Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform – Flashcards
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Deists:
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included Founding Fathers such as Jefferson and Franklin
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Unitarianism stressed:
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reason and conscience
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Universalists believed that:
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everyone could be saved
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Why were working-class people attracted to Universalism?
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It stressed the possibility of salvation of all people
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One significant factor that inspired the Second Great Awakening was:
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rising fears of secularism among many well-educated Americans
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Which Protestant denomination stressed the equality of all before God and had no authority higher that the congregation?
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Baptist
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A minister on horseback who traveled the frontier to preach was called a(n):
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circuit rider
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African Americans found the Methodist and Baptist churches especially attractive because of their:
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belief in salvation for all
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Which of the following was associated with the Second Great Awakening?
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the popularity of camp meetings
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Why might women be drawn to camp meetings?
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They provided women with opportunities to participate as equals in public rituals
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The burned-over district was:
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western New York
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Which of the following is NOT true of Charles Finney?
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He was an active Universalist preacher
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Joseph Smith:
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founded the mormon church in western New York
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All of the following are reasons Mormons generated hostility from non-Mormons EXCEPT:
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they denied they were christians
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Brigham Young:
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led the Mormons to Utah
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The rise of Romanticism indicated:
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recognition of the limits of science and reason
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Which statement best describes the Transcendental Club, which had it's first meeting in the 1830s?
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a loosely knit group of diverse, intellectually curious individualists who met to discuss philosophy, religion, and literature
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Who was considered the leader of transcendentalism?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why did the working poor often favor expanding the number of public schools?
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Workers wanted free schools to give their children an equal chance to pursue the American dream
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The Southern state that by 1860 had done the most to advance public education was:
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North Carolina
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For all their differences, the variety of reform movements that arose in the united states during the first half of the nineteenth century had what in common?
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an impulse to perfect people and society
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The American Temperance Union lost many moderate members in 1836 when it:
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called for abstinence for all alcoholic beverages
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Regarding the penitentiary established in 1816 at Auburn, New York, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:
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it was an institution that primarily emphasized punishment
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Prison reformers of the early 1800s saw a major objective of the penitentiary as:
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rehabilitation
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Dorothea Lynde Dix directed her reform efforts at:
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insane asylums
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The woman who wrote the profoundly influential A Treatise on Domestic Economy was:
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Catharine Beecher
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The "cult of domesticity" was the idea that:
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a woman's place is in the home
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The Seneca Falls Convention:
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demanded equal rights for women
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Members of the Shaker community:
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practiced celibacy and owned everything in common
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Mother Ann Lee was:
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the founder of the Shakers
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Why was John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, arrested and ultimately forced to flee New York?
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He advocated for complete sexual freedom
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All of the following are true of Brook Farm EXCEPT:
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it was long lasting
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Most of the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century:
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quickly became failures
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All of the following statements about the American Colonization Society are true EXCEPT:
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free black leaders supported it
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Why did the American Colonization Society acquire the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia?
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The society saw it as a place to transport free blacks and fretted slaves
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William Lloyd Garrison:
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demanded immediate emancipation of slaves
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Why did the American Anti- slavery Society split into competing factions?
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some prominent members demanded the pursuit of societal reforms beyond abolition, including women's rights
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Frederick Douglass:
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wrote a famous account of his life as a slave
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The Liberty party advocated:
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abolitionism
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All of the following are true about Sojourner Truth, EXCEPT that she:
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killed her master to escape from slavery
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The killing of Elijah Lovejoy showed:
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that support of slavery extended into the North
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Southerners used all of the following to justify slavery EXCEPT:
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Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence
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By the 1830s, John C. Calhoun was arguing that:
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slavery was a "greater good"
