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15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture

Question 1 of 30

1

As embraced by many of the founding fathers; Deism:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 2 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 4 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 30

1

The term "Burned-Over District" refers to

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 6 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 30

1

Two denominations that became the dominant faith among the common people of the West and South were:

Select one of the following:

  • Lutherans and Catholics

  • Methodists and Baptists

  • Quakers and Seventh Day Adventists

  • Congregationalists and Unitarians

Explanation

Question 8 of 30

1

The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 9 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 30

1

Who founded the Mormon religion (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)?

Select one of the following:

  • Brigham Young

  • Joseph Smith

  • Charles Finney

  • Peter Cartwright

Explanation

Question 11 of 30

1

The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of free public education for all American children was

Select one of the following:

  • Mary Lyons

  • Horace Mann

  • Noah Webster

  • Susan B. Anthony

Explanation

Question 12 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 13 of 30

1

Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of:

Select one of the following:

  • women's right to higher education and voting

  • antislavery

  • better treatment of the mentally ill

  • temperance

Explanation

Question 14 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 15 of 30

1

One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth-century America was

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 16 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 17 of 30

1

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.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 30

1

What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 19 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 20 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 30

1

Many of the American Utopian experiments of the early 19th century focused on:

Select one of the following:

  • communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements

  • temperance and diet reforms

  • advanced scientific and technological ways of producing and consuming

  • doctrines of transcendental meditation

Explanation

Question 22 of 30

1

Which of the following were NOT among the many Utopian communities that sprang up in the early to mid-nineteenth century?

Select one of the following:

  • Oneida

  • Brook Farm

  • Quakers

  • Shakers

  • New Harmony

Explanation

Question 23 of 30

1

Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 24 of 30

1

The transcendentalist movement of the 1830s

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 25 of 30

1

Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormans aroused hostility from many Americans because of:

Select one of the following:

  • 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.

Explanation

Question 26 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 27 of 30

1

Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were:

Select one of the following:

  • Sarah Orne Jewett and Kate Chopin

  • Sarah Grimke and Susan B. Anthony

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe and Abigail Adams

  • Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson

Explanation

Question 28 of 30

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 29 of 30

1

All of the following American authors celebrated the human potential for goodness and progress in their work EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • Louisa May Alcott

  • Henry David Thoreau

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Edgar Allen Poe

Explanation

Question 30 of 30

1

Who is considered the "father of American history"

Select one of the following:

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • William Prescott

  • George Bancroft

  • Herman Melville

Explanation

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