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What is considered the third revolution in the United States during the 19th Century? |
The deeply felt commitment to improve the character of ordinary Americans, to make them more upstanding, God-fearing, and literate. |
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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson mean by “there was not “a reading man” who was without some scheme for a new utopia in his “waistcoat pocket”? |
That every read man had a plan for a utopian society in the United States from socialism to free will living. |
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville say about the United States and the Christian religion in the early 19th Century? |
“no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America |
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Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason (1794) is the best example of which type of religion? |
Deist |
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What did Thomas Paine reject in his Book The Age of Reason (1794)? |
Denied the concept of original sin and denied Christ’s divinity. |
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What did Thomas Paine believe concerning God? |
As a Deist he believed in a Supreme Being who had created a knowable universe and endowed human beings with a capacity for moral behavior. |
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Which religion during the 2nd Great Awakening (1800 – 1840) believed that God existed in only one person and not in the orthodox Trinity? |
Unitarians |
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Who did the religion in question #7 appeal to most?Intellectuals whose rationalism and optimism contrasted sharply with the hellfire doctrines of |
Calvinism |
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How was the 2nd Great Awakening spread across the United States? |
"camp meetings", tent revivals |
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Although the author down played the importance of “getting religion” what were some of the consequences of the 2nd Great Awakening? |
Boosted church membership, stimulated a variety of humanitarian reforms such as: Temperance movement, suffrage movement, abolitionist movement (leading to the Civil War). Religion will be instrumental in most every Civil Rights movement. |
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Which two small religious sects reaped the most abundant harvest of souls during the 2nd Great Awakening? |
Methodists and Baptists |
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What was a “circuit rider”? |
Traveling frontier preacher |
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According to the textbook, who was the greatest of the revival preachers of the 2nd Great Awakening? |
Charles Grandison Finney |
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What movements came out of the 2nd Great Awakening which will lead to a change in the United States Constitution? |
Abolitionists and Temperance |
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Which amendments to the Constitution were added because of the movements discussed in #14? |
13, 14, 15, 18 |
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What role did women play in the 2nd Great Awakening? |
They formed a host of benevolent and charitable organizations and spearheaded crusades for most, if not all, of the era’s ambitious reforms. |
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Where was the “Burned-Over District” located? |
New England |
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What group in the “Burned-Over District” believed that Christ was coming back on October 22, 1844—and they still exist today? |
Adventists |
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According to the text, what were the stages of secession in the United States? |
First the churches split, then the political parties split, and then the Union split. |
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Which 2nd Great Awakening religious movement would be considered the Desert Zion in Utah? |
Mormons |
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Who created the religious movement in question #20? |
Joseph Smith |
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Who would be considered the Moses of that religious movement by moving the group to Utah? |
Brigham Young |
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What happened to the creator of that religious movement? |
Was killed along with his brother in Carthage, Illinois |
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How did this religious group upset many Americans on their way to Salt Lake City, Utah? |
Voting as a unit, openly drilling a militia for defensive purposes, and polygamy |
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Which foul saved this religious group by devouring hoards of crickets in 1848? |
Sea Gull |
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When did Utah finally become a state? |
1896 |
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What took so long for statehood? |
They refused to give up polygamy |
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What happened at the Mountain Meadows massacre September 11, 1857? |
A group traveling from Arkansas to California were massacred by LDS and American Indians (120 total, 17 children were spared). |
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What great accomplishment took place during the Jacksonian period for suffrage (sorry ladies, it’s not you?) |
Gain in manhood suffrage for whites |
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What did Jefferson believe about an uneducated nation? |
“A civilized nation that was both ignorant and free, never was and never will be.” |
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What was Horace Mann’s great accomplishment during the mid-19th Century? |
Better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers and an expanded curriculum. |
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What was Noah Webster’s contribution to education? |
His speller |
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What higher educational goals were accomplished during the 2nd Great Awakening? |
Small, denominational, liberal arts colleges in the South and West. |
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First college in the colonies? |
University of Virginia |
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Who is considered the father of this university? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Which training facility will open it doors in 1821 to women, with the help of Emma Willard? |
Troy Female Seminary located in Troy, New York |
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What college will be established in Ohio in 1837 educating women and black students? |
Oberlin college |
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What was the lyceum movement? |
A group of speakers who talked on such subjects as science, literature, and moral philosophy |
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What were some of the reasons for the creation of the Temperance movement? |
Heavy drinking decreased the efficiency of labor, and increased the danger of accidents occurring at work. It also fouled the sanctity of the family. |
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This Temperance movement was founded in Boston in 1826? |
American Temperance Society |
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What was “teetotalism” after? |
Total elimination of intoxicants |
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Which state will be the first to pass a law prohibiting the sale and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor? When? |
Maine Law 1851 |
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The home was the centerpiece of a woman’s special sphere according to this doctrine of the early 19th Century. |
Cult of domesticity |
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These two woman will be the spearhead for the feminist movement in the mid-19th Century. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
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These sisters will become famous for championing antislavery. |
Sarah and Angelina Grimké |
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What meeting will be held in New York State in 1848 and was most memorable as the first Woman’s Rights Convention? What declaration comes out of this convention? (favorite test question) |
Seneca Falls Convention; Declaration of Sentiments |
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The woman’s rights movement will take a back seat to which campaign in the mid-19th Century? |
Anti-slavery movement |
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What movement was started at Brook Farm in Massachusetts in the mid-19th Century? |
Transcendentalism |
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Why was the Oneida Community a more radical experiment than Brook Farm? |
It practiced free love, birth control and eugenic selection of parents to produce superior offspring. |
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This group of religious leaders were lead by Mother Ann Lee, and prohibited both marriage and sexual relations?This man will chronicled the birds of America? |
John Audubon |
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This plague in 1793 in Philadelphia took several thousand lives where you saw, “Bring out your dead!” as the daily cry. |
Small pox |
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Who’s religious doctrine said: “I spirit With me never shall stay, We-spirit Makes us happy and gay”? |
Oneida Community |
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What was the name of Thomas Jefferson’s home in Virginia? |
Monticello |
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Why was Charles Wilson Peale famous in the early 19th Century? |
His painting of Washington |
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What type of art did the Hudson River school promote? |
Human landscapes to romantic mirroring of local landscapes. |
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What famous author published the Knickerbocker’s History of New York in 1809? |
Washington Irving |
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This famous author wrote about the French and Indian war in The Last of the Mohicans? |
James Fenimore Cooper |
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Which theory did transcendentalists reject? |
John Locke’s theory that knowledge comes to the mind through the senses. |
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Who will be the best-known transcendentalists in the mid to late 19th Century? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Name some of the other writers of the transcendentalist movement. |
Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman |
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Henry David Thoreau’s books influenced this persons to fight against the British in India in the early 20th Century? |
Mahatma Gandhi |
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Why was Henry David Thoreau jailed in the 1850’s? |
Failure to pay the poll tax |
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What was Henry David Thoreau response to Ralph Waldo Emerson question: “Why are you here?” |
Why are you not here? |
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This professor will eventually write the famous poem about Paul Revere. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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What famous book will Louisa May Alcott pen in 1868? |
Little Women |
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This author penned such books as “The Raven”, “The Gall of the House of Usher”. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
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What was Nathaniel Hawthorne most famous book from 1850? |
The Scarlet letter |
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Herman Melville penned this novel which was difficult for most to read particularly for its length. |
Moby Dick |
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Place the following in Chronological Order: Lyceum movement flourishes, Jefferson founds University of Virginia, Hawthorne Publishes The Scarlet Letter, Joseph Smith founds Mormon Church, Second Great Awakening begins, Melville publishes Moby Dick. |
Second Great Awakening, Jefferson founds University of Virginia, Joseph Smith and Mormon Church, Lyceum movement, Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter, Melville publishes Moby Dick |
