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Deists

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included Founding Fathers such as Jefferson and Franklin

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Universalists believed that:

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everyone could be saved

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The rapidly growing church that broke away from Anglicanism in the 1780s was the ______ church.

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Methodist

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A minister on horseback who travelled the frontier to preach was called

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a circuit rider

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Which Protestant denomination "stressed the equality of all before God” and had no authority higher than the congregation?

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Baptist

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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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Joseph Smith:

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founded the Mormon Church in western New York

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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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How did American literature develop during the half decade between 1850 and 1855?

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This era witnessed an outpouring of extraordinary literature by an array of authors who became giants of American literature

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Which of the following individuals was NOT considered an American literary giant?

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Brigham Young

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Which of the following statements is true about the number of newspapers in the United States by 1850?

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The United States had more newspapers than any other nation in the world.

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By the 1840s, newspapers:

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skyrocketed in circulation

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In 1840, American literacy rates:

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were the highest in the Western world

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Why did workers 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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In 1840, most colleges:

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were affiliated with churches

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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 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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Why was John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the Oneida Community, arrested and ultimately forced to flee New York?

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He advocated 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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One reason the American Colonization Society acquired the land in West Africa that eventually became the country of Liberia was:

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the Society saw it as a place to transport potentially troublesome free blacks and freed slaves

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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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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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George Fitzhugh's major pro-slavery argument was that:

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southern slavery was better for workers than the "wage slavery" of northern industry