Chapter-13- An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, And Reform
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- 1.Deism was heavily influenced by
- A.
Timothy Dwight's revivalism
- B.
Enlightenment rationalism
- C.
Transcendentalism
- D.
Emerson and Thoreau
- 2.Charles G. Finney
- A.
Focused on group conversion decisions to avoid the loneliness of single acts
- B.
Taught that regeneration was a change from selfishness to universalism
- C.
Eventually became president of Harvard College
- D.
Grew up in a very religious home
- 3.By 1850 the largest Protestant denomination in the nation was the
- A.
Mormons
- B.
Methodists
- C.
Unitarians
- D.
Baptists
- 4.An intense expression of romantic ideals, transcendentalism drew from
- A.
The rationality of deism
- B.
Both the Unitarians and the Universalists
- C.
The moralism of Puritanism
- D.
All of the above
- 5.The American "intellectual Declaration of Independence" was
- A.
Emerson's "The American Scholar"
- B.
Thoreau's "Self - Reliance
- C.
Hawthorne's Moby Dick
- D.
Whitman's Leaves of Grass
- 6.Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" in reaction to
- A.
Slavery and the abolitionist movement
- B.
The coming of the Civil War
- C.
The Second Great Awakening
- D.
The Mexican War
- 7.The inventor of the detective story was
- A.
Herman Melville
- B.
Edgar Allen Poe
- C.
Emily Dickinson
- D.
Walt Whitman
- 8."If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," said
- A.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- B.
Henry David Thoreau
- C.
Herman Melville
- D.
Walt Whitman
- 9.The popular press expanded in the antebellum period primarily because of
- A.
The invention of the telegraph
- B.
Better writers
- C.
Advances in printing technology
- D.
Increasing literacy rates in the south
- 10.To promote social stability and equal opportunity, Horace Mann was a leader in promoting
- A.
Personal salvation during the Second Great Awakening
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An end to slavery
- C.
Public schools
- D.
Moderation in the consumption of alcohol
- 11.The most widespread reform movment of the antebellum era probably was the
- A.
Temperance crusade
- B.
Promotion of public education
- C.
Abolitionism
- D.
Effort to establish utopian communities
- 12.Prison reformers wanted prisons to
- A.
Punish prisoners severely
- B.
Rehabilitate prisoners
- C.
Remove criminals permanently from society
- D.
Make a substantial profit
- 13.The organized movement for women's rights had its origins in
- A.
The Second Great Awakening
- B.
The lyceum movement
- C.
Transcendentalism
- D.
A split in the antislavery movement
- 14.The first organized meeting for women's rights occurred at
- A.
Auburn, New York
- B.
New Harmony, Indiana
- C.
Oneida, New York
- D.
Seneca, Falls, New York
- 15.The New Harmony community was based on
- A.
Christian religious values
- B.
The doctrine of "complex marriage"
- C.
Cooperative ownership
- D.
All of the above
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