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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.
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was rooted in strict adherence to the Bible
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celebrated God's hand in the daily workings of the world
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stressed that God created the world but trusted the moral capacity of human beings to run it.
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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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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
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It drew new converts from massive camp or revival meetings
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It had its greatest appeal to men, who made up the majority of new religious adherents.
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It inspired several reform movements
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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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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.
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factory districts in New England that were ravaged by fires in the early 1800s
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sections of the frontier that were overwhelmed with multiple revivals
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regions of New England that were overcrowded, overgrown, and increasingly run down.
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Women achieved equality with men in higher education before the Civil War
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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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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
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the organization of the churches to lobby for the abolition of slavery.
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an agreement to keep political issues like slavery out of the religious area
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a split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches
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Many early American reformers were middle-class idealists inspired by evangelical Protestantism.
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Who founded the Mormon religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?
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Brigham Young
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Joseph Smith
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Charles Finney
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Peter Cartwright
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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
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Horace Mann
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Noah Webster
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Susan B. Anthony
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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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Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of:
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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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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
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women's primary involvement in a host of causes other than that of their own rights
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the prohibition against women's participation in religious activities
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the widespread belief that women were morally inferior to men.
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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.
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People feared that education would make women unfit for marriage
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There was discomfort with the idea of women and men in similar institutions.
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Education women was against many religious principles
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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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What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?
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The rise of the universal suffrage movement
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The beginning of the abolition movement
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The advent of the women's rights movement
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The start of a dress reform crusade
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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
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women were unable to establish any effective organization to advance their cause.
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most ordinary women could not see any advantage to gaining equal rights.
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it became bogged down in pursuing trivial issues like changing women's fashions.
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Most early American imaginative writers and historians came from the Midwest and the South
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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
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temperance and diet reforms
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advanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming
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doctrines of transcendental meditation
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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
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Brook Farm
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Quakers
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Shakers
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New Harmony
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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
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the expansion of American political power across the continent
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the Christian reform of social problems
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the organization of effective economic development and industrialization.
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The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s
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celebrated the power of the individual spirit
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embraced the communal influences of the church and other institutions
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put the greater good ahead of the individual's needs
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argued that laws and government were the key to social order
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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
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the political ambitions of their leaders Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
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their populous settlement in Utah, which posed a threat of a break-away republic in the West
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the efforts to convert members of other denominations to Mormonism.
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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
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an equal rights amendment to the Constitution
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equal rights, including the right to vote
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access to public education for women
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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
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Sarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams
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Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson
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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
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political community and economic progress
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personal guilt and fear of death
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love of chivalry and return to the medieval past
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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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Who is considered the "father of American history"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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William Prescott
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George Bancroft
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Herman Melville