the following American authors celebrated the human potential for goodness and progress in their work EXCEPT:
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  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Edgar Allen Poe

Pregunta 30

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Who is considered the "father of American history"
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • William Prescott
  • George Bancroft
  • Herman Melville
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