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15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture

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American Pageant Chapter 15
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Questão 1

Questão
As embraced by many of the founding fathers; Deism:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

Questão
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the Second Great Awakening?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

Questão
The term "Burned-Over District" refers to
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

Questão
The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was
Responda
  • 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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

Questão
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
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

Questão
One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 16

Questão
Why was there a lag in founding women's colleges and other secondary institutions until after the 1820s?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 17

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 18

Questão
What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 19

Questão
Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered from most men , the pre-Civil War women's movement failed to make large gains because?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

Questão
Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 24

Questão
The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s
Responda
  • 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

Questão 25

Questão
Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormans aroused hostility from many Americans because of:
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 26

Questão
The Seneca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

Questão
The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the idea of:
Responda
  • 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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

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

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